Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 1.36% in August. "Net inflows resumed in August taking the cumulative Index to a new high despite the continued uncertainty in European and US markets," said Bill
Augustus Asset Managers Limited, the independent investment manager of segregated accounts and hedge funds, has signed a four year IT infrastructure outsourcing deal with SAVVIS, worth GBP
Bob Diamond has resigned as Chief Executive and a Director of Barclays with immediate effect. Marcus Agius will become full-time Chairman and will lead the search for a new Chief Executive. Agius will chair the Barclays Executive Committee pending the
Ithmaar Bank, Shamil Bank and Islamic Investment Company of the Gulf (Bahamas) have announced they have met their target of raising USD200m for the first closing of the USD500m Aldar Priva
ICAP plc, the interdealer broker, and Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc have revealed that their joint venture, ICAP-JLT, has brokered its first catastrophe swap transaction.
Hedge funds have added fuel to merger talk in the US airline sector.
Masashi Oda, Chief Investment Officer, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group on the latest activity in Japanese equity markets… Despite downward revisions to consensus forecasts, the Japanese equity market still offers an attractive forward PER of 12.1x: a historic low. The market
The most anticipated financial event since the birth of the euro has finally come to pass.
By James Williams – It has been an encouraging first six months of 2012 for the alternative UCITS market. A couple of years ago total assets in these products were around EUR80billion. Now, according to Alix Capital, a Geneva-based firm
Barry Norris (pictured), Partner, Argonaut Capital Partners and Manager of the Ignis Argonaut European Alpha Fund, on how the Eurozone is defying the doom-mongers… When S&P downgraded France, Spain and Italy earlier this year it was seen by many observers
