17 Oct 2012
Stuart MacDonald joins Aquila Capital as managing director
Alternative investment manager Aquila Capital has appointed Stuart MacDonald as managing director to assist in developing Aquila’s growing…
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Global Farming Index feeds hungry and generates returns, says Indixis
Investment into global farm production has not only generated high returns for investors over the past year, but will be increasingly…
NYSE Euronext and Taiwan Futures Exchange to connect trading communities
NYSE Euronext and the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore bilateral business…
16 Oct 2012
EXANTE Hedge Fund Index top performers revealed
St Julians, Malta, 15 October, 2012 – Hedgeweek, the hedge fund industry’s leading news portal, has just released a special report “EXANTE…
ICAP and Rapid Ratings launch credit derivatives service
Interdealer broker and provider of post trade and information services ICAP has launched a joint credit derivatives rating service with…
SS&C launches GoTrade+
SS&C Technologies, a provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, has launched GoTrade+, a flexible…
Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index up 1.04 per cent in September
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished up 1.04 per cent for the month of September. Eight of the 10 strategies recorded…
Barclay CTA Index down 0.69 per cent in September
Managed futures lost 0.69 per cent in September, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge.The index remains up 0.51 per…
2100 Xenon management team to acquire equity interest held by OMAM
2100 Xenon Group, an affiliate of Old Mutual Asset Management (OMAM), is to acquire the majority ownership interest in its business from…
Real asset investors look to hedge funds for supply, says Gamma Finance
Gamma Finance, a provider of advisory services to the alternative investment sector, has been awarded advisory mandates of USD500m by…
Official gold estimates are GBP560m too high, says James Turk
James Turk, an authority on precious metals, has published a report for the GoldMoney Foundation saying the Thomson Reuters GFMS official…
PSAM’s Sayed cautiously optimistic on European M&A deal flow as ECB moves to stabilise markets
By James Williams – "As an Eads board member, I am deeply disappointed the politicians were not persuaded by the industrial logic of this…
15 Oct 2012
ASIC challenges Wellington Capital’s distribution of ARL shares
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has started proceedings in the Federal Court in Sydney challenging whether Wellington…
Spirit of entrepreneurism delivers cumulative returns of 480%
“I like to describe ourselves at Platinum Partners as entrepreneurial traders. We select and promote entrepreneurs who have an…
The emergence of electronic gold…?
“I hope our fund will be the first hedge fund to take advantage of using Bitcoins,” explains Anatoliy Knyazev in Moscow. One of Exante’s…
