Credit Suisse’s asset management division has reached an agreement with Kimco International to become Kimco’s exclusive distributor. Kimco is a Singapore-based hedge fund manager that employs a Japanese equity long/short investment strategy. This arrangement further solidifies the collaboration between Credit
BCS Prime Brokerage, an independent financial institution, has appointed John Barker and Edward Golosov to its board. Barker (pictured) and Golosov join existing executive directors Rizwan Kayani and Vitaliy Shelikhovskiy. Barker joins as a non-executive director bringing
Quantifi Inc, a provider of analytics and risk management solutions for the global credit markets, has released Toolkit version 7.1.
Alternative investment firm SkyBridge Capital has appointed Peter Carey as a managing director to lead SkyBridge Direct, the firm’s hedge fund solutions business for institutional investors. Prior to joining SkyBridge, Carey led the restructuring of the New York Common Retirement
Insurance company Ageas has received full support from the Commercial Court of Brussels in summary proceedings against certain hedge fund owners of mandatory convertible securities. The latter requested that a meeting of MCS holders be convened in order to approve
The International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a consultation paper on Principles for Financial Benchmarks, which seeks public comments on a set of high-level principles for benchmarks used in global financial markets. Because of the wide diversity
The recommendations on hedge fund oversight of the G20 leaders meeting in Washington at the weekend, such as they were, were probably music to the ears of many fund managers.
GlobeOp Financial Services (GlobeOp) is to offer Communicator Inc’s Trade Date Tie-Out Service via it’s electronic trading connectivity
Appleby, a provider of offshore legal, fiduciary and administration services, has made two senior additions to its funds and investment services team in Guernsey. Appleby’s global head of funds, Ian Gobin (pictured), will transfer from the Cayman office to
Managed futures posted a gain of 3.48 per cent in October, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by Fairfield, Iowa-based index provider BarclayHedge, taking the index’s cumulative a
