By Simon Gray In its report for the IDA last year, Deloitte & Touche suggested that encouraging hedge fund managers to set up shop in Ireland would be a good wa
The Blackstone Group intends to offer senior notes of Blackstone Holdings Finance, its indirect subsidiary, subject to market and other conditions. The notes will be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by The Blackstone Group and its indirect subsidiaries, Blackstone Holdings I,
A new focus on Latin American alternative assets among foreign investors starved of substantial returns at home is coinciding with the emergence of a new breed of managers in the region whose skill
Direct Access Partners, an institutional agency-only brokerage firm, is acquiring EFX Prime Services, a division of First New York Securities. The new team complements Direct Access Partners’ capital raising group and provides hedge fund clients with an integrated capital introduction
Here’s a prediction. If you take a look at macro-economic trends since
Connecticut-based alternative asset manager Fairfield Greenwich Group has agreed to merge with Banque Bénédict Hentsch, a Geneva-based Swiss privat
There has been a significant increase in the percentage of pension portfolios investing in alternatives when compared to the previous two years, a poll by SEI suggests. In 2008, 51 per cent of pension executives surveyed said their pension portfolio
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Nexar Capital Group, an alternative investment manager, has acquired Allianz Alternative Asset Management from Allianz France, its majority shareholder, and Allianz Global Investors Europe. Since 1981, Allianz Alternative Asset Management has been providing its clients with a variety of fund
By Simon Gray – The Cayman Islands are best known in the global financial industry as the world’s dominant offshore hedge fund domicile. Less familiar outside industry specialists is that the Caribbean jurisdiction is also home to a substantial fund
