Former Gartmore joint chief executive and finance director Andrew Brown has joined the board of Thames River Capital (UK) Ltd. Since retiring in 1999, Brown has been involved in providing gu
Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has appointed Paul Osment as director for leveraged credit sales reporting to Martin Bates, head of capital markets sales. In this newly created position, Osment will join the leveraged credit sales team covering banks and leveraged
MV Index Solutions has launched the MVIS Bitcoin US OTC Spot Index (MVBTCO), which is the first bitcoin index based on US price feeds from established OTC digital asset trading operations. The index shows the spot price of bitcoin
Decision Capital Management has entered into an agreement to introduce Agile Group’s Euro class fund to investors in Germany, Austria, Belgium and Sweden. “Agile Gr
Investors removed an estimated USD7.13 billion from the global hedge fund industry in October, pushing year-to-date (YTD) flows firmly negative at -USD10.09 billion. The October outflows follow an uninspiring year in hedge fund performance, culminating in October performance numbers that
Decision Capital Management (DCM) has signed up Centaur Capital Partners to manage assets with a long-biased, value-oriented equity strategy. The move, which is pa
Independent fund research company, Monterey Insight, has confirmed the Aztec Group is the leading fund administrator in Jersey for the third consecutive year, administering USD126.0 billion net assets and 181 funds. The annual Monterey Report provides a comprehensive analysis of
Cominvest, the fund subsidiary of German bank Commerzbank, is reportedly launching two funds of hedge funds. Both products are aimed at professional investors, such
FE, the investment data, research and software provider, has joined forces with fundinfo, a provider of services for asset managers and distributors in Europe and Asia, and F2C, the Luxembourg-based business which runs fund data management platform, publiFund. The combined
A new report from Greenwich Associates has identified several trends suggesting hedge funds are moving out of the “alternative” realm and into the mainstream. The r
