It may have taken the new-found enthusiasm of North American and European investors for the BRIC quartet of emerging markets to highlight the investment case for Latin America in general, but Brazi
Harcourt Investment Consulting, a fund of hedge funds manager and investment consultant majority owned by Swiss private bank Vontobel, has promoted David Keel to managing partner and head
Frontier Capital Management, a London-based specialist multi-asset investment company, has announced the launch of the IFDS Frontier MAP Balanced Fund following approval by the Financia
Third Point, the activist US hedge fund manager headed by Daniel S Loeb, has launched an initial public offering of shares in Third Point Offshore Investors, a newly-established Guernsey c
The GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for July 2011 measured 2.08%, down from 4.01% in June. “The Forward Redemption Indicator registered a new all-time low in June,” says Hans Hufschmid, chief executive officer, GlobeOp Financial Services (LSE:GO.). “This is the
The Financial Services Authority has announced that following extensive consultation and to help improve transparency in current market conditions, the new disclosure regime for contracts
The Newedge Short-Term Traders Index (STTI) returned 2.43 per cent in January. This marks the tenth time in 13 months that the STTI has delivered a positive monthly return. Conversely, trend-following strategies continued to face a challenging opportunity set
Citco Fund Services, the world’s leading hedge fund administrator with more than USD500bn in assets under administration, has been granted a licence by the Guernsey Financial Services Comm
Both gross and net returns in December for the Palomar Structured Credit Hedge Fund Index were negative for the third month in a row, although 15 of 30 funds reported positive results.
Primary Insight, a business that serves institutional money managers with advice from a global network of industry experts, has successfully completed a management buyout from JP Morgan
