With strong growth in the ranks of the wealthy in recent years, high net worth individuals and groups are increasingly willing to invest portions of their liquid assets themselves.

Volaw Trust & Corporate Services, a provider of fiduciary, advisory and fund administration services, has opened a new office in Dubai to further consolidate its position in the Middle

State Street Global Advisors, the world’s largest institutional fund manager, has reached the USD10bn mark for assets under management in its Edge strategies, SSgA’s version of short-exten

Partners Group, the Switzerland-based global alternative asset manager, has reported that its estimated assets under management at the end of June totalled CHF22bn, representing growth of

The Glasgow Mackintosh Fund, a pan-European long/short equity fund with a focus on UK mid-cap stocks, is opening up to new investors following its inaugural year, during which it has been

Och-Ziff Capital Management has joined the growing list of alternative asset managers jumping on the IPO bandwagon. The USD26.8bn outfit will raise USD2bn.

Citi Markets & Banking has agreed to acquire Automated Trading Desk, a specialist in electronic market making and proprietary trading for approximately USD680m in cash and stock.

The commodities market is as strong as it has been for 20 years and will continue its cycle for far longer than expected, according to John Payne, manager of the Resolution Hexam Global Re

MPC Investors has appointed Steven Robertson and Eng Li Yap as equity analysts to support Ajay Gambhir, who joined the firm in May from JPMorgan Asset Management to launch MPC Samsara, a E

At least 30 per cent of hedge funds trading illiquid strategies are smoothing returns, according to research into the behaviour of more than 1,000 hedge funds conducted by Riskdata, a prov