At a hedge fund conference in Zurich this week, a panel of three investment managers: Julian Jacobsen, Managing Director FPP Asset Management; Max von Bismarck (pictured), Managing Partner and CEO for SkyBridge Capital’s international operations; and Adriano Agosti, Chairman and
Fund administration company Apex Fund Services has opened an office in San Francisco. The ongoing expansion of the Apex Global Network around concentrations of fund managers meant San Francisco was the logical choice to base its West coast business development
The sixth Jax Coco Hedge Fund Fight Nite, which featured seven bouts between members of the Hong Kong hedge fund community, raised over HKD500,000 for charity. Approximately 550 guests attended the black-tie event to support the fighters and to lend
The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Index was up 0.96 per cent in July, according to Jordan Drachman, head of research for alternative beta strategies at Credit Suisse. Drachman says: "The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Index (CSLAB), which aims
After building up market expectations to near euphoric levels, ECB President Mario Draghi failed to deliver the policy to back up his promises of “doing whatever it takes to save the Euro”, says Azad Zangana (pictured), European economist at Schroders…
Paul Mumford (pictured), Senior Investment Manager of Cavendish Asset Management (CAM), the specialist long only active equity fund manager, believes that now is the time for investors to consider taking a more positive approach to equity investing… I was quite
Swiss bank UBS is to shed 10,00 jobs worldwide over the next three years as it overhauls its investment banking operations. The cuts, which amount to some 16 per cent of the bank’s current worldwide workforce of 64,000, are aimed
UBS has decided to fold its proprietary trading hedge fund operation Dillon Read Capital Management (DRCM) into the investment bank less than two years after unveiling plans to set up the
Misys has launched new generation of collaborative risk management solutions, under the name of Misys Global Risk (MGR). The solution’s best-in-class risk, regulatory and workflow modules collaborate with a firm’s in-house or third-party systems in a single enterprise risk technology
The outcome of this week’s US Presidential election will hopefully provide us with a signal for the direction of economic policy in a number of key areas. The most important of these is the “fiscal cliff” – a potent combination
