This week the European Securities and Markets Authority ("ESMA") issued a final report containing new guidelines on collateral management by UCITS ("New Guidelines") (ESMA/2014/294). As detailed by law firm Maples and Calder, the consultation was held to review the requirements
Tim Love and Joaquim Nogueira have both left CQS to join GAM as Investment Director and Investment Manager, respectively. Love and Nogueira join GAM’s London office to manage a UCITS product in the GAM Star range, an actively-managed long emerging
Emerging managers expect their hedge funds to achieve gains of 10% or more in 2012, according to the GAIM USA Survey of Emerging Hedge Fund Managers. The survey of 90 emerging managers (defined as having USD250 million or less in assets
Tikehau Investment Management is making a further push into the primary credit and private debt markets by hiring Fabrice Damien from Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Damien was most recently responsible for corporate finance and leverage finance in France for
BlackRock has made its family of money market funds available to Euroclear Bank’s clients, enabling them to re-invest cash received as collateral in triparty transactions managed by Euroclear Bank. Re-investing cash collateral is a frequent challenge in this type of
JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services has releases HEDGE:ahead, a comprehensive resource guide aimed at helping hedge funds in Asia navigate the complexities of launch. HEDGE:ahead, which was developed by JP Morgan’s Hedge Fund Services team in conjunction with leading industry
ICAP, a markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, has made an investment in Enso Financial Management (EFM), an early-stage firm providing hedge funds and asset managers with portfolio reporting and data analytics services.
The Hedge Fund Association (HFA) has appointed Edward Foreman, a Tax Partner at Price Waterhouse Coopers, as Director of its Midwest Chapter. The Midwest Chapter’s new leadership will be introduced on March 22 at the HFA Symposium on Government Impact
Traiana, a provider of post-trade solutions, is to launch direct connectivity between Traiana’s Harmony CCP Connect and LCH.Clearnet’s foreign exchange clearing service, ForexClear, for non-deliverable forwards (NDFs) clearing. Traiana’s Harmony CCP Connect provides a workflow solution via the Harmony network
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged Gary D Martin and his wife, Brenda K Martin of St. Augustine, Fla. (collectively, the Martins), and their company, Queen Shoals Consultants, LLC (QSC), of Charlotte, NC, with defrauding customers of
