Eurex Bonds, the international electronic bond trading platform, has been admitted by the Finnish State Treasury to act as a secondary market venue for trading of Finnish government bonds. In Finland, 14 primary dealers are eligible to conduct wholesale government
Alcantara Asset Management is to launch the Alcantara Government Debt Fund offering investors access to government debt investment opportunities in sovereign and quasi-sovereign liquid debt instruments from the world’s most stable economies. The fund, which is epxected to launch on
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has permitted the offer and sale in the US of the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s mini futures contract based on the Topix and futures contracts based on the Topix Core30 Index and TSE Real Estate Investment
NYU Stern alumnus John Paulson, founder and chairman of hedge fund Paulson & Co, has given a gift of USD20m to NYU Stern. Paulson’s gift will endow two faculty chairs – the Alan Greenspan Chair in Economics and the John
Northern Trust will provide investment operation outsourcing clients with an array of new client communications capabilities through an agreement with Equipos, a supplier of client reporting and marketing communications software, including document management and business process management for investment managers.
Schroders’ Johanna Kyrklund, head of multi-asset investments, and Urs Duss, fund manager, multi-asset, give their views on emerging market equities… Emerging market equities have had a difficult time over the last few months. In USD terms, the 12 month return
Risk analytics provider Measurisk, an affiliate of J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services, has entered into an agreement to make its risk transparency information available to clients of Aksia, an independent hedge fund research and advisory firm headquartered in New York.
Just when you thought that the guards had at last wrested control of the asylum back from the inmates, here comes another proposed feature of the European Union’s proposed Directive on Alternative Investment Fund Managers that takes one’s breath away.
Entrex has entered into an exclusive relationship with Sinova Capital Group, a Hong Kong-based cross-border investment banking and alternative asset management firm, to establish an Entrex capital market system for private companies across the Greater China region. It will also
With a post-Madoff world fixed firmly in the rear-view mirror and new regulations on the horizon, a new report from Tabb Group describes how the role of fund administrators is now among one of the most important of hedge fund
