By Dominique Lecocq (pictured) & Dr Caroline Pace, partner and senior associate, respectively, Lecocqassociate – In order to get a regulatory license, an asset management company must guarantee a fit and proper organisation. Most recognised jurisdictions have set similar standards,
This year’s GAIM International at the Meridien Beach Plaza in Monaco is a star-studded affair. The industry talent expected to congregate looks set to reflect the dazzling depths of the Mediterranean breaking just offshore. Such luminary names as GLG Partners’
Rothschild Asset Management and Larch Lane Advisors have launched Rothschild Larch Lane Management Company. The joint venture company will act as the investment advisor for a multi-manager liquid alternatives 40 Act fund that will use a risk balanced approach to
By Roger Buckley (pictured) – As an emerging funds jurisdiction Malta is in a strong and perhaps enviable position to mould its future as a domicile and fund administration centre with enhanced corporate governance standards. Together with compliance and risk
Newly launched investment advisory boutique Emotional Assets Management & Research has launched its first investment fund, The Emotional Assets Fund 1. Believed by EAMR to be the first of its kind, the fund will invest in a diversified set of
Interview with Gatis Eglitis – For integrated brokerage and fund platform firm, EXANTE, setting up in Malta last year was certainly a case of ‘New Kid on the Block’. Historically, the island has always been a nation of savers. The
The US futures markets have a target on their backs as newer market stakeholders are taking aim using algorithms, according to a report by Tabb Group. Electronic market makers, hedge funds and long-only asset managers alike are forging algorithmic trading
Interview with Joseph Saliba – In May this year, two draft versions of the Directive’s Level II measures came into circulation, with the European Commission’s draft differing in several areas compared to ESMA’s advice to the Commission. This is not
By Chris Casapinta (pictured) – The role of fund administrators has changed quite substantially in recent times. In part because of increasing global regulatory pressures, but also in response to the larger array of products and target assets and also
Gottex Fund Management Holdings Limited has reached agreement on the acquisition of Hong Kong based Penjing Asset Management (Penjing), one of the primary Asian alternative asset management providers. Ronnie Wu, founder and CIO of Penjing, will join Gottex as a
