AITEC and the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global representative for alternative asset managers, have launched a co-branded Illustrative Questionnaire for Due Diligence of Vendor Cyber Security. The DDQ has been created to streamline the process of conducting due
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an order filing and settling charges against Agrocorp International Pte Ltd, a commodities trading and distribution company headquartered in Singapore, for failing to file CFTC Form 304 Reports reporting its call
BarclayHedge has ranked Elberon Investment Fund as one of the world's top-performing "long bias" equity funds for the three-year period ending on 31 March 2016. Elberon, which is managed by Bruce Salomon, ranked number eight globally and number two in
Sprott Asset Management, a USD10 billion Toronto-based alternative asset manager, has rolled out a second iteration of the firm’s private credit trust strategy, Sprott Private Credit Trust II, with hedge fund specialist Arif N Bhalwani. Bhalwani is the chief executive officer and managing director of Third Eye Capital Management, a sub-adviser to Sprott Asset Management.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a peer review on the efficiency and effectiveness of European Union (EU) national securities markets regulators’ approval of prospectuses, the disclosure documents prepared by issuers when they want to market their
Martin Jonsson and Anders Wennberg have been recruited as new senior managers for the team at the Catella Hedgefond fund. “We are pleased and proud to be able to announce Martin Jonsson and Anders Wennberg as new senior fund managers
FIX Trading Community has released Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) version 1.0 Draft Standard to support high performance demands in transactions and/or data feeds. Recent improvements in the speed of hardware, software and network connections have prompted the High Performance Working
RSRCHXchange, the online marketplace for institutional research, has formed a strategic partnership with Substantive Research, an independent curator of daily macroeconomic investment research for asset managers and asset owners. The partnership will close the gap between new research and point
Alternative investment manager CVC Credit Partners has held the final closing of its Global Special Situations Fund, which is focused on stressed and distressed corporate credit predominantly across Europe. The CVC Credit Partners Global Special Situations Fund received strong backing
Bill Prew (pictured) from the INDOS Group has written a note on the implications of Brexit on AIFMD depositaries. “A UK withdrawal from the European Union (EU) following the 23 June 2016 ‘Brexit’ Referendum has potential implications on the existing requirement
