The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed rule amendments that aim to substantially increase protections for investors who entrust their money to investment advisers.
Asian hedge fund manager, Orchard Capital Partners Ltd, has seen assets in its Orchard Gemini Fund, which began trading January this year, catapult from USD7millio
AIS Fund Administration has launched AIS IR Manager, a secure document management and investor relations web portal designed expressly for the firm’s hedge fund clients. AIS Fund Administration provides outsourced middle and back office support and fund administration to the
Brookfield Asset Management has appointed Leo van den Thillart to the position of managing partner, private institutional equity, effective 1 June 2009.
Koger, a global financial services technology company, has launched an open-source client portal for financial institutions, asset managers, and fund administrators that works in tandem with the systems they already have in place. “With our technology, financial firms don’t have
Malbec Partners, an institutional alternative asset management platform, has appointed Costas Hamakiotes to its emerging markets team as senior trader.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has recorded the first trade in the new liquid milk future. The exchange transaction covered a volume of 25,000 kilograms traded at the price of EUR 36.50/100 kg for the October 2018 expiry. The liquid milk
Two Hong Kong-based asset management firms, whose accounts were frozen in a major insider trading case by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), have agreed to pay nearly USD11m to settle the charges against them. The SEC obtained an emergency
The Palm Beach Hedge Fund Association (PBHFA) has formed a strategic partnership with international real estate firm Engel & Volkers/Arthur J Martens. The team at Arthur J Martens has a long history of serving the real estate needs of Palm
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged two San Francisco-based investment adviser firms along with their former chief executive, former general counsel, and former portfolio manager with defrauding investors in a USD100m hedge fund that invested in sub-prime automobile loans.
