Stephens International, an executive search consultancy focused on the global (re)insurance and financial markets, has appointed Jeremy Kemp as a director. Kemp will lead the company’s coverage of the asset management, capital markets, derivatives and insurance-linked securities/alternatives space. Mark
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has strengthened its business restructuring offering in the Midlands with the appointment of a new partner. Ryan Grant joins the firm’s Birmingham office today, bringing more than 18 years’ experience in business restructuring having
Link Fund Solutions (Luxembourg) has been granted a license to act as UCITS Management Company and Authorised Alternative Investment Fund Manager by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF). Part of Link Asset Services, the Link Fund Solutions third-party
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) increased volumes on its power derivatives markets by 52 per cent to 271.3 TWh in August (August 2017: 178.9 TWh). In the Phelix products for Germany, Austria and Germany/Austria, volumes increased by 44 per cent
The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced that Michael Lauer, the head of two Connecticut-based hedge fund advisors, has been ordered to pay more than USD62m within 15 days a
Active asset manager J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) has appointed Aled Smith as Investment Director. Smith will provide investment oversight to JOHCM’s 16 investment teams, based in London, Boston, New York and Singapore, as well as search for market-leading
The investable Headstart Fund of Funds, advised by Headstart Advisers, has claimed its place at the top of the leader board of the Investhedge rankings for multi-strategy funds of hedge funds over the last three, six and 12 months. The
Having settled earlier this year on the UCITS framework as the regulatory template for its new fund regime, New Zealand has moved a step closer to receiving governmen
London-based Dalton Strategic Partnership has had a good year for the latest newcits in its stable of eleven other funds under the firm’s Melchior Selected Trust Lux-domicile
Alpha Ucits, a London-based independent UCITS distribution platform established by ex-Brevan Howard’s Stephane Diederich in October 2009, has won its first UCITS structuring man
