Numen Capital LLP was founded in May 2008 by Filippo Lanza and Kushal Kumar. The firm’s flagship mandate is the Numen Credit Opportunities Fund, an event-driven credit special situations strategy. The fund looks at opportunities in the liquid credit space
It’s been a great year for independently owned Meridian Fund Services. The announcement of being voted Best Offshore Hedge Fund Administrator in this year’s Hedgeweek US Awards, which took place in New York on Thursday 6 June 2013, comes on
The market rally in 2013 hasn’t necessarily translated into significant trade volumes among hedge fund managers. This is primarily due to the fact that the market’s one-directional, low volatility performance is less fundamentally driven and more fuelled by central bank
Managed futures gained 0.96% in February according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. “Geopolitical upheaval in the Middle East, rising commodity prices, and an on-going rally in equity markets were the main drivers of CTA returns in February,”
EDHEC-Risk Institute has created a spin-off, EDHEC-Risk Indices & Benchmarks, which aims to be one of the leading beta designers for the investment industry. EDHEC-Risk Indices & Benchmarks will be based in London, New York, Nice and Singapore and
Founded by hedge fund titan Julian Robertson in 1980, Tiger Management LLC became one of the most successful and lauded hedge funds. At its peak in 1998, Tiger Management was running USD22billion in assets. In 2000, Robertson decided to take
It’s been a positive year for SunGard’s hedge fund business, which secured a number of large new customers including Industry Funds Management (IFM) in Australia. Two of the primary drivers behind this success are the continued popularity of VPM, the
This is the second consecutive year that Anchin, Block & Anchin LLP has won this award, complementing three straight years as Best North American Accounting Firm. According to Jeffrey Rosenthal, CPA, Partner-in-Charge of Anchin’s Financial Services Group, it’s no fluke:
A joint venture between BNP Paribas CIB and BNP Paribas Investment Partners’ asset management division has led to the creation of a new Investment Partner: THEAM. The new entity, a 100 per cent owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas IP, is
“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” – Warren Buffett The daily churn of ominous news stories surrounding the travails of SAC Capital Advisors has focused on the investigation and withdrawal of assets
