Alternative investment placement firm C.P. Eaton Partners has appointed Franklyn D. Chang, who has already been working for the firm in Connecticut, Christopher J.
London- and Geneva-based hedge fund investment adviser and consultant Laven Partners is calling for the adoption of a standardised hedge fund valuation agreement in order to increase inves
Funds advised by Pamplona Capital Management have sold a large holding of mortgage backed securities that forms part of a securitisation structure backed by approximately 2,000 UK mortgages with a total value of approximately GBP285 million. Pamplona sold the securities
Judge John F Grady of the US. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has entered a final judgment against Jeffrey R. Neufeld (Neufeld) and Paridon Capital Management LLC (Paridon) of Elgin, Illinois for defrauding the TCM Global Strategy
Japan’s Pension Fund Association (PFA) has chosen MSCI’s RiskMetrics HedgePlatform as their hedge fund transparency provider. PFA, which currently manages JPY10 trillion (USD 120 billion), was established under the Employees’ Pension Insurance Act in Japan. It provides pension benefits to
The Hedge Fund Association (HFA) has submitted a comment letter to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as the regulatory agency considers proposed changes to the definition of an “accredited investor” under Rule 501 of Regulation D. The HFA
Resolution Asset Management investment manager Stuart Thomson says the UK bailout blueprint for the financial sector that been adopted by the rest of the world, a combination of equity inj
The CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) and DRW Trading Group have completed an agreement that will allow CFE to use DRW’s patent-pending methodology to create variance futures that match the quoting conventions and economic performance of over-the-counter (OTC) stock index variance
The CBOE Futures Exchange saw new single-day volume records for total trading volume exchange-wide at CFE and for futures on the CBOE Volatility Index on 1 August. Total volume at CFE was an estimated 530,794 contracts traded, which surpassed the
The negotiations between GLG Partners and star manager Greg Coffey serve to illustrate an old adage often cited by institutional investors when grilling potential managers – do not rely on
