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BTIG expands fixed income platform

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 16:49
BTIG, a broker dealer specialising in institutional trading and related brokerage services, has hired seven senior professionals in its fixed income group focusing on the areas of high yield/distressed, emerging markets and capital markets. »

Matrix Asia Fund expands team

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 16:03
Matrix Asia Fund has added Sam West to its team, joining Rupert Foster and David Peerless. »

NYSE to build technology solution for Asean exchange network

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 15:56
NYSE Technologies and four Asean equities exchanges – Bursa Malaysia, the Philippine Stock Exchange, Singapore Exchange and the Stock Exchange of Thailand – have signed a letter of intent that designates NYSE Technologies as the solutions provider for the Asean Trading Link. »

Prologue adds senior portfolio manager

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 15:32
Prologue Capital, an alternative investment firm that manages a discretionary fixed income strategy, has hired Noah Estrin as a senior portfolio manager focused on trading US agency mortgages. »

HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index down 0.71 per cent in January

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 14:15
The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index declined by 0.71 per cent in January after posting a gain of 20 per cent in 2009. »

Dutch hedge funds gain 11 per cent in 2009

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 12:02
Dutch hedge funds gained an average of 11 per cent in 2009, as measured by the Finles/IEX Dutch hedge fund index. »

Ziegler names Tom Paprocki chief executive

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 12:00
Ziegler has appointed Tom Paprocki as chief executive officer following the retirement of John Mulherin. »

Threat of regulation puts pressure on US CDS markets

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 11:38
The threat of increased regulation in the US financial services sector kept widening pressure firmly on US corporate credit default swap markets throughout the end of January, according to a report by GFI Group. »

BG Group: Production to grow 6 to 8% by 2020

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 11:30
A leading natural gas group has announced that it is to grow its production volumes at the maximum of its existing target range, which could interest hedge fund managers investing in this sector. »

Henrik Strabo joins Rogge Capital Management

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 10:28
Rogge Capital Management has appointed Henrik Strabo as a portfolio manager and director of global emerging markets. »

Hedge funds perform well amid business model changes

Mon, 08/02/2010 - 06:07
Fitch Ratings says the hedge fund industry performed well in quarter four 2009 and experienced a return of net new money inflows. »

Weathering the storm

Sun, 07/02/2010 - 18:59
By Michael Bane – Ernst & Young’s Partner and Channel Islands Asset Management Leader sumarises the results of the firm's annual global survey of the hedge fund industry »

UK 'draws in hedge funds looking at commercial property'

Sun, 07/02/2010 - 18:43
Hedge funds have been increasingly looking to the UK when investing in real estate, an expert has claimed. »

Aksia hires two for Americas advisory team

Sun, 07/02/2010 - 15:58
Aksia, a provider of hedge fund research and advisory services, has appointed Bruce Ruehl and Jaeson Dubrovay as partners in the Americas advisory team. »

Hedge funds 'could benefit from China's economic tightening'

Sun, 07/02/2010 - 13:40
The recent tightening of China's economic policy could present a good opportunity for hedge funds, it has been claimed. »

Highland closes CLO Value Fund I

Sun, 07/02/2010 - 12:07
Highland Capital Management, an investment management firm based in Dallas, Texas, has closed its CLO Value Fund I with a gross return of 138 per cent to its investors. »

CME achieves strongest quarterly performance of 2009 in Q4

Sun, 07/02/2010 - 10:25
CME Group has reported fourth quarter GAAP revenues of USD667m and GAAP operating income of USD402m.  »

Ignis and Castle Hill form partnership

Fri, 05/02/2010 - 06:16
Ignis Asset Management has entered into a partnership with Castle Hill Asset Management. »

Long/short equity top performing AI index in February

Fri, 05/02/2010 - 06:08
Long/short equity headed the list of investable Alternative Investment Indices in February, with a month-to-date performance of 0.37 per cent. »

One in ten hedge funds to change fund administrators this year

Thu, 04/02/2010 - 16:07
A recent survey by TKS Solutions has revealed that ten per cent of alternative investment funds have considered switching administrators during the past 12 months due to issues stemming from timeliness and accuracy of partner and shareholder accounting reports. »