Hedge funds looking to launch in Europe should be selective in their infrastructure investment, identify credible target client groups and understand the importance of concise marketing material which clearly outlines their unique selling point. Cowen’s London-based prime brokerage and cap intro
A Leg To Stand On (ALTSO) is gearing up for its inaugural Rocktoberfest charity concert in London on 6 June 2018. Doors will open at 6:30pm for a night of live music as bands drawn from the hedge fund and
By A Paris – The European hedge fund industry ended the year with USD486 billion in assets under management. The largest portion of these funds were domiciled in the Cayman Islands. Luxembourg was the next most prevalent jurisdiction, which highlights one of
Asia Pacific Exchange (APEX), a new derivatives exchange and clearinghouse, based in Singapore, has gone live with core functions operating on technology from the Cinnober Group. APEX’s independent clearinghouse, Asia Pacific Clear Pte Ltd, runs on Cinnober’s TRADExpress RealTime Clearing,
By Mike Cumming Bruce, Senior Associate, and Andrew Flynn, Associate, both at law firm Cooke, Young and Keidan – Imagine that you are the boss of a hedge fund that has outsourced all of its core analytical functions to a
Hedge fund investors held their ground in March 2018, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator, even as the equity market correction entered its second month. Industry assets climbed to an all-time high of USD3.0 trillion. Data drawn from more
Extreme market movements, in all directions, are driving market participants to use high speed strategies to keep pace. Demand for Avelacom’s low latency network has seen unprecedented growth, with a 35 per cent increase in volume of data transferred between
AGF Management, with USD37 billion under management, has completed its acquisition of 100 per cent of FFCM, to further strengthen their quantitative investing and ETF platform brought to market under the AGFiQ banner. “Today, we further build on our
H2O Asset Management, Bruno Crastes’ discretionary macro hedge fund firm, has written to investors to offer its “sincere apologies” for “significant” risk-adjusted losses this past week. “If 2008 was a liquidity crisis, 2011, a volatility crisis, and 2016, a convexity
Driehaus Capital Management has appointed Lee Diamandakis as Senior Vice President of Institutional Sales to oversee the Central region. He is joined by David McElroy as Senior Vice President of Institutional Sales to oversee the Southeast region. Diamandakis brings over
