02 Jun 2015
Hedge funds should do well in H2 2015 on the back of renewed market momentum
Equity-focused hedge fund strategies are making good gains in 2015 and despite momentum slowing down in April and May, should be well…
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Indian and Brazilian growth figures likely to prompt easing
Craig Botham, Emerging Markets Economist at Schroders comments on the latest GDP figures from India and Brazil…"Surprising first quarter…
Wilshire Consulting names Steven J Foresti as CIO
Wilshire Consulting, the institutional investment advisory and outsourced-CIO business unit of Wilshire Associates Incorporated, has named…
BNP Paribas Securities Services completes acquisition of Prime Fund Services
BNP Paribas Securities Services has completed the acquisition of Credit Suisse’s Prime Fund Services (PFS) business, a provider of fund…
01 Jun 2015
Weekly Brief: Merger arbitrage cheers M&A spree
The current year is on track to be the best year for M&A ever. Since the beginning of the year, global M&A volumes have reached…
SWFs set to allocate more to global real estate
By James Williams – Sovereign Wealth Funds are showing a lot of appetite for real estate assets as total AUM in this segment of the…
The USD1bn Club: Largest investors in hedge funds
Following on from last week’s extract from the Preqin Hedge Fund Spotlight | May 2015, which focused on the largest hedge fund managers in…
State Street appoints hedge fund veteran Effie Datson
State Street Corporation has appointed Effie Datson as global head of product for its Alternative Investment Solutions division. Datson’s…
MKO rebrands as EisnerAmper Ireland
Irish accountancy firm MKO is joining with US accountancy firm, EisnerAmper, to form a new global network called EisnerAmper Global. MKO…
Ankur Crawford joins Patrick Kelly as Portfolio Manager on Alger SICAV
Fred Alger Management, Inc., a leading asset management firm, announced today that Ankur Crawford, PhD, is joining Patrick Kelly, CFA as…
iPass reaches settlement agreement with hedge funds over board composition
iPass Inc has reached an agreement with Maguire Asset Management, Francis Capital Management, Foxhill Opportunity Fund. and their…
Hedge fund Whitebox Advisors selects Options as managed IT provider
Options, the leading managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has today announced that…
29 May 2015
Advances in alternative energy create investment opportunities, says Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management
An energy evolution is underway, with alternative energy quickly becoming a more widely accepted reality in the sector, creating new…
Liquid alts can help investors “de-risk" portfolios, says Forward
If investors want to benefit from sophisticated risk management and asset allocation tools like those used by major institutional…
Peter Weinberg Joins Steben & Company as Head of Investor Relations & Marketing
Steben & Company has appointed Peter Weinberg as Head of Investor Relations & Marketing."The success we have had with our funds…
