Ever-increasing demand and fixed supply means that wine as an investment offers a unique combination of superior returns and low risk by comparison with more conventional investments, acco
Nedgroup Investments, a specialist fund of hedge funds provider that belongs to South Africa’s Old Mutual group, has launched the Nedgroup Investments Premium Portfolio to provide institut
Fortress Investment Group has closed the Fortress MSR Opportunities Fund II at its cap of USD1.1bn. MSR Fund II is a successor fund to the Fortress MSR Opportunities Fund I, which closed in August 2012 with USD608m in total
NYSE Euronext has migrated its European bond products onto its new Universal Trading Platform.
Efforts in the US Congress to change the tax treatment of hedge fund managers and private equity firms may have been halted last year, but they have not gone away.
Lehman Brothers is acquiring LightPoint Capital Management, a leveraged loan investment manager with around USD3.2bn in assets under management that will become an integral part of Lehman
Investec Asset Management’s first commodity hedge fund, the Guernsey-domiciled Global Commodities & Resources Fund, has marked its first anniversary by delivering returns of more than
The presence of illiquid and hard-to-value assets in hedge fund portfolios could expose fund directors to enhanced legal risks as they prepare to sign off 2007 annual reports at the end of
Cogent Consulting, a developer of commission management systems for the securities industry, has signed a non-binding letter of intent for the sale of a majority of the company to a gro
Multi-manger hedge fund advisory firm Evanston Capital Management (ECM) has successfully migrated its core servers and applications to the Gravitas Private Cloud. Gravitas’Private Cloud is a secure, scalable and integrated solution built on VCE’s Vblock state-of-the-art virtualization and cloud technology.
