By Philip Young, partner, Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP For years people in the markets have been asking when the sovereign and corporate debt bubbles – fuelled by ultra-low interest rates and quantitative easing – would finally burst.
Drawbridge Partners, a cybersecurity software and services firm specialising in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers, has appointed Simon Eyre as Managing Director overseeing the European market.Eyre will lead Drawbridge’s engineering, product and customer engagement teams across
Regulatory compliance firm Optima Partners has appointed former Bain Capital chief compliance office Alan K Halfenger as a Partner at the firm. In his role at Optima, Halfenger (pictured) will focus on the regulatory and compliance needs of private equity
Following a marginal uptick in April, Societe Generale Prime Services’ SG CTA Index moved into negative territory in May, down 2.41 per cent for the month, despite being up mid-month. Trend followers were the main drivers of losses in the
Investors are divided over how their hedge fund allocations have performed during the recent market crash, a new industry survey has found. Investment consultancy bfinance polled 260 investors – including pension funds, insurers, foundations and endowments and family offices – in
Somerset Capital Management, the global emerging markets specialist manager, is building positions in Brazil and South Africa in a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity for EM stocks following the recent global market downturn.
Ogier has strengthened its funds practices in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg with three partner promotions. Funds specialists Justin Savage and Anne-Gaëlle Delabye have both been promoted to partner in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg respectively, while fund finance lawyer
The vast majority (88 per cent) of buy-side traders see see the shift to block trading in the dark as a positive outcome of MiFID II, according to a new report from Liquidnet on the ability of traders to source
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU securities regulator, has launched a public consultation on its draft guidance to address leverage risks in the Alternative Investment Fund (AIF) sector.
By Jude Scott, Cayman Finance – Governments around the world have taken dramatic action to address the health risks caused by Covid-19, but doing so has also created a wide range of significant economic risks as well. While health is the
