07 Jan 2015
Global venture capital financing up 58% in 2014
The amount of capital invested by venture capital fund managers in young companies reached USD87bn in 2014, over 58% more than the capital…
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Consensus amongst hedge fund managers may lead to investment shocks in 2015
The world's hedge fund have a benign attitude towards 2015 market conditions and the investment outlook for the year ahead despite a…
06 Jan 2015
Top HF industry trends for 2015
Each year Agecroft Partners leverages its contact with more than two thousand institutional investors and hundreds of hedge fund…
Majority of investors see Eurozone QE programme in 2015
Nearly two thirds (64%) of investors believe that the European Central Bank will implement quantitative easing before the end of next year,…
02 Jan 2015
Total trading volumes of Eurex/TAIFEX Link surpasses 200,000 contracts.
From the launch date of 15 May 2014 to 17 December 2014, the total trading volume of Eurex listed Daily Futures on TAIEX Futures (TX) and…
19 Dec 2014
Cayman Islands funds
By Chris Humphries, Managing Director, Stuarts Walker Hersant, Attorneys-at-Law – The Cayman Islands continues to be the leading offshore…
Cayman structures compliment AIFMD funds
In 2011, ahead of the introduction of the AIFMD in Europe, an article entitled “A foot in both camps”, was written by Derek Delaney,…
Cayman begins to see a rise in hybrid funds
UBS Fund Services has had one of its strongest years in terms of winning new clients according to Monette Windsor (pictured), who heads up…
Championing the emerging manager
Derek Adler (pictured) ACSI is a director and founder member of International Financial Administration Group (‘Ifina’), which has now been…
Cayman fund managers prepare for FATCA
After signing Model 1 inter-governmental agreements (IGA) with both the US and the UK in November 2013, in July 2014 the Cayman Islands…
Recent trends in corporate governance
By Giorgio Subiotto (pictured) & Shameer Jasani, Ogier – We have witnessed a clear evolution in how the composition of boards of…
Perfect partnerships – Singing the praises of Cayman Islands ELPs
By Nicholas Butcher, Maples and Calder – Cayman Islands exempted limited partnerships (“ELPs”) are currently riding the crest of a wave.…
Split boards favoured as fund governance intensifies
On 6 December 2013, after a period of consultation with industry practitioners, the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) – the Islands’…
17 Dec 2014
Global investors raising cash while cutting commodity allocations, says BoAML fund manager survey
Global investors are keeping faith with equities while raising cash as markets enter the volatile year-end period, according to the BofA…
16 Dec 2014
2015 credit outlook for bond funds remains stable, says Moody’s
Moody's Investors Service outlook for the credit quality of bond funds remains stable reflecting issuers' creditworthiness underpinned by…
