This month marks the five-year anniversary of the three successful GAM Star Credit Opportunities funds (EUR, USD and GDP) managed by Atlanticomnium SA in Geneva. The funds have delivered strong performance in spite of many challenges during the period, including
Convergex has entered into a clearing agreement with INTL FCStone Financial enabling it to offer its clients access to FCStone's futures execution capabilities and prime brokerage platform. With FCStone, Convergex Prime Services will be able to offer its clients 24-hour
Gravitas Technology Services is to provide alternative investment manager Mill Hill Capital with cloud hosting, archiving, network support and failover capabilities across its trading, investment, portfolio management, finance, and operations functions. Mill Hill Capital relies on proprietary valuation, cash flow
Quantitative hedge fund manager Man AHL has released Arctic, its MongoDB-powered financial tick store, on code collaboration and management site GitHub as a freely available open source project. By building Arctic on MongoDB, Man AHL realised a 40x cost saving when
With Blackstone Group’s latest opportunistic offering, which closed in Q3, becoming the largest private real estate fund of all time, Preqin’s Lauren Mason takes a look at fundraising for the strategy and the pipeline of opportunistic funds in market. Although
What does the future hold in store for Guernsey? Guernsey Finance’s Kate Clouston (pictured) paints a bright picture for the island’s funds industry. Guernsey’s reputation as a leading funds domicile has been reinforced by findings in a recent report published by
Hedge fund manager Hatteras Funds is to repurchase itself from RCS Capital Corporation and re-establish itself as an employee-owned alternative investment boutique. Acquired by RCS Capital on 30 June, 2014, Hatteras Funds has continued to operate as an independent reporting
The hedge fund industry produced an aggregate return of 1.91 per cent in October, bringing YTD returns to near flat for 2015, but still negative at -0.80 per cent, according eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Performance report. The industry’s last annual
Stifel Financial Corp is to acquire Eaton Partners, an independent, partner-owned hedge fund and private equity fund placement and advisory firm. Eaton's extensive relationships with private equity firms, hedge funds, high net worth family offices, and institutional investors is a
Hedge fund managers are experiencing the ripple effects of new regulations on banks and prime brokers, with hedge funds facing increased trading fees and broader changes to business relationships. These dynamics place additional pressure on margins and are leading managers
