Leaders of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Financial Services Agency of Japan (JFSA) have signed a memorandum of cooperation (MOC) regarding the supervision and oversight of regulated entities that operate on a cross-border basis in the
BNP Paribas, following a competitive tender, has implemented a mandate to provide fund administration to Equinox Fund Management (Equinox), a US alternative asset manager with more than USD1.5 billion in assets under management. BNP Paribas administers a platform of independent
Investment research provider Morningstar has launched Morningstar Direct Alternative Investment Edition, a multicurrency institutional research platform that provides performance analysis
Judge Richard W Story of the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, has entered an emergency order freezing the assets of defendants Robert A Christy of Milton, Georgia, and his company Crabapple Capital Group LLC (Crabapple) of Alpharetta, Georgia. The
U.S. Bancorp Fund Services has named Gerald Barbara Pictured as senior vice president and alternative investment business development officer. Barbara specialises in alternative investment administration and custody services and will work out of Wilmington, Del. “We are excited to have
Stenham Asset Management has announced the launch of a Japanese yen share class in its Stenham Multi-Strategy Fund, complementing the existing US dollar, euro and sterling classes.
Jean L’Homme, a banking and finance lawyer previously with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, has joined Proskauer Rose, an international law firm with more than 750 lawyers worldwide, as a p
Rothschild Larch Lane Management Company has launched a liquid, open end alternatives mutual fund which uses a risk balanced approach to portfolio construction. Using a multi-manager structure, the Rothschild Larch Lane Alternatives Fund offers diversification across a variety of asset
EFAMA has welcomed the publication by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) of its Consultation Paper setting out future guidelines on UCITS Exchange-Traded Funds (UCITS ETFs) and other UCITS issues. Broadly speaking, EFAMA supports ESMA’s proposals in favour of
Singapore Exchange (SGX) and the Shanghai Futures Exchange are cooperating in the development of the commodity derivatives markets in both China and Singapore. The two exchanges signed a memorandum of understanding on the cooperation in Shanghai, China, on 19 October
