Fortress Investment Group Principal and Director Robert Kauffman has elected to retire from the company and its Board of Directors after a 15 year career at the firm. With Co-Chairman and Director, Wesley Edens, and interim CEO and Director Randal
The Wine Investment Fund (TWIF) predicts that the fine wine index, the Liv-ex 100, will see the value of fine wine rise in 2013 by 14 per cent. January provided evidence that the fine wine market is continuing its recovery.
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of technology solutions to alternative asset managers, has published a summary of the fourth annual IVP Hedge Fund Forum, which was held in New York City on 29 November and provided senior hedge fund professionals
Turkey was the worst performing country in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia in November, dropping by 9.7 per cent, according to a report by Menasa Capital Management. Turkey was followed by Dubai at -5.4 per cent. Turkey’s
Hedge fund managers remain downbeat on US equities, according to the TrimTabs/BarclayHedge survey of hedge fund managers for October. About 39 per cent of the 102 hedge fund managers the firms surveyed in the past two weeks are bearish on
November marked the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index’s first negative month of performance since June. Many managers focused on preserving capital in the increasingly volatile market environment by constraining their losses with hedges, curtailing exposures and lowering leverage
By Ross Youngs – In the current global environment, managers and regulators are focusing determinedly on the substance of activities in offshore financial jurisdictions, the quality of service providers and the ability to deliver increasingly complex business with the requisite
Prytania Investment Advisors says assets under management in its Galene Fund are approaching USD200m. Galene is an actively managed fund focusing on investment grade structured finance assets, targeting returns in excess of one month EURIBOR + 450bps pa.
By Ed Devenport (pictured) and Gavin Farrell – The past couple of years have seen a striking change in the type of work carried out by fund lawyers in the Channel Islands. Up to 2008, around 80 per cent of
ALPS, a DST Company, has launched the ALPS Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index Fund, which delivers exposure to the Alerian MLP Infrastructure Index. The index is a capped, float-adjusted, capitalisation-weighted composite of 25 energy infrastructure master limited partnerships that earn the
