Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), Deputy Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the Island’s finance industry – explores how a range of factors, including listings capabilities, make Guernsey an attractive domicile for cleantech investment funds… Distinguishing features
Fiona Le Poidevin, Deputy Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the Island’s finance industry, explores how Guernsey is ideally suited to providing financial products and services for a rapidly developing Russia. Russia straddles Europe and Asia,
GSO Capital Partners, the credit business of The Blackstone Group, has held the final closing of the Blackstone/GSO Capital Solutions Fund with total commitments of over USD3.25bn. The fund’s strategy is focused on providing privately negotiated capital solutions to companies
The hedge fund industry posted an estimated inflow of USD4.0bn, or 0.3 per cent of assets, in May 2010, the third inflow in four months, according to TrimTabs Investment Research and BarclayHedge. But poor performance drove industry assets to USD1.58trn
SkyBridge Capital has committed to make an investment in Viathon Capital’s Whitewater fund. Whitewater is a credit opportunity fund focused on liquid debt instruments of US and European corporate issuers. The portfolio consists primarily of single-name loans and bonds selected through
Prime Management, a provider of fund administration services to the alternative investment industry, is to service three new risk-linked investment portfolios for Elementum Advisors. Elementum, a Chicago-based alternative investment manager specialising in risk-linked investments, will manage the portfolios and Prime
Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), a real-time FICC data analytics company, has launched a new feature for its MSX platform enabling users to instantly generate text reports on their trading activity data using machine learning. The feature will be available
The Bitcoin Fund, which is traded exclusively on the EXANTE fund platform and was launched in late 2012, is the best performing hedge fund year to date with a return of 4847 per cent. The Bitcoin Fund gives institutions and
The Scotiabank Canadian Hedge Fund Index ended April 2012 down 2.99% on an asset weighted basis and down 1.86% on an equal weighted basis. The aim of the Scotiabank Canadian Hedge Fund Index is to provide a comprehensive overview of
The European Commission has presented a financial services legislative package designed to raise standards and remove loopholes for the benefit of consumers. Specifically, the package proposes new, consumer-friendly standards for information about investments, raises standards for advice, and tightens certain
