02 Sep 2009
Martin Currie expands hedge funds business
Martin Currie Investment Management has expanded its hedge fund business with the appointment of Alastair Barrie as global head of hedge…
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J.P. Morgan offers third party clearing on SmartPool
J.P. Morgan's GlobeClear business is offering third party clearing and settlement services for trades executed on the SmartPool and NYSE…
BlueMountain Capital Management adds four credit analysts
BlueMountain Capital Management has expanded its fundamental credit research team with the hiring of four credit research analysts.Led by…
01 Sep 2009
Australian absolute return funds post +4.51 per cent in July
Australia's equity-based absolute return funds posted positive performance for investors of 4.51 per cent for the month of July, taking…
S&P signs index licensing agreement with Saudi Stock Exchange
Standard & Poor's has signed an index creation agreement with the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul), which authorises Standard &…
Markit and DTCC launch MarkitServ
Markit and the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation have launched MarkitServ, a company that provides a single gateway for…
Malta seals place among Europe's leading fund jurisdictions
Over the past 15 years, the competition to attract cross-border fund business within the European Union and, more recently, to provide a…
Malta's time to shine
The globalised environment within which hedge funds operate has been characterised by a tumultuous stock market for the past 18…
The AIFM Directive and third country managers
Very few of us have not heard by now of the European Commission's draft Directive on Alternative Investment Fund managers published on…
Europe's new financial services gem
The past two years have brought about a sea change in the financial services industry, and the effect on financial centres as we know them…
Regulatory framework drives fund industry expansion
As part of its recent growth as a financial services centre, Malta has gained a strong reputation as an efficient fund domicile that…
Listing funds on the Malta Stock Exchange
While the Malta Financial Services Centre has been quite successful in attracting investment funds to Malta, particularly in the areas of…
Start-up funds warm to combination of quality and affordability
At a time when the certainty of hedge fund managers' fee income has been sharply called into question and managing costs has become a much…
PIF to Ucits: the Maltese conversion
In recent years, the number of collective investment schemes licensed by the Malta Financial Services Authority has grown in a rapid and…
Redomiciliation of investment funds into Malta
Regulations issued at the end of 2002 permitting the redomiciliation of companies into and out of Malta have had the effect of prompting a…
