28 Jan 2014
2014 – The regulatory quagmire continues
By Dermot Butler, President, Custom House Group – In a weak moment I agreed to a request to write this paper, giving my predictions on the…
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FSMLabs launches TimeKeeper Cloud on AWS Marketplace
FSMLabs’s TimeKeeper Cloud is now available on AWS Marketplace. FSMLabs provides customers using TimeKeeper Cloud on Amazon Web Services…
Kinetic Partners enhances corporate recovery offering with senior hire in New York
Kinetic Partners has recruited Kent McParland as a director within the corporate recovery practice in the firm’s New York office.Brought on…
Abacus Group forms partnership with Global Relay
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, has formed a partnership with Global Relay, a…
NYSE Liffe to launch futures on MSCI Factor Indices
NYSE Liffe is to expand its index derivatives franchise with the launch of futures based on MSCI Factor Indices.NYSE Liffe expects to…
State Street opens alternative investment solutions office in Shanghai
State Street has opened an office in Shanghai which will provide alternative investment servicing solutions to support the firm’s hedge…
S&P 500 weeklies options establish consecutive daily volume records at CBOE
Trading volume in S&P 500 Index (SPX) Weeklys options totalled an estimated 747,616 contracts last week, an all-time daily volume…
AIFMD: make sure you’re connected
Using an AIFMD compliant depositary network offers a range of benefits to support private equity and real estate fund managers.The…
27 Jan 2014
Independent Directors: Considerations and Queries
Picking the right independent director is not as simple as you might think. Geoff Ruddick of International Management Services (pictured)…
Euronext launches single stock futures
Euronext has launched an enlarged suite of single stock futures on a range of its most liquid Euronext listed stocks. The launch enhances…
Cayman insolvency petitions on the rise
Insolvency petition filings in the Cayman Islands spiked more than 30 per cent in 2013 when compared with 2012, resulting in the highest…
S&P Dow Jones Indices and CBOE conclude ISE index litigation
The International Securities Exchange (ISE) has not appealed a federal court decision that rejected ISE's attempt in the New York courts to…
Fortress launches affiliated manager platform
Fortress is launching an affiliated manager platform as part of the firm's growth strategy in the liquid alternative investment space.The…
Gazprombank Asset Management launches its first UCITS fund… ML Capital’s Barometer report finds three times more interest in market neutral funds in Q1…
Global and US long/short equity strategies would appear to be the top two most favoured strategies among investors in Q1 according to the…
Union Bancaire Privée increases assets under management by 10 per cent
Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) has reported a 10 per cent year-on-year rise in its assets under management to CHF87.7bn (USD98.6bn) as at 31…
