Merlin Securities, a prime brokerage services and technology provider, has released the Merlin Compass iPad application. Merlin Compass for iPad is a real-time analytics platform that provides portfolio managers with intraday performance, exposure and risk metrics. Merlin’s hedge fund clients
Schulte Roth & Zabel (SRZ) has expanded its London office with the addition of partners Peter JM Declercq and Sonya Van de Graaff to the business reorganisation practice. Declercq and Van de Graaff (pictured) are joining the firm from
Mill Hill Capital (Mill Hill) has appointed Nick Pepe‎, a 13 year veteran of Citigroup’s Global Securitised Markets Division, as Partner, Managing Director, Head of Business Development and Head of Investor Relations. Pepe will start with Mill Hill in September 2018.
In March 2013, the international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 9.7 million contracts, down from 10.1 million contracts in March 2012. Of those, 7.3 million were Eurex Exchange contracts (March 2012: 7.4 million),
Qatar Reinsurance Company Limited (Qatar Re), a multi-line reinsurer authorised by the Bermuda Monetary Authority, is to cease writing new and renewal business from its branch office in Singapore, with effect from 20 July 2018. The Company says it will
March 2013 was the third consecutive month in which total volume in futures on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) and total exchange-wide trading reached new all-time highs. A record 3,220,977 VIX futures contracts traded during March, exceeding the 3,062,344
Fulcrum Asset Management has listened to the UK institutional marketplace and launched a fund that it believes will meet a series of key considerations. Speaking with Hedgeweek at a coffee shop opposite Fulcrum’s office in Marble Arch, London, Matthew Roberts
Aquiline Capital Partners, a New York-based private equity firm investing in the financial services sector, and Genstar Capital, a middle market private equity firm based in San Francisco, are to acquire Genworth Wealth Management from Genworth Financial for USD412.5m.
Investors withdrew an estimated USD7.88 billion from global hedge funds in June 2018, bringing overall Q2 2018 net flows for the industry to -USD5.43 billion, according to the eVestment June and Q2 2018 Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report. Industry assets
The Alternative Investment Management Association says there has been considerable progress on the content of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive following the compromise reached yesterday by EU ministers. Aima had previously expressed grave reservations about some of the directive’s
