By Simon Boor – Throughout the alternative fund industry, and especially in the Cayman Islands as the world’s largest hedge fund domicile, the focus today is more than ever on transparency, which means not just the availability of information but
The Cayman Islands are still the predominant domicile for hedge funds, according to a survey of European hedge fund managers by Citigroup. There is no widespread move to re-domicile funds onshore ahead of final clarity on the Alternative Investment Fund
The Blackstone Group intends to offer senior notes of Blackstone Holdings Finance, its indirect subsidiary, subject to market and other conditions. The notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by The Blackstone Group and its indirect subsidiaries, Blackstone Holdings I,
Direct Access Partners, an institutional agency-only brokerage firm, is acquiring EFX Prime Services, a division of First New York Securities. The new team complements Direct Access Partners’ capital raising group and provides hedge fund clients with an integrated capital introduction
Connecticut-based alternative asset manager Fairfield Greenwich Group has agreed to merge with Banque Bénédict Hentsch, a Geneva-based Swiss privat
There has been a significant increase in the percentage of pension portfolios investing in alternatives when compared to the previous two years, a poll by SEI suggests. In 2008, 51 per cent of pension executives surveyed said their pension portfolio
Nexar Capital Group, an alternative investment manager, has acquired Allianz Alternative Asset Management from Allianz France, its majority shareholder, and Allianz Global Investors Europe. Since 1981, Allianz Alternative Asset Management has been providing its clients with a variety of fund
By Simon Gray – The Cayman Islands are best known in the global financial industry as the world’s dominant offshore hedge fund domicile. Less familiar outside industry specialists is that the Caribbean jurisdiction is also home to a substantial fund
The London Metal Exchange has announced it will launch two minor metals contracts in the second half of 2009 for molybdenum and cobalt.
Investor interest in hedge funds was strong again in August, with support from fixed income and commodity strategies, according to research by HFN. The HFN Hedge Fund Aggregate Index was up 0.41 per cent in August and is up 2.16
