Schroders’ Emerging Markets Economist, Craig Botham, comments on the results of the recent Brazilian election… Brazil disappointed investors by returning incumbent Dilma Rousseff to the presidential office in Sunday’s vote. Hopes for reform to address Brazil’s structural economic problems have
Prologue Capital Management, an alternative investment adviser that manages a discretionary fixed income strategy, has added Robert Stever to its investor relations team. Stever will be responsible for investor relations in the US and will work out of the firm's
Cheyne Capital Management has appointed Paul Ruddleston and Paul Keohane as partners.
First Derivatives (FD) is to use the Pivotal One platform to deliver “next-generation” financial applications to the capital markets industry. FD plans to offer consulting services for the design and implementation of financial solutions in areas such as surveillance, risk
Assets under management of Luxembourg domiciled funds reached EUR3,006.76 billion at the end of September 2014. This represents a 14.97 per cent increase since the beginning of this year and is mainly due to net sales. Marc Saluzzi, chairman
SmartPool, a neutral dark liquidity pool created by NYSE Euronext in partnership with HSBC, J.P. Morgan and BNP Paribas, is expanding into trading pan-European mid cap securities.
By Jason Brandt (pictured) – Visionary service providers are always attuned to jurisdictions which provide a healthy and active client base within an environment that supports their operations. Establishing a presence at just the right time is as crucial as
PwC Luxembourg is the leading professional services firm in the country with around 2,400 people. Similarly, its Real Estate and Infrastructure team is the largest multidisciplinary team of specialists in the Grand Duchy with more than 250 experts supporting global
NYSE Liffe reached a daily volume record of 862,468 contracts in FTSE 100 Index futures on 18 March 2014. The previous record of 822,496 contracts was set on 17 March 2009. IntercontinentalExchange Group (ICE) and NYSE Liffe offer a
A true sign of how well a fund jurisdiction is doing is the level of growth, not just in new fund formations, but asset growth within administration firms. The onset of the AIFMD has opened up a new range of
