Andrew Turner and Imran Sami have joined the London office of law firm Katten Muchin Rosenman Cornish as partners, strengthening the firm’s expertise in areas including corporate transacti
Silver Creek Capital Management, a manager of funds of hedge funds, has added four investment and business development professionals to its teams in the UK and US. The four are Carter Weil, Petter von Heidenstam, Christian McFadden and Kelsey Schreck.
Local regulations have until 2003 been a major constraint to launch hedge funds in Germany, and have prevented German investors from directly investing in non-German funds.<
Companies are increasingly incorporating corporate event data into their trading strategies in order to mitigate monetary losses and react more quickly to market volatility, according to Wall Street Horizon’s latest Corporate Event Research Survey. The survey, which polled more than
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged Georgia-based Joseph L. Autry, Jr. and his company, Autry Capital Management, with fraudulently operating a Ponzi scheme that solicited and received approximately USD265,200 from seven customers to trade commodity futures contracts. Autry,
The restrictions imposed on short selling of financial stocks by regulators of markets throughout the world are not having a significant impact on managers of absolute return and 130/30 eq
One good way of annoying fund salesmen, those from publicly-listed investment groups like Investec, Man Group or Singer & Friedlander, is to enquire whether
Genscape, a provider of energy information for commodity and financial markets, has launched plans for a new combined heat and power (CHP) service for the German power market. The German power market is a critical hub that has a significant
Three reasons come to mind if asked why a risk management and monitoring framework should be put in place: satisfying external risk reporting needs; ensuring that possible losses/t
A new fund structure for Jersey has been devised by Jersey-based law firm Crill Canavan and fund administrator Herald Fund Services. The Standard Form Expert Fund, the first fund of which has been approved by the Jersey Financial Services Commission,
