For any hedge fund manager, winning a mandate from a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is the Holy Grail. These are the biggest institutional investors on the planet and also offer, potentially, the stickiest capital given their multi-year investment horizons. One
S&P Capital IQ has launched a new intra-day municipal bond pricing service designed to assist regulatory and industry efforts aimed at bringing about greater transparency to the market. Provided by Standard & Poor's Securities Evaluations Inc., a business unit
C12 Capital Management, an independent firm with nearly USD13bn invested in fixed income and credit strategies, has appointed Richard Geller and Kara Margolis to focus on global investor relations. Geller joins C12 as head of investor relations and has more
International legal, tax, fiduciary and fund services group Maitland has appointed David Kubilus to the newly-created role of head of business development, client management and marketing. Kubilus (pictured), a US national, is an international executive with experience in both the
Over 50 per cent of firms are struggling with the technology challenges required to deliver competitive, quality reports, according to a white paper released by VistaOne Solutions, a division of CoreOne Technologies. In January and February 2014, Wall Street &
VAM Funds (VAM) and Close Brothers Asset Management (CBAM) have teamed up to offer discretionary fund management (DFM) services to non-UK-based advisers and their clients. Increasing uptake of discretionary fund management services comes as international advisers move away from self-selecting
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) – the international standards-setter for tax transparency and cooperation – has underlined Guernsey’s reputation as a cooperative jurisdiction. Monica Bhatia, Head of the Secretariat of the OECD Global Forum on Transparency and
Taliance, an analytics software provider in the alternative investment marketplace, has selected Hipercept, to serve as its channel partner for North and South America. Taliance’s software solution, GlobalAsset, complements the technology infrastructure of alternative asset investment firms through real-time, dynamic
Hedge funds suffered a blow in June, with the Lyxor Hedge Fund Index down 2 per cent. The industry is nonetheless outperforming traditional asset classes in a context in which the correlation between equities and bonds is positive. In June,
Hawksford has appointed Moira Ashby as an associate director. Ashby (pictured) will be part of the team responsible for defining, building and growing Hawksford’s corporate business. A tax specialist, she has had extensive exposure to a large variety of corporate
