EI Sturdza Investment Funds has launched of the EI Sturdza Strategic European Smaller Companies Fund, which will be managed by Bertrand Faure and his team of European equity investment experts. The new fund will hold a concentrated portfolio of 20
CV Holdings has entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement and an Investor Rights Agreement with an affiliate of Tricadia Capital Management in connection with the sale in a private placement of shares of newly created Non-Convertible Senior Preferred Stock shares
Steamboat Capital Partners has launched its event-driven, long-short strategy on the Sciens Managed Account Platform. Steamboat is a fundamental, value oriented investment firm that specialises in undervalued and catalyst driven investments. The vehicle on the Sciens Managed Account Platform follows
The lack of hedge funds’ excess returns since the financial crisis put the industry under rising pressure. In this 12th edition of the White Paper, we review the causes and identify the key hedge fund performance drivers. We put to
June was a choppy month with reversals and sell-offs across most asset classes as investors digested Mario Draghi’s comments on expecting high volatility for bonds followed in the second half of the month by the risk escalation in Greece. Negative
Best Credit Data (BCD), a provider of end of day bond pricing data, is partnering with Exchange Data International (EDI), to distribute BCD Municipal Bond End-of-Day Pricing data to EDI clients around the world. BCD Municipal Bond Pricing provides end
Monthly average daily volume (ADV) and monthly total volume, both exchange-wide at CFE and for futures on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX Index), rose from last month and from year-ago levels. June total volumes hit highs for 2015, surpassing previous
CarVal Investors has completed the final close of CVI Credit Value Fund III (CVF III) with USD3 billion in commitments. The fund is investing in undervalued opportunities with a strong focus on portfolios of whole loans coming out of the
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched a new centralised data provisioning service, DTCC Data Products, which include the expansion of DTCC’s ETF and Corporate Actions ISO 20022 data product offerings. DTCC Data Products was created in response
Euronext posted its strongest six-month trading volume performance since the end of 2011 in the first six months of 2015, supported by favourable economic conditions. The June 2015 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at
