Japan’s biggest life insurer, Nippon Life Insurance Co, which holds around USD640billion of assets, plans to invest more in privat
FRM Capital Advisors (FCA) – the seeding arm of Financial Risk Management, a leading London-based FoHFs group with USD9billion in assets – is planning to commit seed
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has published proposals to ban the promotion of Unregulated Collective Investment Schemes (UCIS) and similar products to the vast majority of retail investors in the UK. The proposed rules mean that, in the retail market,
Two units of New York hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC are being sued by ex-employee, Zain Fancy, in Singapore reported Bloomberg this wee
Capstone Investment Advisors has closed its Singapore office, its only Asian footprint, and decided to centralize its trading operations in London and its New York headquarters reported FINalter
Daiwa Capital Markets Hong Kong, part of Daiwa Securities Group Inc. is pleased to announce the appointment of Joost Lobler as Head of Sales for Asia (ex Japan) for its Global Asset Services product. Global Asset Services offers fund
Independent fund administration company Apex Fund Services is to open its first office in Australia. The Apex Sydney office has been launched following the acquisition of Lazorne Fund Administration Service from Lazorne Group Pty Ltd. Apex also intends to open
More than two-thirds (67 per cent) of alternative investment fund managers say they are still concerned about reporting to local regulators, despite nearly all (95 per cent) saying they feel informed on the requirements of AIFMD. This is one of
Mulvaney Capital Management has appointed Dudley Fishburn (pictured) as Non-Executive Chairman. Fishburn has broad experience in corporate governance across the world having served on the Board of HSBC Bank plc from 2002 to 2009 and is currently a director of
Algorithmics, a provider of enterprise risk solutions, has launched Algo Strategic Business Planning, a product that provides a banks’ senior management with a comprehensive view of their operations, and the ability to stress, forecast and optimise over a range of
