Jack McDonald has been promoted from executive vice-president to president and chief executive of Conifer Securities, a San Francisco-based provider of administration and other services to

Candidates vying for the Democratic Party nomination for next year’s US presidential election have taken around three-quarters of the campaign contributions made by hedge fund managers, ac

Vulture funds set up by the likes of Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, TPG and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts to hunt down fire sales in the LBO debt market have yet to find any great deals.

Dublin-based hedge Custom House Administration & Corporate Services has announced that it has become one of the first administrators to receive a Statement on Auditing Standards 70 Typ

While funds of hedge funds (FoHFs) and investment consultants continue to dominate the industry as conduits for assets, the two propositions are likely to experience greatly different fee pool growth trajectories over the next 18 to 24 months. These findings

London-based absolute return investment manager RAB Capital has appointed Osman Shafi, who was previously was instrumental in the development of the investor relations process at Brevan Ho

Markit Group, a provider of independent data, portfolio valuations and OTC derivatives trade processing and owner of the Markit CMBX index, has announced the addition of an AJ tranche to t

By Ugo M Giordano, partner and Sofia De Cristofaro, senior associate, Paul Hastings – The Alternative Investment Funds Managers Directive (the “AIFMD”) and the level 2 delegated Regulation No. 231/2013/EU entered into force on 22 July 20131, but the legal

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a notice of intent to permanently revoke the registration of Worldwide Clearing of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as a futures commission m

The world’s leading hedge funds managers are more concerned about attracting and retaining talented people and managing growth than anything else, according to new research – Navigating Ne