Faris Abdulrazzaq (pictured), Senior portfolio manager for Menasa Capital Management, examines the impact of regime change across the Arab world. Reverberations from the recent revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt have been felt across the Arab World, far beyond the geographic
So massive is the wall of regulation rushing toward the investment industry as a whole that regulators themselves are struggling to keep up. In February the European Securities and Markets Authority published its latest contribution to fleshing out the European
Chief executive officers and chief operating officers were the best paid hedge fund employees in 2009, receiving total compensation of over USD1m, according to a survey by Infovest21. Three positions received total compensation of between USD600,000 and USD999,999: director of
Horizon Cash Management, an investment adviser specialising in active cash management solutions for the alternative investment industry, has launched the Emerging Manager Fund Cash Account. Horizon created the account to provide small and emerging fund managers with a safe
Direct Lending funds are becoming an attractive “fixed income alternative” asset class for European institutional investors. The breadth of strategies ranges from high risk/high return “special situations” through to opportunistic strategies and what is referred to as the mainstream direct
Philippe Jabre has been successfully managing convertible bonds for 30 years. Whilst at GLG Partners (between 1997 and 2006), Jabre honed his convertible bond strategy resulting in five funds with a combined AuM of USD7bn at its peak. In 2007, Jabre
The management team at Legis has successfully completed a buyout of the business. The share capital of the funds, corporate services and trust business has been acquired by a newly-formed holding company, Legis Group Holdings Limited, with funding from HSBC
Deutsche Bank’s Global Markets division is vast. It employs 6,000 professionals in 40 trading rooms across the globe, 18 of which are located in cities in the Asia-Pacific region. Few prime brokers in the region can claim to have such
Dermot Butler (pictured), Chairman, Custom House Group Fund Services, outlines some of the key exemptions for investment advisers under the Dodd-Frank rule. Last summer, in July 2010, the “Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act” (‘Dodd -Frank Act’) was
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for May 2013 measured 0.77 per cent. Hedge fund flows, meanwhile, as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index, advanced 1.17 per cent in June. “Net
