Toby Nangle, Director, Multi-Asset and Fixed Income Team at Baring Asset Management, unravels the funding implications of the UK’s latest Budget. The UK government funding requirement for 2009/10 was forecast in today’s Budget to be GBP167 billion, a substantial rise
Emerging market-focused hedge funds continue to curry favour with investors as their faith in a European and US economic recovery wavers.
Jérôme de Lavenère Lussan, CEO of hedge fund consultancy Laven Partners, comments on the UK Financial Services Authority’s first operation carried out with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), resulting in the arrests this week of six men on suspicion of
MF Global, a broker offering customised solutions in global cash and derivatives markets, has appointed Jon S. Corzine as chairman and chief executive officer, effective immediately. Alison J. Carnwath will be retiring from the board at its next shareholders’ meeting
A trader at the London-arm of New York hedge fund Moore Capital is one of the six men arrested on Tuesday morning in a series of early-morning raids on 16 addresses in London, Oxfordshire and the south east of England.
Morgan Stanley’s Dublin-based UCITS umbrella, FundLogic Alternatives Plc, has added another new fund to its stable.
Linedata has released a new version of its transfer agency software Linedata Mshare, which is designed to address client concerns over both regulatory compliance and how to attract new business. This release includes FATCA withholding tax capabilities, Anti-Money Laundering (AML)
The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has approved the launch of stock options on the shares of two additional companies, Bezeq and Perrigo. The trading of these new options will commence on 28 August 2014. The launch of the
US broker-dealer BTIG has extended its Asia footprint by opening an outsource trading desk in Hong Kong reported FINalternatives this week.
Ticonderoga Securities, an institutional broker dealer, has expanded its sales and trading team with the addition of Kevin Backus, formerly of SJ Levinson & Sons. Backus will work closely with the firm’s team of research analysts to deliver clients differentiated
