Appleby has acquired Caledonian Trust (IOM) and Caledonian Fund Services (Europe) as part of the group’s ongoing strategy to grow its fiduciary and administration business. Sean Dowling (pictured), office managing partner of Appleby (Isle of Man), says: “We have continued
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has notified the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) of the results of a rule enforcement review completed by the Commission’s division of market oversight. The review covered the
Chris Clarke outlines the investment process of the Westferry Global Markets Fund, which opened to third-party accredited investors in September 2006.
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published its technical advice evaluating the impact of the regulation on short selling and certain aspects of credit default swaps on European financial markets. ESMA has prepared this in response to a
Ogier claimed the top spot at the 2006 Alpha magazine’s second annual Hedge Funds Service Providers Awards held on 12 September 2006 in New York City.
Heptagon Capital has achieved a Gold fund rating from S&P Capita IQ Fund Research for its Ireland-domiciled Yacktman US Equity Fund (based on a US mutual fund). London-based Heptagon Capital is an independent investment firm with over USD7.2billion in AuM
Misys, the application software and services company, has launched Misys Risk Insight, a new way of visualising and managing risk across the organisation. The solution from Misys is both a risk aggregation tool and a presentation dashboard that gives banks
Michelle Carroll (pictured), Partner of the Financial Services Group at BDO, comments on the IMA issuing a public consultation on fund charges… We welcome the proposed changes by the Investment Management Association (IMA) to the disclosure of investment fund charges
The Securities and Exchange Commission is carrying out the second-largest trading suspension in agency history as it continues its "Operation Shell Expel" crackdown against the manipulation of microcap shell companies that are ripe for fraud as they lay dormant in
According to Singapore-based hedge fund research and fund advisory firm GFIA, medium sized Asia (ex-Japan) long-short equity funds – those that manage USD250 million to USD750 million – perform the best. According to GFIA’s July “Insight” report in 2008, USD450
