05 Jan 2011
Byron Wien's ten surprises for 2011
Blackstone Advisory Partners vice chairman, Byron R Wien, has issued his 26th annual list of 'surprises' for the coming year. The first…
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Eze Castle expands west coast team
Eze Castle Integration has expanded its West Coast team with the addition of Regional Service Director Michael (Mike) Hartig (pictured) and…
Nicolas Wirz joins Oddo & Cie as MD of Oddo Securities
Oddo & Cie's Executive Committee has appointed Nicolas Wirz (pictured) as Managing Director of Oddo Securities.Wirz replaces…
Insch relocates to Zug
Insch Capital Management has opened new offices and relocated the domicile of the firm to the Swiss canton of Zug. Over the last several…
Deutsche Bank launches prime services app for iPad and iPhone
Deutsche Bank’s Global Prime Finance business has launched GlobalPrime Mobile, a Prime Services mobile application for the iPad and…
Agecroft Partners sees strong trends in hedge fund capital raising for 2011
Agecroft Partners predicts 2011 will be a very good year for flows into the hedge fund industry, despite the recent negative publicity…
04 Jan 2011
Mindy M Posoff elected to HighMark Funds' board of trustees
Mindy M Posoff, president of Traversent Capital Partners in Philadelphia, has been elected to HighMark Funds' seven-strong board of…
Total trading volume at Eurex Group hits 2.64 billion contracts in 2010
The international derivatives markets of Eurex Group ended 2010 with a turnover of approximately 2.64 billion contracts, compared with 2.65…
NYSE announces Q1 2011 circuit-breaker levels
The New York Stock Exchange will implement new circuit-breaker collar trigger levels for first-quarter 2011 effective Monday, January 3,…
BVI introduces Public Funds Code 2010
Following the enactments of the Securities and Investment Business Act, 2010 (SIBA) and Mutual Funds Regulations, 2010, the BVI Financial…
03 Jan 2011
BVI FSC forms Securities, Investment Business & Mutual Funds Advisory Committee
The British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC) has formed the Securities, Investment Business and Mutual Fund Advisory…
Abad and companies to pay over USD860,000 to settle commodity pool fraud action
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has obtained more than USD860,000 in restitution and civil monetary penalties in a…
31 Dec 2010
Bermuda updates investment fund regulation
Bermuda's new Investment Funds Amendment Act 2010, which received the assent of the Governor General on 22 December and amends the…
30 Dec 2010
Alternative funds lawyer awarded landmark decision by European Court of Justice
Robert Koller, an Austrian citizen, who completed law degrees in both Austria and Spain, has been awarded a landmark decision in a dispute…
Investor confidence index rises to 104.4 in December
Global investor confidence rose 8.0 points in December according to figures released by State Street Global Markets. The State Street…