Imagine Software, a provider of cloud-based portfolio and risk management solutions, has addressed the impending regulatory requirements of the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong. Leveraging its hosted offering to keep pace with new market developments, Imagine now helps
By Simon Gray – Much of the alternative fund administration industry has been located in offshore financial centres since the 1990s, when the so-called ‘10 commandments’ obliged funds to carry out various functions outside the United States to avoid tax
The credit crunch and its continuing repercussions are causing pain to many managers and investors but not, it seems, to litigators.
Institutional investors are forming a larger proportion of the investor base of hedge funds globally.
Thasos, an alternative data intelligence firm that transforms location information from mobile phones worldwide into real-time, objective and actionable insights, is to offer geolocation data on FactSet’s Open:FactSet Marketplace (OFM). The OFM will feature Thasos’ ConsumerStreams product, which covers over
By Craig Bridgewater – In a global environment in which clients are placing increased emphasis on greater quality and transparency among providers of alternative investments and put a premium on trust in their relationships, Bermuda is well positioned to capitalise
Established three years ago with one single fund of hedge funds mandate, Swiss Fund Services now administers more than 45 funds from its offices in Hamilton, Bermuda and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Hedge funds and investment banks may have suffered fresh losses of up to USD5bn over the past month alone on exotic interest rate options, reports
Selva Ozelli, an international tax attorney, certified public accountant and international tax editor with the Thomson Reuters Corporation in New Y
Fitch Ratings says it expects direct lending through funds to gain momentum as European bank deleveraging continues to drive corporate disintermediation. Fitch expects assets such as properties or corporate loans to be increasingly financed via funds, which will often have
