JMP Group’s hedge fund and investment arm Harvest Capital Strategies has raised USD245 million for the Harvest Intrexon Enterprise Fund, an investment vehicle dedicated to funding companies that utilise the inventions, discoveries and technologies of Intrexon Corporation, a specialist in synthetic
Hedgeweek Q&A with Mark Coriaty, Chief Strategy Officer, Eze Castle Integration HW: Talk about the advancement and evolution of cloud services in recent years and how we’ve ended up where we are. MC: If you step back and look at
European equities still present an attractive potential over the long term, but according to systematic analysis used by Quaero Capital’s Argos European Systematic Long Short Equity fund, the optimum market timing conditions to go net Long have not materialised. For
Rates of funds processing automation by transfer agents (TAs) in the cross-border fund centres of Luxembourg and Ireland reached new highs in 2016, according to a new report published by The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) in cooperation
The Archstone Partnerships, an alternative investment management firm focused exclusively on hedge fund investments, has extended its investment offerings for the first time to accredited investors through the Archstone Alternative Solutions Fund. Capitalizing on over 25 years of experience and
FundRock Management Company has appointed Enda Fahy (pictured), to head up the Illiquid Alternatives function at its Luxembourg Headquarters. FundRock, one of the largest independent UCITS and AIFM investment management companies in Europe, has recently opened its Irish branch and
Sapient Global Markets, a provider of business technology and consulting services for the capital and commodity markets, has launched of CMRS Portal, delivering the proven trade reporting capabilities of CMRS as a fully outsourced solution. For firms with a lower
S W Mitchell Capital, a London-based European equity specialist, has been appointed by Balter Liquid Alternatives to sub-advise a new '40 Act liquid alternatives fund. The Balter European L/S Small Cap Fund, which launched on 31 December, 2015, provides US
Since its first live deal in January 2017, the number of banks eligible to publish deals via Ipreo’s Investor Access has doubled from eleven to twenty two. Investor participation in this industry-led initiative continues to grow, with an active community
Calastone, the global funds transaction network, has successfully completion the first phase of its distributed market infrastructure proof-of-concept (PoC) to test the feasibility of using blockchain to develop a common global marketplace for the trading and settlement of mutual funds.
