05 Jun 2007
Cumulus appoints director of meteorology and climate research
PCE Investors has appointed Dr Warwick Norton as director of meteorology and climate research to work on the Cumulus Weather and Cumulus…
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Group G Capital Partners appoints head of marketing
Group G Capital Partners, a New York-based investment manager specialising in alternative investment strategies, has appointed Alyson…
US Futures Exchange to list credit derivative futures on Federal Agency debt
The US Futures Exchange has announced plans to list the first credit derivative futures on Federal Agency debentures, beginning with a…
04 Jun 2007
The fund industry that came in from the cold
Long overshadowed by the sheer scale of the islands' corporate domicile and administration business, the funds industry in the British…
The BVI raises its international profile
The success of the British Virgin Islands hedge fund industry in recent years can be measured by the fact that it has now overtaken Bermuda…
Surging fund business brings new opportunities for administrators
The decision of Citco to shift its hedge fund administration work from the British Virgin Islands to Curaçao around the turn of the…
Service providers take on growth challenge
The fund administration industry in the British Virgin Islands has recently experienced considerable growth.The fund administration…
Developing the right fund environment
The BVI International Financial Centre was created as a department of the British Virgin Islands government to market and promote the…
Pioneer Diversified High Income Trust launches common shares on Amex
Shares of the Pioneer Diversified High Income Trust, a diversified, closed-ended investment company that aims primarily to provide its…
Democrat candidates take lion's share of hedge fund campaign contributions
Candidates vying for the Democratic Party nomination for next year's US presidential election have taken around three-quarters of the…
RAB Capital names Osman Shafi as head of fixed income sales
London-based absolute return investment manager RAB Capital has appointed Osman Shafi, who was previously was instrumental in the…
01 Jun 2007
Merrill Lynch takes minority stakes in hedge fund managers
Merrill Lynch has added to its minority stakes in hedge fund management firms by acquiring within the space of a few days non-controlling…
Partners Group wins USD200m investment for hedge fund replication programme
Investment in Partners Group's proprietary Alternative Beta Strategies now exceeds USD1bn following a USD200m investment in the hedge fund…
Comment: An apocalyptic turn for hedge funds?
Shoham Cohen, co-founder of Singapore-based hedge fund service provider ESC Financial Services, argues that recent criticism of the…
Man Group assets soar to more than USD65bn
The assets under management of Man Group, the world's largest publicly traded hedge fund manager, rose by 24 per cent to USD61.7bn in the…
