More Italian corporations, including midsize companies, could issue debt on the capital markets over the coming years owing to changing funding conditions, according to a report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services. At present Italian companies source about 90
Archway Technology Partners, a global software and services company, has been chosen by Saturn Capital Management to provide fund administration services via its operations outsourcing service bureau. "Archway is excited about the local relationship with the Saturn team and the
Agecroft Partners has observed several dominant and emerging trends regarding capital flows into the hedge fund arena. The trends were identified through conversations with more than 200 hedge fund organisations and 1,000 institutional investors during 2009. They include continued improvement
Investors have scaled back risk taking in the past month, reducing exposure to equities and commodities while upping allocations to cash and bonds, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for June. Asset allocators have been adjusting
The 508,989 existing shares representing the outstanding capital of Sica Invest (SICV) have been admitted to trading on NYSE Alternext. The move comes after Sica Invest – an investment company investing mainly in small caps listed on the Free Market
Toby Cohen, analyst at Czarnikow Group, one of the UK’s oldest sugar traders, says the fundamental factors behind the doubling of the sugar price in 2009 (12c/lb to more than 25c/lb) will continue in 2010 as under-investment in production will
A new pan-Channel Island law firm, Collas Crill, opened its doors this week following the merger of Jersey firm Crill Canavan and Guernsey’s Collas Day. The merger creates a new 16-partner, full service Channel Island firm with around 150 staff.
Medley Capital has acquired credit hedge fund manager Viathon Capital LP effective March 31, 2011. Medley, a registered investment adviser with USD1.4 billion of assets under management in private investment funds, hedge funds and Medley Capital Corporation (NYSE: MCC), provides
All seven of IndexIQ’s hedge fund and alternative beta replication indices saw negative performance in May. Designed as investable benchmarks that replicate the performance characteristics of sophisticated hedge fund strategies, the IQ Hedge benchmark indexes underlie a variety of investment
By James Williams – Dark pools exist in a variety of forms to serve a variety of clients. In the US they are referred to as an alternative trading system (ATS). In Europe they include multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) –
