European Distribution for Hedge Funds

Swiss family offices are changing their attitudes on outsourcing back office custody and fund administration operations to specialist providers. A study undertaken »

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Caisse d'Epargne and Crédit Agricole are combining their securities services businesses into CACEIS (Crédit Agricole-Caisse d'Epargne Investor Services). The final agreement allowing the Cai »

Fortis has decided to merge all its offshore and onshore fund servicing activities under a single group, Fortis Prime Fund Solutions. In practical terms, this means »

BNP Paribas Asset Management is acquiring FundQuest Inc., one of the leading turnkey asset managers in the United States with USD 10 billion AUM. FundQuest, founded in 1993 in Boston, Massac »

Pension funds globally invested over USD 62 billion in alternative asset classes during 2004, according to a new survey by Watson Wyatt. The survey, conducted in c »

New York-based FoHF manager Cadogan Management LLC has opened an office in London, with James Wilmot-Smith joining as Managing Director. Cadogan has USD 1.6 billion »

UK pension funds and other institutions are increasingly awakening to the diversification benefits of hedge funds, according to a new report by UBS. The detailed re »

Man Investments' asset management performance fees fell to USD 119 million from USD 236 million for the year ended 31 March 2005. Man stated that the drop in perfor »

BNP Paribas Asset Management is looking to develop its "high alpha" bond management activity with the appointment of Nicolas Chaput. BNP Paribas already h »