Hedge fund managers began January broadly expecting the successful themes of the previous quarter to remain prevalent, according to Anthony Lawler, portfolio manager at GAM. Specifically, these themes included Japan reflation; strength in developed market equities led by US growth;

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Clearstream are to establish a strategic partnership to support the bilateral loan (also known as credit claims) and syndicated loan markets.    Clearstream will leverage DTCC’s Loan/SERV Reconciliation Service and begin to

SVM Asset Management, the Edinburgh based independent fund management group, says its SVM Highlander Fund returned 21.1 per cent in 2008 in euro terms, compared with a fall of 43.3 per

Market Data & Analytics has made available its algorithmic news feed “AlphaFlash” in the CME Co-Location facility located in Chicago’s suburbs via its subsidiary Need to Know News. This is the second data centre in the Chicago area that offers

Jersey City-based Aim-To, a provider of hedge fund software, has announced an expansion of its spend management software and managed services offering.

The Assured Fund, which invests in the US senior life settlements market, has forecast a minimum nine per cent return for 2009.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, acting in concert with the Financial Services Authority in the UK, has taken temporary emergency action to prohibit short selling in financial compa

Stock markets remained highly volatile in March (44.14 per cent) but finally posted significant profits (+8.76 per cent) that brought the S&P500 index to its March 2003 level, accor

Low risk assets could offer private investors the best prospects of attractive returns in 2009 as the world’s leading industrialised nations face recession, according to Gary Dugan, the