Richard Bloom, Dennis Cancellarich, Ira Cooperman, Jerome Devillers, Pierre-Marie Lagnaud, George Parker and Anthony Stranix have been named Equity Partners at WeiserMazars while Debra Bornstein has been named Equity Principal. “WeiserMazars continues to experience strong growth and these promotions demonstrate
Challenger Limited’s boutique funds management division, Fidante Partners, is to acquire 100 per cent of European alternative investments group Dexion Capital Holdings Limited. Dexion has interests in three specialist fund managers, and also has an investments distribution business, based in
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft has appointed fund finance practitioners Michael C Mascia and Wesley A Misson as partners. The addition continues the firm's global expansion, with nine lateral partners and their teams joining the firm to date in 2015, and
HSBC Securities Services (HSS), part of HSBC’s Global Banking and Markets business, has been appointed by RWC Partners Limited to provide administration and global transfer agency services to five new alternative funds. These funds, which will be managed by RWC's
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for June 2015 measured -0.65 per cent, while hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index declined 2.71 per cent in July. “In terms of
Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has implemented two ASP back-office systems, THE STAR*1 and I-STAR*2, at Nomura Securities (Nomura), the largest securities firm in Japan. As a result, Nomura has successfully discontinued the use of its in-house back-office systems for retail
The FOMC meeting on 17 September caused market jitters as market participants were probably expecting the Fed to clarify its policy intentions. The stance of the FOMC was merely interpreted as a delay in the rate hike, with a first
Quad Group, consisting of Quad Capital Management, Quad Securities Holdings and Quad Advisors, has recently added several experienced futures traders to its growing team. The new hires are: John Curran, formerly of Caxton Phillip Gershgorin, formerly of Hetco Laura
Neuberger Berman has appointed Jonathan Geoghegan to the UK Financial Institutions and Intermediaries client group, effective immediately. Geoghegan will be contributing to the continued growth of the Neuberger Berman intermediary business; specifically focusing on broadening and deepening relationships across UK
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final technical standards (TS) on some of the most important pieces of post-crisis financial regulation: the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and the
