05 Aug 2010
Merlin launches enhanced performance reporting for hedge funds
Merlin Securities, a prime brokerage services and technology provider for hedge funds, managed account platforms and family offices, has…
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Gulf International Bank launches emerging market opportunities fund
Gulf International Bank (UK) has launched an Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund with assets of more than USD100m. The fund is a…
Pardus Capital Management adds head of portfolio risk
Pardus Capital Management, a New York-based alternative investment manager, has appointed Ali Mostafavee as head of portfolio risk and a…
Black Diamond expands controlled distressed/private equity team
Black Diamond Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm, has appointed Philip Raygorodetsky as managing director.…
GlobeOp assets under administration rise by ten per cent
GlobeOp Financial Services, a provider of business process outsourcing, financial technology services and analytics to hedge funds and…
Guernsey gets 'it': Ditching the domino and the Bilski bonus
In this article Elaine Gray (pictured), Partner in AO Hall – Legal Specialists, looks at a key opportunity offered by Guernsey’s new patent…
04 Aug 2010
Apex Fund Services opens its Luxembourg office
Apex Fund Services, a fund administration business, has opened its Luxembourg office.Apex will begin providing administration services from…
Deer Park appoints Scott Burg as associate portfolio manager
Deer Park Road, a registered investment adviser which invests in distressed mortgage and asset backed fixed income securities, has named…
Investors return to Asian hedge funds with focus on currency policy adjustments
Hedge fund investors developed a central focus on Chinese foreign exchange policy in quarter two 2010, as the Chinese central bank took…
Tradition’s biofuels desk closes the first ever rapeseed oil swap
Interdealer broker Tradition’s London-based biofuels desk closed the world’s first rapeseed oil swap between Totsa, based in Geneva, and a…
Hedge funds rebound to post strongest year-to-date returns in July
Returns for the Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Indices suggest that hedge funds produced positive returns across strategies in July…
Instinet launches dark liquidity pool for US listed options
Instinet, a provider of electronic trading and agency-only brokerage services, has launched Instinet Options CBX, a dark liquidity pool for…
John Cashwell and Eric Storch join GSO Capital
GSO Capital Partners, the credit arm of The Blackstone Group, has appointed John Cashwell and Eric Storch as managing directors and…
Court of Appeal overturns judgements in Lehman client money case
The Court of Appeal has handed down its judgment on the appeals made against Justice Briggs’ judgments in an application for directions…
Alter Domus opens an office in Singapore
Alter Domus, an independent provider of outsourced administration services to multinationals and alternative investment funds, has opened…