Responding to growing market demand for European domiciled investment fund products, and the emergence of Dublin as a centre for alternative investment products, DMS Management Ltd (DMS) has opened a new office in Dublin, Ireland. Led by Irish resident principals
Maurice ‘Chip’ Perkins, one of the founding members of diversified alternative asset manager MKP Capital Management, is to retire from the firm with effect from the end of 2011. In addition, Anoop Dhakad and Katherine Plavan are to lead MKP
The Qatar Financial Centre Authority has appointed Yousef Abdulla Fakhroo as director of marketing and corporate communications. Fakhroo was previously global communications manager at Qatar Petroleum International. He has also held senior marketing and communications positions at RasGas and
Vistra announced has been selected to provide fund administration services for the innovative Privium Selection Fund platform (SCA SICAV-SIF) via its specialist fund services division operating out of Luxembourg. The Privium Selection Fund will be managed by Privium Fund Management
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged dark pool alternative trading system operator Liquidnet with improperly using subscribers’ confidential trading information in marketing its services. Regulations require an alternative trading system (ATS) to establish and enforce safeguards and procedures
NYSE Euronext has appointed Finbarr Hutcheson as Executive Vice President Global OTC Services. Hutcheson takes up his appointment on 1 July and will work closely with market users to develop new services to support the global over-the-counter (OTC) markets in response
GlobeOp Financial Services has partnered with Linedata Services to offer an ASP-delivered, front-office order management system fully integrated with GlobeOp’s middle- and back-office services. Time to market is reduced for start-up long/short equity managers and commodity trading advisers. Both new
The Honorable Judge John Antoon II of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida has ordered Capital Blu Management, LLC (Capital Blu) of Melbourne, Fla., Donovan Davis Jr. of Palm Bay, Fla., Damien Bromfield of Ocoee, Fla.,
Progress Software has joined forces with Statistical Research Laboratory, a company developing software for financial trading desks, to provide a trading technology solution for brokers and hedge funds. The SRL solution will be powered by the Progress Apama complex event
Following the retirement of Appleby British Virgin Islands (BVI) office managing partner Michael Burns earlier this year, Hong Kong-based partner Jeffrey Kirk has been appointed to assume the leadership. Kirk and his family will relocate to the BVI from the
