Worldwide foreign exchange trading volume declined by approximately six per cent to just under USD100trn last year, according to Greenwich Associates. The cooling down of global FX markets brought to an end an impressive run that saw new records for
Private equity firm The Carlyle Group has agreed to purchase the management contracts on USD5.1bn in collateralised loan obligations and other credit assets from Stanfield Capital Partners, a fixed income asset manager based in New York. The transaction, part of
The international derivatives market Eurex Exchange will launch options on futures that are based on notional long-term bonds issued by the French Republic (Obligations Assimilables du Trésor – OAT) on 10 September. They will have a notional coupon of
Investor returns of between eight and 11 per cent a year without the attendant risks of pure equity-based investment are being highlighted in a drive to raise the profile of the Assured Fu
Barclays Capital Fund Solutions says its Research Analysis Driven Absolute Return strategy is now available on Nucleus. The addition of Radar, a long short macro tactical asset allocation strategy, to the Nucleus wrap is part of an ongoing initiative to
The pace of new European hedge fund launches slowed in 2007 for the first time in several years, according to EuroHedge, with both the number of funds launched and the combined volume of a
Tim Kirk (pictured), Partner and National Head of Financial Services at BDO LLP, on Jose Manuel Barroso and Nicolas Sarkozy’s confirmation of the EU’s commitment to press ahead with a unilateral Financial Transaction Tax (FTT)… While potentially attractive, the idea
Swiss alternative investment company Altin delivered a positive investment performance of 13.57 per cent for 2009, outperforming the HFRI Fund of Funds Index which recorded 11.55 per cent. Altin’s highly liquid portfolio allows the investment manager to implement a dynamic approach
CryptoCompare, a specialist in digital asset data, has launched a suite of digital asset data products in the BT Radianz Cloud. The comprehensive real-time and historical dataset will provide institutional clients with a granular, reliable view of the digital asset
The securitisation market in The Netherlands is ideally placed to bounce back from recent worldwide economic difficulties and is expected to play a leading part in the global recovery. This was the over-riding message from members of a panel of
