The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has appointed Reena Walia as managing director of Equities Risk Management in its Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Group. In her new position, Walia will lead a team charged with assessing risk management across
Germany’s Universal-Investment has announced the acquisition of SEB Master KAG, a UCITS platform, a move which Universal-Investment spokesperson Bernd Vorbeck said will strength
The CFTC has announced that Bloomberg SEF’s available-to-trade determinations (MAT determinations) for certain interest rate swap (IRS) and credit default swap (CDS) contracts are now self-certified. This self-certification involves only certain IRS and CDS contracts made available to trade via
Infonic, provider of HedgeSphere, a product suite for operations of funds of hedge funds, has named Nolan Phillips as chief operating officer and Bridget Piraino as head of global marke
The Board of Directors of the National Futures Association (NFA) has elected W Robert Felker, Chairman of JPMorgan Futures Inc, to serve another one-year term as Chairman and Christopher K. Hehmeyer, Non-Executive Chairman at Penson GHCO, to serve as Vice-Chairman.
The Collingwood Group has appointed Mark DeGennaro as Managing Director to help build the firm’s hedge fund/private equity advisory and principal investment businesses. Prior to joining Collingwood, DeGennaro was a Managing Director of a privately held boutique investment-banking firm
HSBC has launched a High Net Worth & Institutional share classes for the HSBC Next Generation Fund. The HSBC Next Generation Fund invests in new and upcoming hedge fund managers globally aiming for an annualised target return of 12% to
Law firm Dechert has appointed Mark Browne as a partner with the firm’s financial services group in its Dublin office. “We are delighted to have Mark join us,” says Peter Astleford, Dechert’s global financial services group co-chair. “Mark’s experience, dynamism
Hedge funds redeemed an estimated USD15.2 billion (0.9% of assets) in January 2012 – the highest outflow since July 2009 – while underperforming the S&P 500 by 110 basis points for the month, according to research by BarclayHedge and TrimTabs
Stephen Darling is joining CIBC on 1 March as Managing Director with the firm’s currencies team in London. Darling has 19 years of foreign exchange trading experience with the London operations of the Royal Bank of Canada where he
