The UCITS Alternative Index Global suffered its third month of losses in the last four months as fund managers running onshore versions of their hedge fund strategies failed to avoid the mar
NYSE Liffe, the European derivatives business of NYSE Euronext, is to list futures contracts on the Russell Europe SMID 300 Index on its wholesale derivatives service, Bclear. The futures contract will be launched on 1 October 2012. The Russell Europe
FRM, Man Group’s fund of hedge fund division, has formed a strategic relationship with CommEq Asset Management which involves FRM making a seed allocation to CommEq and helping CommEq launch an institutional asset management business. CommEq seeks out previously
Cube Capital has expanded its research team with the appointment of Rui Tang as an investment analyst for the firm’s flagship Global Multi-Strategy (CGMS) Fund. Although based in Cube’s Hong Kong office, Tang will be a generalist assisting with research
Quincy Data has added highly liquid exchange-traded funds to its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service. QED now delivers the most liquid equity ETFs sourced from Nasdaq’s Carteret, New Jersey data centre to CME Group’s data centre located in Aurora, Illinois
Morgan Stanley Capital Group (MSCGI) has agreed to pay a USD200,000 civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC charges that it exceeded speculative position limits in soybean meal futures contracts trading on the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). The CFTC order
Institutional fund managers have undertaken a dramatic shift to direct hedge fund investing following the global financial crisis, according to a new survey from Citi Prime Finance. The survey, “Global Pensions and Sovereign Wealth Funds Investment in Hedge Funds:
Preqin research shows that the number of public pension systems investing in hedge funds has increased significantly over the past four years. There are now 295 public pension plans worldwide known to be allocating to hedge funds, up from 196
David Goldstein and Gerald Rokoff, both formerly with White & Case LLP, have joined DLA Piper as partners in New York. Goldstein joins the firm’s global Finance Group and will lead the Investment Funds Practice. Rokoff joins the Tax Group.
UBS has announced the appointment of John Dyment as Global Head of Hedge Fund Distribution, based in New York. Dyment will be responsible for the management and development of UBS’s strategically important hedge fund franchise, with global functional responsibility for
