Prestige Fund Management and Affiliated companies (Prestige), a specialist direct lending investment management group has recently celebrated the seventh birthday of its “Alternative Finance Fund” by passing USD500 million/GBP350 million in assets under management. Group assets raised since 2008 now
Argonaut Capital founder Barry Norris (pictured) has assumed full ownership of the specialist European equity asset manager, subject to completion via a scheme of arrangement and regulatory approval. Formed as a joint venture between the Argonaut founders and Britannic Asset
Offshore law firm Campbells has appointed six new partners in its Cayman Islands and Hong Kong offices. Marianne Rajic will join Campbells’ Hong Kong office as a partner later this month. Rajic was previously a partner with Walkers in the
RueOne Investments has launched the first marketplace providing accredited and institutional investors direct access to a curated selection of alternative assets that are sourced, structured, and managed by industry leading asset managers. The recently passed Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS)
Against a choppy market backdrop which saw the MSCI World index close down 0.2 per cent for the first quarter of 2016, the HFRX Global Hedge Fund index remains negative for the year, although it was up 1.2 per cent
Angel Oak Capital Advisors, an investment management firm focused on opportunistic fixed income investment solutions, ahas hired Manish Valecha (pictured), CFA, as its Head of Institutional Alternatives. This appointment reflects Angel Oak Capital’s efforts to broaden its institutional investor outreach
The Hedge Fund Association (HFA), a leading global non-profit trade and nonpartisan lobbying organisation, is marking 20 years in operation in 2016 with a series of structural changes offering valuable independence and benefits to members. Created in 1996 to elevate
BNY Mellon has appointed Piers Murray as chief operating officer (COO) of its Markets business, effective 15 June, 2016. Murray will be based in New York and report to Michelle Neal, president of BNY Mellon Markets. Murray (pictured) will succeed
Jersey is recognised by international standard setters as one of the best regulated finance jurisdictions globally and its authorities have full knowledge of the beneficial owners of all Jersey companies, according to Geoff Cook, CEO (pictured), Jersey Finance. He welcomed
361 Capital, aninvestment firm specialising in liquid alternative mutual funds, has launched the 361 Domestic Long/Short Equity Fund. The Fund, which is sub-advised by Los Angeles-based Analytic Investors, uses the same innovative strategy as the firm’s high-performing 361 Global Long/Short
