Recent market conditions were less supportive for hedge funds, with a reversal of market moves witnessed so far this year. Last week, European equities were down and the EUR/USD went up, while US rates ended the week marginally higher. The
Castle Hall Alternatives has launched OpsMonitor a due diligence platform featuring daily media monitoring, a comprehensive process to identify changes in manager and fund operational risk quarter to quarter. OpsMonitor also provides interactive dashboards to identify risks present in fund
Gottex Fund Management Holdings Limited has reported good performance to 10 April year to date from its Multi-Asset products, which are up around 5.3 per cent. The firm’s two Asian equity funds – the Gottex Penjing Asian Equity strategy added
In this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Real Estate, Q1 2015, we analyse fund performance and take a look at private real estate funds currently in market. Fund Performance Closed-end private real estate funds have posted positive changes in
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (Commission) Division of Market Oversight (DMO) has issued Guidance to Swap Execution Facilities (SEF) regarding the calculation of projected operating costs for purposes of complying with the financial resource requirements under SEF Core Principle
China Everbright Limited (CEL) and Sinowel Enterprise Group (Sinowel) have signed a strategic partnership agreement to start their co-operation towards the secondary market of trust beneficiary rights. CEL and Sinowel plan to maximise their value, as well as leveraging their
Alan Howard, co-founder of Brevan Howard, and Michael Platt, of BlueCrest Capital, jointly head the list of Britain’s wealthiest hedge fund managers, each with GBP1.5bn fortunes, in The 2015 Sunday Times Rich List, to be published Sunday, 26 April. The 128-page special
GMEX Technologies (GMEX TECH), part of the Global Markets Exchange Group International, and Avenir Technology Limited (Avenir), the UK based post-trade software firm, have partnered with the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE). This partnership will deliver a new system
This extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Infrastructure, Q1 2015 reflects on the first quarter’s infrastructure fundraising activity. Fundraising for unlisted infrastructure funds declined in Q1 2015, with just four funds closing, raising an aggregate USD5.3 billion in institutional capital
Altana Wealth, the asset management group, has teamed up with Godot Huard, a behavioural computer scientist, who has developed a unique system based on the theory that ‘directors know best’. There is much academic evidence to support the theory that
