Murex has announced that BlueCrest Capital Management, a European hedge fund manager with USD 13bn under management, is now live on MX.3 for its Multi-Strategy Credit Master Fund, a new st
Standard & Poor’s and Experian are joining forces to launch a series of consumer credit default indices in the US. The S&P/Experian Consumer Credit Default Indices, to be launched on 18 May 2010, will seek to measure the balance-weighted proportion
Independent fund administrator Opus Fund Services has acquired the fund administration unit of Advanced Fund Administration (AFA), which has offices in the Cayman Islands and New Jersey. Robin Bedford (pictured), CEO of Opus Fund Services, says: “This is the result
Daiwa Securities Global Asset Services, the fund servicing arm of the Daiwa Securities Group, has obtained a statement of auditing standards, SAS70 report, from its independent auditors KP
Jerry Haworth, Director, 36 South Investment Managers Ltd, examines the outlook for inflation and explains the forces that are driving economies towards a ‘bad’ inflation scenario. It has recently been reported that the CPI rose sharply to 3.4 per cent
More than two thirds (67 per cent) of senior leaders within the alternative investments industry think regulatory bodies are not doing enough regarding Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) regulation, according to the results of a new survey by Duff &
Citco Fund Services and OpHedge Investment Services have joined forces to provide their clients with enhanced fund administration and operational support services. Citco Fund Services provides full service hedge fund administration and has USD550bn in assets under administration, while OpHedge
Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust has entered into an agreement to purchase 645 Wellington Street in Montreal for CAD10.5m. Located on the north side of Wellington Street, just east of Cite Multimedia, the brick-and-beam building is comprised of 140,060
Miles Geldard, co-manager of the Jupiter Strategic Reserve Fund comments on the institutional fund’s outlook…
 The strong rally in risk assets triggered by the ECB’s massive action to avert a liquidity (and solvency) crisis has run its course. However, when
Since Tuesday, ICE Clear Europe has been actively transferring, upon request, individual customer accounts of MF Global Ltd. More recently, it has begun transferring client positions, upon request, of MF Global Inc. (US), MF Global Pte (Singapore), MF Global Futures
