Alpha Real Capital, the international real estate funds manager, has appointed former Close Investments and Tritax director Anthony Wyld as marketing director of Alpha Real Property Investment Advisers - a newly-created role in which he will report to managing director Nigel Ashfield.

Wyld joins from Tritax, where he was head of marketing. Prior to this, he was marketing director at Close Investments and, from 1999, managing director of Close Property Investment.

In his role at Alpha Real Capital he will be responsible for the relaunch of the recently-acquired Close property funds under the Alpha Real Capital brand. Close Asset Management agreed to the sale of its property fund management business to Alpha Real Capital late last year.