KPMG has hired 30-year industry veteran Michael Cross as director of account relationships as the firm continues to expand its alternative investments (AI) team serving the Southeast US. Cross, who has and continues to hold leadership roles with hedge
KB Associates, a consulting firm to the asset management community, has appointed Peter Northcott as an Executive Director. Northcott joins KB Associates’ London office where he will be responsible for offering Hedge Fund start-up consultancy, due diligence advisory, change management
Citadel has announced the appointment of Peter Little as chief executive to lead the next phase of the company’s growth plans.
The Managed Funds Association, the US industry body representing hedge fund managers, has recommended that the industry adopt heightened standards of excellence embodied in the latest vers
BlackRock and MarketAxess have formed an alliance to create a unified, open trading solution in the US credit markets. The alliance between BlackRock’s Aladdin Trading Network (ATN) and electronic credit trading specialist MarketAxess is designed to help reduce liquidity
Derivatives lawyer Robert Scherer has joined Vinson & Elkins’ finance practice group as counsel in New York. Scherer (pictured), who joins V&E from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, focuses his practice on the representation of banks, dealers and other market
JPMorgan Hedge Fund Services has been appointed to provide fund administration and custody services to funds of hedge funds managed by Financial Risk Management, which has a portfolio tota
The Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index Group has launched the Credit Suisse/Tremont AllHedge Index, a new investible hedge fund index derived from the group’s Credit Suisse/Tremont Hed
Bruno Wu aims to raise a USD500 million private-equity fund for media investments, focusing on companies targeting expansion in Asia, especially China. Wu, who is married to Yang Lan, a television personality, who some have compared to Oprah Winfrey, is
State Street Corporation has expanded its end-to-end derivatives solution to include an execution platform for the trading of derivatives products. The launch of this swap execution facility (SEF), SwapEx, coincides with the 2012 implementation of significant regulatory changes in the
