Union Investment, one of the largest German asset managers for private and institutional investors, has adopted EurexOTC Clear for Interest Rate Swaps (IRS). The company has been connected as an individually segregated client since end of March and has cleared
Insparo Asset Management has bolstered its investment and research team with the appointment of Mahan Namin as assistant portfolio manager. Namin has been brought in to help the firm expand further into the area of foreign exchange and rates trading
Quintillion has been chosen to provide administration services to the Investment Funds managed by Insparo Asset Management Limited (Insparo). Based in London, Insparo’s flagship Africa and Middle East Fund has returned 33% since launching in June 08. A second fund,
Impact Investments Partners AG, the parent company of Blue Diamond Asset Management AG, has hired Tobias Mueller as Head of European Business Development. Mueller is based in Wollerau, Switzerland and joins from Grantham, Mayo & Van Otterloo (GMO) where he
Asset Risk Consultants (ARC) has appointed Paul Meader, an experienced portfolio manager, to launch the firm’s new fund solutions division. ARC has been providing risk management reporting to trustees and institutions for almost 20 years and the appointment of
Highbridge Capital Management has appointed Todd Builione, the firm’s Chief Operating Officer, as President and Chief Operating Officer. Builione joined Highbridge in 2005 as the firm’s first Head of Corporate Strategy and was promoted in 2009 to Chief Operating Officer.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission (Commissions) have delivered to Congress a joint staff study on “the feasibility of requiring the derivatives industry to adopt standardised computer-readable algorithmic descriptions that may be used to describe
RiverRock European Capital Partners has acquired a controlling stake in Chenavari Financial Advisors, the broker-dealer business of Chenavari Financial Group. The transaction was completed on 17 May 2013 and the business has been renamed RiverRock Securities (RRS). Established
Emerging markets hedge funds recorded total investments of USD151 billion, after accumulating over USD1.8 billion during the first quarter of 2013. According to the latest data from Hedge Fund Research, the first quarter’s inflow follows another strong performance in the last quarter
ML Capital has appointed Dr Dermot F Smurfit as chairman of the ML Capital Group of Companies, effective 23 April 2013. Cyril Delamare, chief executive, says: "Dr Dermot F Smurfit’s appointment will further strengthen and help ML Capital build on
