23 Jun 2011
SFC to challenge Tiger Asia court ruling
The Hong Kong SFC has lost round one in the legal challenge to ban New York-based hedge fund, Tiger Asia Management LLC, from trading in…
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Da Vinci Capital Management selects Quintillion
Quintillion has been chosen to provide administration services to the Da Vinci CIS Opportunities Fund. The Cayman based hedge fund, which…
Comment: Dodd-Frank registration deadline extended by SEC
Andrew Shrimpton, member at Kinetic Partners, on the extension of the deadline for SEC registration for Foreign Private Investors…The SEC…
Man launches first multi-strategy UCITS fund combining AHL and GLG strategies
Man Group plc has successfully launched the Man GLG Multi-Strategy fund – the first combined UCITS fund to result from Man’s acquisition of…
SEC adopts Dodd-Frank Act amendments to Investment Advisers Act
The Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted rules that require advisers to hedge funds and other private funds to register with the…
Conifer Group names Peter O'Connell as CFO
The Conifer Group, LLC (Conifer), a provider of fund administration, middle office, trading and prime brokerage services to the hedge fund…
Strong growth in new fund launches signals excellent start to 2011 for Jersey’s funds industry
The principal sectors of Jersey’s finance industry showed strong growth in the first three months of 2011, with rises in new fund launches…
22 Jun 2011
Kinetic Partners strengthens compliance services offer with appointment of Huby
Kevin Huby has been appointed a Member at Kinetic Partners to focus on building the firm’s risk management and remediation services. This…
‘Alternatives not so alternative any more’ says PerTrac’s Corvese
Hedgeweek spoke to Lisa Corvese, MD Global Product Marketing, PerTrac following the recent release of the company's eighth annual hedge…
Former Schottenfeld proprietary trader Gautham Shankar settles SEC insider trading charges
On 8 June, 2011, The Honourable Jed S Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a judgment…
JP Morgan to Pay USD153.6 Million to settle SEC charges of misleading investors
JP Morgan Securities LLC is to pay USD153.6 million to settle SEC charges that it misled investors in a complex mortgage securities…
JP Morgan launches full prime brokerage offering in Europe
JP Morgan has launched a full prime brokerage offering for clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The investment bank now has the…
Morningstar launches estimated quarterly returns for hedge funds
Morningstar, Inc has begun to calculate estimated returns for hedge funds based on publicly available filings. The company has estimated…
Swiss fund volumes down CHF11.8bn in June
As of the end of May 2011, the total volume of assets in the investment funds covered by the statistics compiled by Swiss Fund Data AG and…
Religare Global Asset Management appoints Alan Berkshire as President – North America
Religare Global Asset Management (RGAM), a wholly owned subsidiary and the multi-boutique asset management arm of integrated financial…
