The era of the baby boomer – a loosely defined term, but usually understood to encompass those born during the post-World War II baby boom between 1946 and the early 1960s – is coming to a
New York-based investment firm Wilshire Phoenix has partnered with crypto storage solution Coinbase Custody to launch a new institutional fund by the end of 2018. The fund, which will be organised as a statutory trust and which capped at USD500
MJ Hudson and MW Cornish & Co have merged their respective private equity and hedge funds practices with immediate effect. The merged firm, known as MJ Hudson, will be committed to providing a specialist legal service to the global alternative
Neuberger Berman has broadened its alternative investment platform with the acquisition of specialist asset manager Cartesian Re, which, with its affiliate Iris Re, manages more than USD1 billion in assets under management (AUM) focussing on the insurance-linked strategies (ILS) asset
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) will conduct a secondary market auction for European emission allowances (EUAs) on behalf of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of Latvia. The auction is scheduled for 16 November 2018 with the bidding
Trium Capital, the London-based independent specialist alternative asset manager, is partnering with Ellington Global Asset Management to launch The Ellington Trium Alternative Credit UCITS, a long/short credit UCITS fund. The fund is set to be launched this quarter and will
The latest research report by Singapore-based firm, Eurekahedge, reveals that last month European hedge funds recorded th
Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors has completed the conversion of the Highland Global Allocation Fund, a series of Highland Funds II, from an open-end fund to a closed-end fund. The conversion was approved by shareholders during the 8 November, 2018
Frankfurt-based Universal Investments have teamed up with US hedge fund, York Asset Management, to roll out a first-in-class global merger arbitrage newcits: the York Lion Merger A
GAM’s systematic alternative risk premia strategy has won an AUD275 million investment from an Australian superannuation pension fund. GAM’s alternative risk premia strategy typically targets around 15 risk premia strategies across the style categories of value, momentum and carry. The
