27 Sep 2009
One in five investment professionals to leave UK due to high tax
One-fifth of investment professionals are considering leaving the UK to work elsewhere in the next 12 months, primarily due to the high…
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25 Sep 2009
Comment: Plus ça change
For years commentators have confidently been forecasting that the days of the two-and-twenty model of hedge fund fees were numbered. As the…
Markets vulnerable if banks buy shares with bailout cash, says Moonraker
Moonraker Fund Management, an independent investment boutique, is concerned that banks may have been using their bailout money to buy…
Gravitas launches fractional CIO offering for hedge funds
Gravitas Technology, a technology and solution provider to alternative investment and financial services companies, has launched The…
Auerbach Grayson expands German market coverage via DZ Bank
Auerbach Grayson, a New York-based brokerage firm that specialises in providing global trade execution and exclusive research to US…
24 Sep 2009
Lanterne wins best long short and absolute return fund award
Lanterne Strategic Investors Arran Fund has won the award of best long short and absolute return fund at the fifth annual Australian Hedge…
Yorkville Advisors invests USD15m in United Fiber System
Yorkville Advisors, a US based investment manager to a family of funds, has invested USD15m into United Fiber System through the…
Court issues orders against four “Operation Wooden Nickel” defendants
US District Court Judge George Daniels of the Southern District of New York has entered four separate orders stemming from an investigation…
TradingScreen launches TradeSmart X
TradingScreen, a provider of execution management systems, has launched TradeSmart X, the next generation version of its multi-broker…
Irish Stock Exchange revises listing rules
The Irish Stock Exchange has published a series of revisions to its listing rules, which are effective from 24 September 2009. Kinetic…
Gavin St Pier to chair Mercator
Gavin St Pier, a leading figure in the fiduciary and professional services sector, has taken up the role of non-executive chairman at The…
NYSE Euronext’s US options penny pilot expansion filing is approved
NYSE Euronext’s proposal for the expansion of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s penny pilot programme, filed by NYSE Arca options,…
Preliminary injunction issued against Beau Diamond and Diamond Ventures
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has obtained a preliminary injunction against defendants Beau Diamond and his company, Diamond…
Portfolio management to play pivotal role as FoHF industry consolidates
Portfolio management technology will play a pivotal role in facilitating consolidation in the fund of hedge funds industry, a trend that is…
Equity market neutral strategy may act as diversifier across market cycles
The equity market neutral strategy is a potential diversifier given the low beta it showed to the 2008 equity markets in what was a…
