10 Oct 2011
Dutch Financial Alternatives Community raises more than EUR80.000 for better education for children in Timbuktu and Bangalore
On 6 October over 170 professionals from the Dutch financial alternatives community came together to show their support for the fund…
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Dexia’s Luxembourg businesses on the block
Troubled Franco-Belgian bank Dexia is set to sell various wealth management and investment-related businesses based in Luxembourg or…
07 Oct 2011
Guernsey hosts fund event to boost cooperation with Luxembourg
A team from Guernsey’s fund industry hosted an event in Luxembourg last month aimed at boosting cooperation between the two jurisdictions.…
Cantor Fitzgerald forms Cantor Private Markets
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co, has expanded its private securities business with the formation of Cantor Private Markets Group, offering…
Dow Jones Credit Suisse Core Hedge Fund Index fell 4.23% in September
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Core Hedge Fund Index saw less than half of the declines seen in broad equity indexes in September.…
06 Oct 2011
INTECH introduces absolute volatility equity strategies
INTECH Investment Management LLC (INTECH) has launched a suite of absolute volatility equity strategies, offering institutional investors…
LCH.Clearnet to accept gold as collateral
LCH.Clearnet Ltd is to extend the range of eligible collateral types to include gold bullion by the end of October 2011, subject to final…
BoE restarts quantitative easing
Azad Zangana (pictured), European Economist at Schroders, on the Bank of England's decision to restart quantitative easing…“The Monetary…
GLG Ore Hill raises USD200m for Credit Mandate
GLG Ore Hill, a credit-focused, event-driven hedge fund and structured product manager based in New York, has raised USD200 million for a…
05 Oct 2011
Brown Advisory to launch new long/short fund
Brown Advisory, an independent investment management firm with approximately USD25 billion in client assets, has added a new mutual fund,…
SVP symposium sees wealth of distressed opportunities
Strategic Value Partners, LLC (SVP) held a symposium yesterday in London for European credit and distressed debt investors. Victor Khosla,…
BlueBay launches private lending business led by Anthony Fobel
BlueBay Asset Management Ltd, a leading specialist manager of fixed income and alternative investment products, has launched a Private…
Global investment banking fees on the up, says Thomson Reuters
Fees for global Investment Banking services, from M&A advisory to capital markets underwriting, totalled USD64.0 billion during the…
04 Oct 2011
Daiwa retains SAS 70 Type II report
Daiwa Securities Global Asset Services, the fund servicing arm of the Daiwa Securities Group has retained its Statement of Auditing…
Melchior European Fund to hard close at USD100m
Following a period of strong inflows, the Directors of the Melchior European Fund (MEF) have taken the decision to hard close the fund,…
