Backstop Solutions is to integrate its innovative investment partnership management software with HedgeOp’s web-based compliance platform. The alliance plans to ena
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has launched the Morgan Stanley Commodities Alpha Fund, an actively managed mutual fund that offers US high net worth investors the opportunity to gain
Florian Wilhelm Jürgen Homm, a German hedge fund manager who was on the run for more than five years, has been arrested in Italy on US federal fraud charges that accuse him of orchestrating a market manipulation scheme designed to
Hedge funds returned an average of +0.59 per cent in July, and are +0.79 per cent through the first seven months of 2018, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Industry Performance Report. Pockets of good performance though, are still being
Refinitiv, a provider of financial markets data and infrastructure, has appointed Andrea Remyn Stone as Chief Customer Proposition Officer and member of the Executive Leadership team. Remyn Stone will report to the CEO of Refinitiv, David Craig.
A study of 100 hedge fund failures over the past 20 years shows that an alarmingly high number (50 per cent) of hedge funds fail due to operational risk alone.
Last year Deloitte & Touche was commissioned by Ireland’s Industrial Development Agency to examine future opportunities for the country’s international financial services sector.
Swiss fund of funds firm, Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, this week signed a strategic partnership agreement with Korea’s Daewoo Securities.
Fund administrator Apex Group (Apex) and Genstar Capital have jointly acquired Custom House, a global hedge fund administrator delivering services to alternative investment managers across Europe, Asia and the Americas. The acquisition adds a further USD24 billion in assets under
NYSE Euronext says global derivatives average daily volume reached 7.7 million contracts traded per day in September 2010, up 4.8 per cent versus the prior year and 22.5 per cent from August 2010. The increase in global derivatives ADV versus
