Gamma Finance, a provider of advisory services to the alternative investment sector, has been awarded advisory mandates of USD500m by clients seeking to optimise exits from a diverse range of lower-liquidity assets, including real estate and private equity positions. Placement

2100 Xenon Group, an affiliate of Old Mutual Asset Management (OMAM), is to acquire the majority ownership interest in its business from its parent company OMAM. The transaction, the value of which was not disclosed, is expected to close by

Alternative investment firm Hatteras Funds will host a series of forums across the US for financial advisers, home office research teams and consultants to meet the underlying hedge fund managers of the Hatteras Alternative Mutual Funds. Following a similar forum

In anticipation of the implementation of Basel 3, which will commence in 2013, the investment guidelines prescribed for money market funds have been amended by the Registrar of Collective Investment Schemes – effective 1 July 2012. As a result of

Liontrust Asset Management PLC made a pre-tax profit of GBP1.7 million for the six months to 30 September 2011, according to the company’s latest Half Yearly report, This compares favourably with a loss of GBP3.9 million for the same period

Despite fears this year that the US municipal bond market would suffer large-scale defaults it’s held up well. Last December, banking analyst Meredith Whitney predicted hundreds of billions of dollars of defaults. So far, however, there’s only been USD2.8billion in

Ramius, the alternative investment management business of Cowen Group, has published a report on the liquid alternative investment space with a particular focus on managed futures investing. The report, co-authored by Ramius Trading Strategies chief executive officer William Marr (pictured)