30 Sep 2009
South Florida Hedge Fund Managers hosts forum on clearing OTC products
South Florida Hedge Fund Managers, a regional alliance dedicated to informing and uniting the hedge fund community, is hosting a forum on…
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Lyxor adds nine hedge funds to managed account platform
Lyxor Asset Management has added an additional nine hedge funds to its managed account platform since January 2009.Over the same period,…
Eraam launches Pure Alpha
Eraam, a French alternative, multi-management company dedicated exclusively to European-based hedge funds, has launched Eraam Pure Alpha.…
Source’s assets reach USD2.2bn
Source, a provider of exchange-traded products, says total assets in its range of products have reached USD2.2bn (EUR1.5bn). Source’s new…
29 Sep 2009
SecondMarket to provide Dow Jones with bankruptcy-related data
SecondMarket, a marketplace for illiquid assets, has entered into an agreement with Dow Jones to provide bankruptcy claims trading data for…
US short oil fund launched on NYSE Arca
The United States Short Oil Fund, an exchange-traded security designed to inversely track in percentage terms the movements of crude oil…
Mereor selects Imagine Software for risk and portfolio management
Paris-based Mereor Investment Management and Advisory has chosen Imagine Software’s internet-based Derivatives.com service. The new…
Traditional approach to private wealth management misguided, says Edhec
Suitable extensions of portfolio optimisation techniques used by institutional investors can be transposed to private wealth management,…
Fortress International forms alliance with Carlisle Management
Fortress International Fund has entered into an alliance with Carlisle Management, which is to become the investment adviser to all of…
28 Sep 2009
York and BofA Merrill Lynch launch event-driven Ucits fund
York Capital Management and Bank of America Merrill Lynch have launched the York Event-Driven Ucits Fund, offering access to York's…
Ernest Pittarelli, chief operating officer of Sailfish Capital, dies at 56
Ernest “Ernie” Pittarelli, chief operating officer of Sailfish Capital Partners, died on 24 September at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York…
Man Research and Oxford-Man Institute expand into new premises
Man Research Laboratory and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance have opened larger premises in Jericho, Oxford.AHL’s…
27 Sep 2009
One in five investment professionals to leave UK due to high tax
One-fifth of investment professionals are considering leaving the UK to work elsewhere in the next 12 months, primarily due to the high…
25 Sep 2009
Comment: Plus ça change
For years commentators have confidently been forecasting that the days of the two-and-twenty model of hedge fund fees were numbered. As the…
Markets vulnerable if banks buy shares with bailout cash, says Moonraker
Moonraker Fund Management, an independent investment boutique, is concerned that banks may have been using their bailout money to buy…
