London-based specialist fixed-income and currency asset manager Augustus Asset Managers has announced the appointment of Alex McKnight as a portfolio manager on the JB Convertible Hedge Fu

Cayman Islands law firm Turner & Roulstone has announced the opening of a City of London office in Cornhill from which partner Gavin Lowe, newly recruited from Ogier, will provide lega

BlueCrest Capital Management, a UK hedge fund manager in which Man Group Holdings has a 25 per cent stake, has informed investors it is shutting its USD550m BlueCrest Equity Fund after a p

Greenwich, Conn-based Atlantic-Pacific Capital, Inc, the independent global placement agent for alternative investment funds and direct private placements, has hired nine investment and fi

Hedge fund and private equity lawyer Timothy M Clark has joined the New York office of Proskauer Rose LLP as a partner, continuing the expansion of the firm’s private investment funds prac

Cape Natixis has announced the first and final close of the Cape Natixis Due fund at EUR195 million against a target of EUR160 million.

Compensation for hedge fund jobs continues to increase across the board according to a new report released by Glocap Search LLC, Institutional Investor News and Lipper HedgeWorld.

Integrated Asset Management has completed the acquisition of the 49.9% of Attica Holdings UK Limited (Attica) it did not already own.

Crosby Capital Partners confirmed that it has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Forsyth Partners Group to acquire certain assets from the Group.

Fortis Investments has launched the New Equity Opportunities China Fund, which is geared to institutional investors and aims to exploit opportunities in both Chinese-listed equities (A and