BMO Capital Markets, the investment and corporate banking arm of BMO Financial Group, has signed a definitive agreement with Greenwich, Connecticut-based Paloma Securities to hire its global securities lending team and acquire assets used in its securities lending business. Paloma
Cyrus Capital Partners has extended its enhanced USD250m offer to finance Ion Media Networks’ exit from bankruptcy protection. The Cyrus offer, which was summarily rejected by the Ion Networks’ board, provides Ion with USD100m of additional incremental capital not offered
The Dutch Hedge Fund Index ended April 1.12% lower – more than the DB (-0.24%) and Lyxor Hedge Fund Indices (-0.02%) for the month but still positive for the year (+2.29% Ytd). April’s performance is a result of the weighting
German family office and BaFin-regulated investment adviser Wermuth Asset Management's (WAM) Russia-focused quant strategy has significantly outperformed a peer group of 50 since its inception, a trend which has continued in the first quarter of 2014. Wermuth Leveraged Quant Eastern Europe Strategy remains
Interdealer broker Icap produced a profit of GBP166m in the half year to 30 September 2009 before taxation, amortisation and impairment of intangibles arising on consolidation and exceptional items. This represents a five per cent drop from a profit of
Institutions and financial advisers continue to view alternative investments optimistically, despite their questionable performance, correlation and liquidity during last year’s global downturn, according to a survey by Morningstar and Barron’s. The majority of participants to the survey said they plan
By Kenneth Farrugia (pictured) – Malta’s fund industry is increasingly making the headlines in the financial media, which have highlighted the island’s attractiveness as a domicile. Journalists and finance analysts progressively see Malta as a complementary EU jurisdiction to traditional
By Laragh Cassar (pictured), Partner, Camilleri Preziosi – Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) offer various benefits and enable participants to pool in their investments under the principle of risk spreading. Furthermore, CIS enable the individual investor to benefit from investment opportunities
Interdealer broker Icap and GreTai Securities Markets, the over-the-counter securities market in Taiwan, have entered into a partnership to provide onshore access to US government bond trading in Taiwan. Under the new agreement, GreTai is able to provide its customers
Simon Coxeter, Director at Swisslake Capital Asia, discusses the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to real estate investment. For an investor’s allocation to real estate, what is most important in shaping returns across the market and economic cycle? Is it
