Brexit has brought about uncertain times for the investment industry. Since the recent announcements by Theresa May to move away from EU regulation, this has spouted further debate and uncertainty for asset managers, including whether to keep their core business
The alternatives industry grew solidly in 2016 across all segments and factors tracked by Convergence. The firm measures the overall health of the industry by analysing changes it observes in 17,500-plus advisers, 53,000-plus private funds and 6,000-plus service providers.
Hedge funds posted strong, broad-based gains in June, with multiple and varied drivers of performance leading advances across a wide range of strategies. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index gained +2.6 per cent for the month, the strongest month since
American Beacon Advisors (American Beacon), a provider of investment advisory services to institutional and retail markets, has launched the American Beacon SSI Alternative Income Fund. Since its inception in 2012, the fund has primarily used a convertible arbitrage strategy to provide
Alternative investment manager Investcorp has appointed Nelson Ramos as co-portfolio manager of its alternative risk premia portfolios, deputy head of cross asset investments, and a member of the cross asset and investment committees. Ramos will focus on the management of
Citigroup is to pay USD25 million to settle CFTC charges against for spoofing – bidding or offering with the intent to cancel the bid or offer before execution — in US Treasury futures markets and failed to diligently supervise the
Hedge funds have lost almost USD560 million after several hefty short bets on a range of FTSE 100 stocks turned sour as equity markets yielded solid gains. New data from London-based equity research firm Ortex Analytics shows almost three-quarters of
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission division of enforcement director Aitan Goelman will leave the agency on 3 February 2017. During Goelman’s tenure, the division brought a number of first-in-kind cases using the new enforcement authorities created by the Dodd-Frank Wall
Mediatrix Capital Fund has launched as a Bloomberg-listed closed-end hedge fund administered by Sterling Fund Services, audited by KPMG, and domiciled in the Bahamas. Parent company Mediatrix Capital will raise USD1 billion in investments into the new Mediatrix Capital Fund.
Q&A with Geoff Ruddick (pictured), IMS Fund Services – You mentioned in your last article that ‘Governance is not a game’ – can you expand on what you meant by that statement? Unfortunately, in the past few years fundamental governance
