Fees for global Investment Banking services, from M&A advisory to capital markets underwriting, totalled USD64.0 billion during the first nine months of 2011, an 8% increase over last year at this time, according to Thomson Reuters l;attest Global Banking Review.
The European Central Bank’s “whatever it takes” promise has substantially reduced tail risks, according to Lyxor. Risk premiums that have remained abnormally high since the outset of the financial crisis should diminish over time. The road to normalization will probably
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has filed a federal lawsuit against Diego Mariano Rolando of Buenos Aires, Argentina, trading as IA Trading.com, who is accused of defrauding hu
The Global Leveraged Index Fund, a quantitative and global macro strategy fund managed by Coburn Barrett, has a 12 year track record and an annualised return of 14.04 per cent since inception in 1998. The GLI Fund ranks in the
BlueBay Asset Management Ltd, a leading specialist manager of fixed income and alternative investment products, has launched a Private Lending business designed to facilitate the flow of credit to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Europe. The business will
London-based manager Matrix Group says its five funds of hedge funds that offer a share class where all of the growth is paid out as income half-yearly have delivered good dividend payment
The past few years have seen a substantial increase in programme trading on exchanges and an increase in the role played by high-frequency algorithmic traders.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has concluded the first primary market auction of EU emission allowances (EUA) for the third trading period on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany. As planned, a volume of three million EUA was auctioned
Charter Group has teamed up with Brian Taitz to launch a hedge fund administration firm, Charter Group Fund Administration. The firm is based in the City of London and focuses primarily on offshore funds managed by boutique fund managers. Taitz
Quant Insight, a London-based firm specialising in machine learning-driven macro analytics, in partnership with Euronext, has developed a new alternative data service, Macro Risk Insight, to provide asset managers with insight into the risk exposure of their investments to global macro factors. Macro
