Inter-dealer broker Icap, has announced that from Tuesday 1 April, its fixed-income trading platform BrokerTec will become an official platform for the wholesale trading of Belgian and Dut
Nancy Curtin, Chief Investment Officer of Close Brothers Asset Management comments on the upward revision of UK GDP growth… Barely months after the threat of a triple dip, a series of good economic results for the UK means business and
State Street has recruited Kevin Sullivan and Neil Wright to senior vice presidents with responsibility for overseeing the ongoing development of State Street’s derivative processing capab
Richard Heller, a partner with the law firm Thompson Hine, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Hedge Fund Association, an international non-profit association of hedge fund
Ignis Asset Management attracted GBP0.9bn of net inflows in the six months ended 30 June 2013, including GBP344m of net inflows into the GBP1bn Ignis Absolute Return Government Bond Fund. Ignis’s IFRS operating profit was GBP19m in the same
Fiserv has launched Model Management: Reporting, a new module that provides investment managers with model portfolio data. Model Management: Reporting within the Unified Wealth Platform from Fiserv provides investment managers data about the use of their models-only portfolios by participating
The growing popularity of hedge funds and real estate funds helped Luxembourg’s fund industry to a fourth year of strong growth.
Dynamic Funds, managed by GCIC Ltd, has launched the Dynamic Investment Grade Floating Rate Fund, managed by Marc-André Gaudreau and his corporate credit team. Dynamic Investment Grade Floating Rate Fund seeks to provide interest income and protect against the
Risk assets are set to generate positive returns for the remainder of 2013, driven by a slowly expanding global economy and ultra accommodative monetary policy, according to research by Lyxor Asset Management. Lyxor believes that the familiar pattern from
Quellos Group, the alternative investment manager that has agreed to sell its fund of hedge funds business to BlackRock, has announced the opening of an office in Hong Kong, the firm’s fir
