Jersey is the only offshore centre to place in the top 20 of global finance centres in an industry listing. Jersey took 18th position in the listing of global financial index centres published in March. The listing is produced every
By James Williams – Athos Capital is a new merger arbitrage hedge fund founded by portfolio manager Matt Moskey, trader Erik Senko and former COO of Black’s Link Capital, Fred Schulte-Hillen. Moskey and Senko previously ran an Asian product under
C.P. Eaton Partners has launched a platform to enable all of its current and future general partners access to RMB capital sources within mainland China. In conjunction, C.P. Eaton has hired Eric Gu as vice president to lead the effort
Drake Capital Management is finally throwing in the towel on its loss-making hedge funds.
Polar Capital’s healthcare investment team believes AstraZeneca’s results are evidence of the growing importance of emerging markets in the healthcare sector. AstraZeneca reported year-on-year growth of 19 per cent in emerging markets, and Polar Capital says this growth opportunity will
SEB is growing second fastest in Europe among prime brokerage for hedge funds, according to EuroHedge’s recently released European Prime Brokerage survey for 2009. Representing a snapshot of the hedge fund market, the EuroHedge survey places SEB as one of
F&C Asset Management has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire the Thames River Capital for consideration of up to GBP53.6m. The figure comprises initial consideration of GBP33.6m and conditional consideration of up to a further GBP20m payable in cash,
Isle of Man fund administrator Portal, a joint venture between insurance manager Thomas Miller and Boston, a multi-family office and wealth management firm based on the island, says it is
Eurex will launch a new options contract based on the EURO STOXX 50® Dividend Points (DVP) future as of 25 May 2010. This latest options product joins Eurex’s family of listed dividend derivatives and is designed to complement the underlying
MarketAxess, the operator of an electronic trading platform for US and European high-grade corporate bonds, emerging markets bonds and other types of fixed income securities, has reported an increase in total revenues for the first quarter of 2010 of 41.6
