By Peter Niven – Guernsey has an investment fund industry with a heritage that stretches back half a century. During the past two decades, the sector has seen a gradual yet sustained shift where the balance of business has moved
By Olivier Sciales – The European Union’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive is finally on the way to become law next July, at least in Luxembourg and other EU countries with ambitions to attract a larger share of the
BCS Global Markets (BCS GM) has partnered with Russian analysts Evgeny Gavrilenkov and Alexander Kudrin, the founders of GKEM ANALYTICA, a macroeconomic research firm focused on macroeconomics and financial markets. GKEM ANALYTICA will collaborate with BCS GM’s award-winning analyst team
Xenfin is to close its FX fund after three and a half years of trading and return all funds to investors. Since inception the fund has returned 28.76 per cent and 57.52 per cent on its managed growth and aggressive
By James Williams – Given London’s mantle as Europe’s leading hedge fund centre, it perhaps comes as a surprise that last year’s best performing UK hedge fund wasn’t based there at all, but rather a city more famous for its
The arrival in Jersey of a growing stream of hedge fund managers and other professionals involved in the industry has created new demand for assistance in relocation to the island, in a
The Investment Management Due Diligence Association (IMDDA), an investor-based organisation dedicated to the professionals who perform investment and operational due diligence programmes, is offering its members preferred access to the Convergence database of operational due diligence tools and analytics. “IMDDA
One of the potential consequences of the AIFM Directive is that fund managers, particularly those with a largely European investor base, may look to supplement existing offshore platforms with parallel onshore structures. But as Oliver Godwin (pictured), a partner based
By James Williams – Every which way you look in Europe there seems to be a new piece of legislation lurking via the corridors of Brussels, with a specific aim of targeting hedge funds. To say it is disproportionate is
To date some 287 federal cases related to the sub-prime crisis have been filed by unhappy investors in the US.
