Hedge fund administrator GlobeOp Financial Services, which offers business process outsourcing, financial technology services and analytics to traditional and alternative asset managers, i
Conyers Dill & Pearman has opened an office in São Paulo, Brazil, which will initially focus on investment funds, public company listings and holding company incorporations.<
Limmat Capital Alternative Investments has been appointed to manage a large balanced fund mandate with assets under management of EUR196m. Limmat Capital is an independent FINMA regulated investment management firm in Zurich, Switzerland, specialising in liquid long/short equity and balanced
The continuing institutionalisation of the hedge fund industry can be illustrated by a growing demand among managers – and indeed their investors – for shadow administration. Market regulation is pushing firms to stay operationally compliant. As a result, hedge funds
Under the stewardship of Mary Jo White, Chairperson of the SEC, the US regulator is pursuing a “Broken Windows” enforcement strategy, as used to great effect by the New York police department in the 90s. In recent times, the SEC
Credit Suisse’s asset management division has entered into an alliance with Reservoir Capital Group, a privately held investment firm, to seek attractive risk-adjusted returns.
Luxembourg The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg became in a few decades one of the leading locations for investment funds, being today the world’s second fund centre, overtaken only by the USA. Since 1959, when the first fund was established, the
The Ernst and Young New Zealand Absolute Return index surged to a new high in November, gaining 1.502 per cent for the month, bringing year-to-date performance to 17.597 per cent and ye
As the Securities and Exchange Commission and its (outgoing) chairman Christopher Cox agonise publicly over what they might have done to uncover the fraudulent activities of Bernard Madoff
Agcapita Partners has opened the Agcapita Farmland Fund III to investors. Agcapita Fund III is the only RRSP eligible farmland fund in Canada and is a CAD20 million offering. Farmland has been demonstrating its unique features as an asset
