09 Mar 2012
NYSE Euronext Global Derivatives ADV down 21% year-on-year
NYSE Euronext’s global derivatives average daily volume (ADV) of 7.0 million contracts in February 2012 represented a decrease of 21.4%…
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CFTC charges John David Stroud and companies with commodity pool fraud
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed an enforcement action in the US District Court for the Middle District of…
Delegation raises Guernsey’s funds profile in Moscow
A delegation from Guernsey has been in Moscow to raise the Island’s profile as an international investment funds centre.The team was led by…
FATCA Regulations Released – Lifting the burden or just the beginning?
By Debbie Payne and Gary Burr of PricewaterhouseCoopers – On 8 February 2012, the US Department of Treasury and IRS issued long-awaited…
08 Mar 2012
Value Partners bolsters China presence with 49 per cent acquisition of KBC Goldstate
Value Partners Group (806:HK), one of Asia’s largest independent asset managers with approximately USD7.7billion in assets as at 31 January…
Asian ex-Japan hedgies up over eight per cent YTD
Asian hedge funds continue to surge ahead as they attempt to eradicate last year’s losses.PARA_BREAK_SENTINEL_9f8e7d6cAsian hedge funds…
Asian hedge fund startups struggling to reach critical mass
Asia-focused hedge funds that launched post financial crisis are shutting as they struggle to compete for, and raise new capital from a…
Goldstream pan-Asian multi-strategy fund to launch in April
A former managing director at Standard Chartered and derivatives trader Yiming Liang, and the former chief investment officer of…
Gibraltar expects to benefit from recent changes to SIF regulation in Luxembourg
Gibraltar could benefit from a change to Luxembourg law, which has slowed down the launch of specialised investment funds in the Grand…
Hedge funds post best start to year since 2000
Hedge funds posted their strongest start to a calendar year since 2000, with significant contributions from strategy areas which…
Structured finance attorney Mulligan joins Kleinberg Kaplan
Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen has appointed Howard Mulligan as Of Counsel in the Corporate Department. Mulligan is an experienced…
Newedge announces three senior appointments to prime clearing services (PCS) team
Newedge has made three senior appointments in the Alternative Investment Solutions (AIS) division of its Prime Clearing Services (PCS)…
Agecroft Partners wins Best Hedge Fund Third Party Marketing Firm for 5th year in a row
Agecroft Partners, the hedge fund consulting and third party marketing firm, was recognized by Hedgeweek as the winner of the “2012 Best…
Point Nine migrates Merchant Capital’s UCITs umbrella to Circle.2
Merchant Capital, the independent corporate finance and investment management firm, has migrated its UCITS umbrella to Point Nine’s…
07 Mar 2012
The Gargoyle Group launches market neutral hedge fund
The Gargoyle Group has launched a new fund it believes to be the industry’s first market neutral fund to hedge with a continually-monitored…
