Edison Investment Research has hired a new finance director and added two new members to its London-based analyst team. Tom Carless has been appointed as finance and operations director. He previously worked at 7 city, a specialist financial training firm. Will Forbes has been added to the oil and gas analyst team. He previously worked at Arc Asset Management, Millennium Capital Partners and Credit Suisse. Zsolt Mester has been appointed to the institutional team. He was previously an equity research analyst at Sanford C Bernstein, where he analysed Spanish and Italian banks.