Man Group has completed its acquisition of GLG Partners. The acquisition creates a multi-style, performance-focused alternative asset manager with funds of around USD63bn under management. GLG is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Man. Peter Clarke, chief executive of
William S. Leavitt, president of Leavitt Capital Management, believes African private equity is one of the most attractive investment opportunities today and expects it to be a top performing asset class over the next decade. Speaking at the 2010 Global
Some 73 per cent of the commodity trading advisers (CTAs) and commodity pool operators (CPOs) that responded to a Horizon Cash Management survey were impacted by one or more of the futures commission merchant (FCM) failures mentioned in the study.
Dear readers, the Hedgeweek team is taking its annual seasonal break from Monday 23 December and will resume distribution of the daily newswire on Monday 6 January. Key news will continue to be posted to the Hedgeweek site during the
Private Client Resources, a provider of private wealth reporting and integrated technology, has entered into a strategic partnership with Hedge Fund Research (HFR), a provider of indexation, research and analysis of the global hedge fund industry. Through this partnership,
Governments around Europe were forced to rescue a number of financial institutions hit by the fallout from the ongoing US credit crisis, while a US
Early estimates indicate the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index will post its best year-to-date performance in September, gaining 3.23 per cent for the month. Nine out of the ten sectors posted positive performance as a result of global market
Jon Terry (pictured), partner in PwC’s reward team, comments on the European Parliament’s suggested amendments to the UCITS V Directive, which, if passed, will have major implications for all European asset management businesses… If passed unchanged, these proposals will leave
Total assets under administration in Ireland have hit an all time high of EUR1.8trn – up from EUR1.2trn at the same period last year and EUR1.4trn at the end of 2009. Recently published figures from the Central Bank reported that
Hermes CEO Saker Nusseibeh looks forward to 2014… Looking forward to 2014, we seem to have two reasonably solid foundations on which to build a forecast for the year. The first is that growth in the Anglo Saxon economies, especially
