Tax specialist William Jean-Baptiste has joined Ogier’s team in Luxembourg as a tax partner. Jean-Baptiste (pictured), who joins Ogier’s eight-strong partnership in Luxembourg, focuses on tax structuring of international investment transactions, investment funds and on-going tax management. His experience
Managed futures stumbled out of the gate to start 2019, with the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, down 0.43 per cent for the month. All but two of the Barclay Managed Futures indices were in negative territory for January,
Leading interdealer broker Icap has launched the first combined voice and electronic broking service for OTC products based on the leading daily dry bulk shipping indicator, the Baltic Exc
IDFC Asset Management Company (AMC) has launched the IDFC India Equity Hedge – Tactical Fund, an AIF Category III offering, which will follow a Tactical Long/Short Equity strategy. The fund will have significantly higher net exposures, typically ranging between -40
Liontrust, the specialist fund management group, has expanded its Sustainable Advisory Committee through the appointment of Valborg Lie. Lie has extensive experience and knowledge of Sustainable Investment, including through her previous role as Head of Responsible Investment (RI) with the
Vistra Fund Services has launched Vistra Fund Services Asia Limited, to complement the group’s fund administration operations in Jersey and Luxembourg. The new operation, which is based in Hong Kong, will provide fund administration and associated services to fund managers
Singapore-based Straits Financial Group has expanded its existing relationship with trade surveillance and market risk platform provider Eventus Systems by signing on to the Validus trade surveillance and risk management platform for its Singapore headquarters. Straits Financial Group is the
KPMG and Carey Olsen have advised Dexion Capital (Guernsey) on the launch of DCG IRIS, a new Guernsey-domiciled, closed-ended investment fund. It has raised in excess of GBP40m by way of an initial public offering on the main market of
Lucena Research, a specialist in predictive analytics for financial markets, and Wall Street Horizon, a provider of corporate earnings and events data to institutional investors, are bringing to market new combined offerings in the form of actionable signals for investment.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a complaint against Peregrine Financial Group Inc (PFG), a registered futures commission merchant, and its owner, Russell R Wasendorf, Sr (pictured). The Complaint alleges that PFG and Wasendorf committed fraud by
