23 Dec 2015
Raising assets in Japan
Japan is host to some of the largest pools of institutional investment assets in the world. It ought to be a magnet for asset managers of…
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Global hedge funds should start a charm offensive to help improve investor understanding
It all started so well. In February 2015, hedge funds posted their highest monthly gains (+2.13 per cent) for two years and there was an…
Vineer Bhansali launches new asset management firm and portfolio manager
Vineer Bhansali has formed LongTail Alpha, a new investment management advisory firm that will provide qualified investors with the…
CFTC and Hong Kong SFC sign MoU on supervision of cross-border regulated entities
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Timothy Massad has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Hong Kong…
Grand Court of the Cayman Islands orders re-payment of redemption payments to failed Weavering hedge fund
The Grand Court of the Cayman Islands has ordered that redemption payments made to an investor of the failed Weavering Macro Fixed Income…
Best wishes for 2016 from the Global Fund Media team
The Global Fund Media newsletter team is taking its customary year-end break, and will resume business as usual on Monday 4 January.We will…
22 Dec 2015
Organisations should apply a cyber lens to everything they do, says EY survey
Ernst & Young’s Global Information Security Survey 2015, entitled ‘Creating Trust in the Digital World’ provides a comprehensive…
New Pershing white paper looks at the evolution of fixed income trading
The fixed income business is in a state of transition with existing electronic venues and a plethora of new platforms trying to get a…
Royce to reopen Royce Premier and Special Equity Funds
Royce & Associates is reopening the Royce Premier and Special Equity Funds to new investors as of Monday, 4 January.Chuck Royce and…
Neptune extends fixed income pre-trade information network
Neptune, the open standards network utility for pre-trade indications in bond markets, is continuing to expand its business to the wider…
Oversight of the derivatives market clearly 'not a priority'
The failure to provide the CFTC even a modest increase in the fiscal year 2016 budget agreement sends a clear message that meaningful…
21 Dec 2015
SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator at 4.98 per cent in December
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for December 2015 measured 4.98 per cent, up from 4.90 per cent in November.“SS&C…
Weekly Brief: Implications for hedge funds after the Fed lift-off
For the first time in almost a decade, the Fed has finally hiked rates as the FOMC decided that the US growth/ inflation mix was robust…
JPMorgan Chase Bank to pay USD100m to settle CFTC charges of failing to disclose conflicts of interest
JPMorgan Chase Bank (JPMCB) is to pay USD100 million to settle US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charges that it failed to…
Cadwalader names five new partners
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has appointed attorneys Andrew Alin, Dorothy D Mehta, Joseph V Moreno, Bonnie A Neuman and Amy W Ray to…
