Prospects are clouded for Cyprus as a domicile for investment and transaction structures set up by entrepreneurs and investors from Russia and other eastern European countries such as Ukraine following a levy on bank deposits and capital controls imposed by
Following on from our successful Hedgeweek 2012 Global Awards, which attracted a lot of votes from the US, we are conducting a survey of the US Hedgeweek readership to assess the best US-based hedg fund managers and service providers during
Following confirmation of the AIFM Directive at the end of 2010, Jersey has announced that it is working to deliver a range of flexible options, including a fully AIFMD compliant regime and to retain existing complementary regimes for asset managers
Investors are positioning themselves for halts in both Europe and China’s economic recovery, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch survey of fund managers for February. Investors have scaled back their growth expectations, retreated into cash and are increasingly skeptical that
Can Britain, like the US, successfully use the fracking technique to build energy reserves and cut costs? If so, what can be learned from the US? Eric Gordon, Energy Analyst at Brown Advisory, comments… In the US, fracking technology has revolutionised
Institutional investors view activism as a successful tool used among hedge fund managers to increase returns and stimulate growth in their investments, according to a survey by Novus. "With institutional investors under increasing pressure to add value and deliver returns,
The share values of listed exchanges grew by 6.4 per cent during September 2009, amid further signs that the sector is returning to buoyancy and outperforming the rest of the market in terms of recovery. Sixteen of the 18 exchanges
Schroders is to launch a new investment trust, structured as a Guernsey-domiciled closed-ended investment company, which will invest in a range of commodities strategies. The Schroder Opus Commodity Fund will be managed by Schroders NewFinance Capital, Schroders’ absolute return multi-manager
John Redwood, chairman of Evercore Pan-Asset’s Investment Committee on efforts by the UK and Spanish governments to rebalance their respective economies… This week saw the Spanish authorities seek to cut a further EUR10 billion from their public sector budgets, in
Asia Pacific’s population of high net worth individuals fell 14.2 per cent to 2.4 million in 2008 amid a global economic downturn and market volatility, according to a report from Merrill Lynch Wealth Management and Capgemini. The combined wealth of
