Marcum has named Help for Children – Hedge Funds Care (HFC) as the exclusive charity beneficiary of the 2017 Marcum MicroCap Conference. A percentage of proceeds from the accounting and advisory firm’s annual investor conference will be donated to support
Hedge fund industry assets climbed above USD3 trillion for the first time this year in May as investors continued allocating to hedge funds, according to eVestment’s May 2016 Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report. But at USD3.014 billion, funds are barely
ifund and fundinfo have launched Digital-Advisor, a cloud-based system for fund selection. The tool scores active and passive funds based on scientific criteria derived from up-do-date and in-depth research on a wide range of success factors. It analyses data
StatPro Group, an AIM-listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has joined the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), an organisation dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure
A UK-based investment adviser and its Chief Investment Officer (CIO) have agreed to pay more than USD2.5 million to settle charges that they breached their fiduciary duties by operating two private funds in a manner inconsistent with their prior disclosures
The US CFTC has charged former CBOE member Alvin Guy Wilkinson and his limited partnerships Chicago Index Partners (CIP) and Wilkinson Financial Opportunity Fund (WFOF) with fraud and acting as unregistered Commodity Pool Operators. The CFTC Complaint also charges Wilkinson with providing false statements
Perhaps it is apt that Protégé Partners, LLC is located above the world-renowned Museum of Modern Art in New York given that its modus operandi is to find the best and most creative talents in the hedge fund industry. Some seed
Eighty-nine per cent of asset managers, brokers and banks believe that regulations are increasing costs, and most believe that compliance spend could more than double in five years, according to a survey from professional services firm Duff & Phelps. The
RIMES, together with the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and the Financial Markets Law Committee (FMLC), has cautioned compliance teams against overlooking important regulatory challenges during its first Regulatory Seminar. Investment managers need to comply with MAD II
Geneva-based asset manager Quaero Capital has appointed James Hepworth as head of sales for the UK, charged with building relationships with UK institutional investors from the firm’s London office. Hepworth, 53, joins Quaero Capital in April from Paris-based Asset Managers
