HedgeCo has selected Cognito to provide a range of marketing and communications services for hedge funds. The HedgeCo-Cognito Premium Communications Program comes as the passage of the JOBS Act and relevant rules ease restrictions on marketing and communication between funds,
Citco Bank, the global leader in custody and fund trading for mutual and hedge funds, has topped the USD250bn mark for assets under custody, a business that was founded in 1994 and now emp
Fund of hedge funds manager Financial Risk Management has launched a new business to provide seed capital to early-stage and start-up hedge fund managers, with its own capital and dedicate
PCE Investors has appointed Dr Warwick Norton as director of meteorology and climate research to work on the Cumulus Weather and Cumulus Energy funds, which apply weather derivatives exper
PCE Investors, a London-based infrastructure platform for hedge fund managers, has appointed Clive Warburton to manage its compliance department.
Group G Capital Partners, a New York-based investment manager specialising in alternative investment strategies, has appointed Alyson Gardner Kiesel as director of marketing and strategic
Acropole Asset Management, a Paris-based specialist convertible bond manager launched 18 months ago and now with EUR600m in assets under management, has extended its range of products with
All seven of IndexIQ’s proprietary family of hedge fund replication and alternative beta indices produced negative returns in August. The IQ Hedge Emerging Markets Beta Index was the worst performer with a return of -1.90 per cent followed by
The US Futures Exchange has announced plans to list the first credit derivative futures on Federal Agency debentures, beginning with a government tranche of the CDX index including credit
Hedge funds gained 10.40 per cent in 2007 according to year-end data compiled by Fairfield, Iowa-based Barclay Hedge, nearly double the 5.49 per cent return of the S&P 500 Total Return
