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Tarter Krinsky & Drogin has appointed Charles M Miller as a partner in the firm’s Litigation practice where he will lead the newly formed Securities and Financial Services Litigation Group. A litigator with more than 20 years of experience, Miller represents institutional investors, investment funds, high-net-worth individuals and overseas financial institutions in a wide range of disputes arising in connection with debt and equity securities, derivatives, financial contracts and structured financial transactions.   Miller litigates contract and tort claims arising in connection with privately issued debt and equity, leveraged loans, collateral bond obligations (CBOs), collateral loan obligations (CLOs), residential mortgage-backed
Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today published the results of its Fixed Income Institutional Voice Survey, with US and European institutional traders revealing that “sourcing liquidity” is the most important factor when selecting a trading venue. Driven by regulatory and market structure changes, the fixed income trading landscape has recently shifted as the buy side aims to find an optimal path to unlock and source liquidity when trading bonds. As a result, discussions around trading have moved toward an increase in electronic trading and having the right technology in place in order to navigate the rapidly changing fixed income
Hedge Funds gained 0.37 per cent in June according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The index has risen every month this year, as well as in 11 of the past 12 months, and is up 4.41 per cent for 2017. “The hedge fund industry continues to show broad strength,” says Sol Waksman (pictured), founder and president of BarclayHedge. “The continued rally in the US equity market combined with outsized returns in specific market segments have led the industry higher this year.”   Overall, 13 of 17 subindices showed gains in June. Among the winners, Healthcare and
Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust PLC, a newly incorporated close-ended public limited company, has begun trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market. Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust PLC raised gross proceeds of USD100,111,000. Robert Barnes, Global Head of Primary Markets and CEO Turquoise, London Stock Exchange Group, says: “Welcoming the second Gabelli fund to our markets today is a milestone for the company, having successfully raised over $100 million and testament to the strength of the UK fund industry. London Stock Exchange continues to finance a variety of issuers from across the world, with over £4.4
Street Contxt, a fintech company that helps brokerages, independent research providers, and asset managers distribute, manage, unbundle, and value research, has launched its buy side service. The new functionality allows investors, including hedge funds, pension funds, and institutional asset managers, to never miss information that they care about by centralising and organising the entire firm’s content and knowledge, whether it comes from brokers, independent research providers, internal sources, corporate IR, filings, the web, or anywhere else. Street Contxt enables fund managers to access one portal to share the firm’s subscriptions and internal knowledge, collaborate internally on investment ideas, monitor their
Wall Street Horizon, an alternative data provider specialising in corporate event intelligence, has expanded its global dataset to include nearly 1,000 new companies. The increased offering, which includes data for all 40+ event types Wall Street Horizon tracks, includes the full roster of constituents for all major European and Asian indexes.   Since 2008 Wall Street Horizon has offered a limited international dataset a la carte, but today’s expansion will now see the full Enchilada platform – which tracks dozens of event types including earnings dates, dividend dates, options expiration dates, splits, spinoffs and investor conferences – extended beyond the
The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and the International Capital Market Association’s (ICMA) Asset Management and Investors Council (AMIC) have published a joint paper analysing how and why leverage is used in investment funds in Europe, how firms address in practice related risks and the technical tools used to measure leverage and improve the efficient management of their portfolio. Today’s report addresses the theme of leverage as it forms a significant part of the international regulatory concern about systemic risk in investment funds. The FSB and IOSCO seek to identify consistent measures of leverage to facilitate more meaningful
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA​ – In these turbulent times, it sometimes feels like we need to be armour plated to protect ourselves against the relentless barrage of attacks against our families, our businesses, our economy and our political stability. Risk management, and cybersecurity have never felt more important than right now, in light of global events. Our clients; alternative investment firms, private equity firms, prime brokers and insurance firms have a specific set of risks that they need to manage, and the list continually shifts in order of importance. Top of the risk list is business continuity. Making sure you
The Castlewood Select Opportunity Fund posted a 6.5 per cent return net of fees and expenses for the second-quarter. According to Mark Wittenstei (pictured), Managing Partner of the Castlewood Select Funds, this puts Castlewood up 10.3 per cent through the first-half of 2017 and caps a 12-month return of 16.8 per cent for the Macro Fund.   “By some measures, investors rarely had an easier time making money than they did in the first-half of 2017. Markets put together several extended strings of ‘up days’ and there were almost no scary bouts of downside volatility to keep risk-takers honest,” says
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged Jason B Scharf, a worldwide web of companies he controlled, and affiliate marketer Michael Shah and his company Zilmil, with unlawfully soliciting and accepting more than USD16 million in connection with illegal binary options contracts. Scharf also does business as Citrades.com and AutoTradingBinary.com, according to the Complaint.   In addition, the Complaint charges Scharf, Shah, and Zilmil with acting as Futures Commission Merchants (FCM) and Commodity Trading Advisors (CTA) without being registered with the CFTC, as required.   On 12 July, 2017, US District Court Judge Brian J Davis entered a Statutory

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