MJ Hudson, an asset management consultancy, has acquired Spring Associates Responsible Investment Service, an ESG (environmental, social and governance) consultancy and reporting business, based in Amsterdam. This acquisition follows MJ Hudson’s establishment, in January, of a legal practice in Milan,
Man Group has reported what it describes as strong performance for the first quarter of 2017 with funds under management (FUM) totalling USD88.7 billion at 31 March 2017, up from USD80.9 billion at the end of December 2016. Net inflows
Conway Investment Research has acquired operational control of the Guggenheim Alternatives Platform from GP Feeder Fund Management. The platform, which provides qualified investors access to global alternative investment solutions, is now known as the Conway Alternatives Platform. Conway is
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative asset funds, added 25 new clients in the first quarter of 2017, including a large institutional investor with multiple offices in the US, UK and Asia. During the quarter,
Hedge fund managers have become more upbeat about the Brexit result in the intervening five months, according to a new report published by Preqin. Preqin surveyed 276 hedge fund managers and 108 investors in November 2016 to see how their views
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has published the calendar for the auctioning of EU emission allowances (EUA) for 2018 in coordination with the European Commission and the participating member states as well as with the competent German authorities. EEX will
Cryptocurrency hedge fund fund Protos is now available for trading to verified non-US investors and accredited US investors on the Openfinance Alternative Trading System (ATS), a US regulated platform for the secondary market trading of digital alternative assets. The Protos
Recovery continues in hedge funds according to Eurekahedge which found that hedge funds were up 0.48 per cent during the month of November, with 2016 year-to-date returns coming in at 3.60 per cent. Meanwhile, underlying markets as represented by the
Mediobanca is to acquire a 69 per cent interest in RAM Active Investments (RAM AI), a Switzerland-based systematic investment manager. RAM AI offers a range of actively managed and alternative systematic fundamental equity and tactical fixed-income funds to a wide
More than seven in 10 (73 per cent) institutional investors believe Brexit will be “hard”, including 29 per cent who believe it will be “very hard”, research by asset management group Managing Partners Group (MPG) reveals. More than four out
