Interview with Lonnie Macdonald, UMB Fund Services – “I get RFPs from clients all the time for complete middle-office services,” comments Lonnie Macdonald, president of JD Clark & Company, the hedge fund administration arm of UMB Fund Services. “We need to
Caldwell Life Strategies, an asset manager providing life settlement and related investing solutions, has reorganised its affiliates under a single corporation resulting in a new name and corporate identity. The new face of Caldwell encompasses all phases of life settlement
By James Williams – If there’s one tangible benefit to the way regulation is reshaping the hedge fund industry, it’s that service providers have to work in even closer collaboration with each other than they did previously. This is good
Bermuda-based Nephila Capital, an investment manager specialising in insurance-linked securities, attracted inflows of USD340m from 11 UK institutions into its catastrophe reinsurance fund in the second half of 2009. The latest inflows bring total assets under management in the platform
Navatar Group is offering two for one promotion pricing for its buy side and sell side cloud computing solutions running on the Force.com platform. The pricing includes both the Navatar service and the underlying Force.com seats. "Financial firms need a
London and more specifically the Core West End, still ranks as the number one destination for hedge funds in Europe according to “Hedging the Risk”, a new research report from Jones Lang LaSalle. Andrew Barnes, director in Jones Lang LaSalle’s
Interview with Toni Pinkerton (pictured) and Kim Waldman, Maples Fund Services – Increased regulatory and investor pressures are inexorably raising the barriers to entry in the hedge fund industry. Managers launching today face an uphill battle to raise assets yet must
The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index advanced 0.96 per cent in February, bringing its year-to-date performance to 0.42 per cent. The S&P 500 increased 2.85 per cent in February (-0.95 per cent YTD), while the Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 2.56
Guernsey’s zero-10 corporate tax regime has been deemed harmful by the EU’s Code of Conduct Group on Business Taxation. The Code Group had previously ruled similarly in relation to both the zero-10 regimes of both Jersey and the Isle of
Recent improvements in the US economy could give Barack Obama the edge over Republican rival Mitt Romney, says Marcus Bullus, trading director at MB Capital… If President Obama looked on the ropes in Wednesday’s Presidential debate, the economy has just
