Halcyon Liquid Strategies UCITS Management and Guggenheim Partners (Guggenheim) have launched the GFS Halcyon Liquid Opportunities Fund, an opportunistic catalyst-driven UCITS fund domiciled in Ireland. Launched on the Guggenheim Fund Solutions platform, the Fund will utilise Halcyon’s investment expertise to
The financial and industrials sectors saw the largest amount of hedge fund buying activity in Q4 2014, with Industrials always being a net buy throughout the calendar year. That’s according to S&P Capital IQ's latest Quarterly Hedge Fund Tracker, a
The Board of Directors of ALTIN AG has set the strike price of the put options to be issued as part of its share buyback programme at USD64. The strike price is set at a 13.6% premium above the closing
Euronext has signed a tripartite agreement with grain storage specialist Sénalia and LCH.Clearnet SA. Euronext’s relationship with storage silos operated by Socomac and Sica Nord-Céréales will be harmonised under the agreement. With 750,000 tonnes of milling wheat storage capacity
Concept Capital, an institutional broker and total solutions provider to the investment management industry, has partnered with SAS, a provider of business analytics software and services. As a result of the collaboration, Concept Capital will offer a full suite of
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed and simultaneously settled charges against Howard Winell, Winell Associates, Inc and Maxie Partners GP over unauthorised trading and misappropriating funds in connection with operating a commodity futures and options pool. The
An innovative new platform has emerged in Pfaffikon, Switzerland that could potentially revolutionise the way investors gain access to global hedge fund managers. The platform is called Fundbase and is the brainchild of Michael Appenzeller (pictured), its co-founder and president.
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for February 2015 measured 3.64%, up from 2.49% in January. “Redemption requests increased for the month of February, but remain consistent with historical averages,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies.
“This is not another AIFMD regulation. It is much simpler, much cheaper and fairly easy to implement,” states Roman Pelka (pictured), founder of Montfort Funds, a specialist provider of Swiss fund representation services, when discussing the need to appoint a
Alternative investment specialist Advanced Capital and hedge fund incubator IMQubator have made a EUR50million joint seed investment in the new mCapital European & Asian Special Situations Fund. Launched on 11 February 2011, the mCapital fund offers a niche investment
