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First Avenue Partners, a global private placement agent and investment advisory firm, has appointed Mike Taylor to its North American distribution team as a Principal.
Taylor joins the firm’s New York office primarily focusing on limited partner relationships in the Northeastern US and Eastern Canada. He has experience on both the distribution side having previously worked at Greenhill & Co and also on the limited partner side serving as a consultant for PCG Asset Management.
“With proven global distribution capabilities and an impressive pipeline of offerings, I am excited to be joining the First Avenue team. This is a tremendous
- 05/02/2015
- 05/02/2015
Law firm Maples and Calder, which advises on the laws of the Cayman Islands, Ireland and the British Virgin Islands, has announced the appointment of 12 new partners across its global offices.
The new partners in the Cayman Islands office include Greg Barwick, Philip Dickinson, Patrick Head, Andrew Keast and Patrick Rosenfeld. Ian Conlon, Stephen McLoughlin, Eimear O'Dwyer, Enda O'Keeffe and Ciara O'Leary were appointed as partners in the Dublin office. Manuela Belmontes and Harjit Kaur were elected in the Dubai and London offices, respectively.
Global Managing Partner, Henry Smith says, "It is with great pleasure that we announce
- 05/02/2015
- 05/02/2015
Corporate and fiduciary services company, MaplesFS is to provide entity management and corporate services globally to TPG, an international private investment firm.
Responding to the increasing trend for investment management and private equity firms seeking to outsource these services for their global companies, the Maples group has developed its own proprietary technology. Entity management worldwide is an increasingly important aspect of fund administration and this innovation allows clients to consolidate everything worldwide across all jurisdictions with one provider via its secure, centralised and sophisticated online platform, Maples eServices.
MaplesFS is renowned for its service culture and willingness to invest in
- 05/02/2015
Institutional manager DDJ Capital Management is anticipating a volatile market in 2015 offering bond pickers numerous and compelling buying opportunities.
The firm’s 2015 outlook says certain high yielding corporate debt instruments can offer an attractive return stream not only this year but for several years to come.
Following a torrid pace in the first half of 2014, reaching a peak return of 5.73% on June 24, the US leveraged credit market turned choppy and then headed south, says David Breazzano, DDJ’s president and chief investment officer, in the firm’s review of the past year and outlook for 2015.
In DDJ’s
- 05/02/2015
CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals is opening of new offices in China and India.
The establishment of a presence in these two markets demonstrates strong support for the region's growing number of members and candidates and allows for renewed focus on advocacy efforts to actively shape public policy that strengthens investor confidence and market integrity.
"This important milestone in the history of CFA Institute underscores our commitment to the Asia Pacific region and to the global investment profession," says Paul Smith, CFA, president and CEO of CFA Institute. "The new offices in Beijing and Mumbai demonstrate the
- 05/02/2015
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is extending the deadline for public comment on related applications submitted by LedgerX for registration as a derivatives clearing organisation and registration as a swap execution facility.
The original comment period ended on 30 January, 2015, but due to commenters requesting additional time, the CFTC is extending the deadline to Feb. 20, 2015. LedgerX plans to list and clear fully collateralised, physically settled options on bitcoins.
Comments may be submitted electronically through the CFTC’s Comments Online process. All comments received will be posted on the CFTC website.
- 05/02/2015
Liquid Holdings has launched LiquidMobile, a web-based app that allows hedge funds to manage portfolio and risk analysis and reporting across multiple funds on a mobile device in real-time.
LiquidMobile is engineered for fluidity from the desktop to any mobile device, giving fund managers the ability to easily interact with historical, real-time, and forward-looking P&L, performance, market and liquidity risk, and NAV-light calculations. With mobile-optimised dashboards to monitor investments and investor relationships on the go, LiquidMobileSM represents a major step forward for the hedge fund industry, which today faces rising pressures across transparency, regulations and operating costs.
"Fund managers
- 05/02/2015
Dallas-based alternative investment management firm Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors, has appointed First Foundation Advisors as the exclusive sub-advisor for the Highland Total Return Fund.
First Foundation Advisors was selected by the Board of Trustees for Highland Funds.
“We are pleased to expand our relationship with First Foundation Advisors,” says Ethan Powell, Highland’s Chief Product Strategist. “First Foundation has a strong track record and an investment process that aligns with the objectives of the Highland Total Return Fund.”
First Foundation Advisors also serves as the exclusive sub-advisor for the Highland Fixed Income Fund and the Highland Tax Exempt Fund.
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January was a volatile month across asset classes, proving challenging for many hedge fund investors although most global macro investors were rewarded, with the HFRX Macro/CTA index up 2.0%.
Important asset class moves reflected expectations of slowing global growth, including strong rallies in US, UK and European bonds, oil down over 7%, and equities negative. The MSCI World index fell by 1.8% while the US S&P 500 index lost 3.0% in US dollar terms. Europe proved a notable exception with European equities strongly positive in local currency terms.
The key issues for investors in January largely centred around quantitative
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