29 Sep 2010
Quintillion to administer Paris Capital fund
Quintillion fund administration has been chosen to provide administration services to the fund managed by Paris Capital, the Paris Capital…
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IGEFI rebrands as Multifonds
IGEFI, a provider of multi-jurisdictional, single-platform fund administration software, has rebranded as Multifonds.Oded Weiss, chief…
28 Sep 2010
Comment: The Mexican standoff in European credit: Bears vs Bullls
The Mexican standoff that has been brewing in the European credit markets seems to be heading towards a showdown as the bulls jostle with…
UCITS come to the fore
Advent Software has issued a white paper on UCITS titled, UCITS Come to the Fore: Opportunities and Challenges for the Funds Industry. This…
Moelis acquires investment manager Gracie Credit
Investment bank Moelis is acquiring the management companies of Gracie Credit, a multi strategy credit manager. The acquisition will expand…
New Forests launches the Australia New Zealand Forest Fund
New Forests, an investment management firm specialising in timberland and associated eco products, has closed the largest timberland fund…
27 Sep 2010
Managed account boom shows few signs of slackening
Driven principally by demand from investors for greater transparency and liquidity of their investments, the growth of investment in hedge…
Operational best practice for investors
Following the financial turbulence, institutional and other investors increasingly began to investigate managed accounts as a solution to…
New solutions on transparency
Gottex Solutions Services was established to service the needs of the Gottex group’s fund management arm, Gottex Fund Management, for risk…
Northern Trust transitions Signina Capital funds to Luxembourg domicile
Northern Trust is transitioning hedge funds, funds of funds and single funds managed by Signina Capital from offshore domiciles to…
The changing face of managed accounts
Hedge fund managed account platforms were around long before the current boom in interest from investors began in the wake of the…
Surge in platform options opens up investor choice
The surge of interest in managed accounts over the past two years has opened up the market to third-party investment platforms offered by…
The global route to daily NAVs
One of the key reason investors seek managed accounts is that they want transparency and liquidity, so service providers must be able to…
Meeting the system challenges of SMAs
The past two years have seen a surge in the number of institutional investors seeking to access hedge fund strategies through separately…
Dutch hedge funds gain 0.3 per cent in August
Dutch hedge funds, as measured by the Finles/IEX Hollandse hedge fund index, advanced by 0.3 per cent in August. The index outperformed the…
