Brice Beumo, previously a senior associate at Renaissance Capital who focused on developing specialty finance business initiatives in francophone Africa, has joined Denmark-based investmen
Morgan Stanley this week launched a new UCITS fund giving investors exposure to Dalton Investment LLC’s Asia strategy. The MS Dalton Asia Pacific UCITS Fund is the latest UCITS fund to join Morgan Stanley’s FundLogic Alternatives plc umbrella. The fund
MI Trade, the ground-breaking online platform created last year by Man Investments to provide daily trading in hedge funds, has handled more than USD110m in trading orders in its first sev
FRSGlobal, a provider of risk and regulatory compliance solutions, is preparing to work with the hedge fund industry to help it comply with the new wave of global regulations expected t
Paris-based Axiom Alternative Investments has strengthened its institutional business by hiring Christina Perri as director of international business development. Perri, previously worked at Winton Capital Management as vice president in charge of business dedicated to institutional customers in the UK,
HSBC has appointed Tony McDonnell as managing director for HSBC Securities Services (Ireland) Limited (HSSI). McDonnell will be responsible for running the HSS operation in Ireland and growing its book of business. He will report to Arjun Bambawale, head
BlueCrest’s Leda Braga is to leave the USD27bn hedge fund operation to separately run her USD8.3bn systematic fund BlueTrend, plus the smaller BlueMatrix fund, under a new company called Systematica Investments. Systematica Investments will be majority-owned by Braga and her
Thames River Capital has launched the EUR37.7m Thames River Kingsway Plus fund to offer investors a more aggressive risk/return profile than the EUR345.4m Kingsway Fund by taking on twice
Third-party hedge fund marketing firm Agecroft Partners has hired Wall Street veteran Tim Driscoll as a managing director with responsibilities that include assisting with due diligence on
PIMCO co-founder and CIO William H Gross is leaving the firm to join Janus Capital Group where he will manage the recently launched Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund and related strategies. Gross joins Myron Scholes, PhD, and other members of
