Jersey is successfully leveraging its appeal as a leading alternative funds domicile to attract innovative technology and software businesses that support the European asset manager community. TORA, a technology and financial services company focusing on the investment management space, is
CME Group is to launch Ultra 10-Year US Treasury Note futures and options for early in the first quarter of 2016. The new contracts will be listed with, and subject to, the rules and regulations of the CBOT, pending certification of
All six of IndexIQ’s IQ Hedge investable hedge fund replication indexes recorded negative performance in September. The month’s biggest loser was the IQ Hedge Long/Short Index with a return of -2.10 per cent followed by the IQ Merger Arbitrage Index
Managed Funds Association (MFA) President and CEO Richard H Baker has released a statement regarding the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s comprehensive report on private fund reporting detailed in Form PF. Baker says: “MFA Members welcome the release of this data,
The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark returned -1.44 per cent in September, marking another difficult month for hedge funds as relative value funds were the only top-level strategy to see positive performance. This is the fourth consecutive month of negative returns for hedge
Data analytics and advisory company Convergence has launched its ‘Best Fit’ service for advisers allowing users to identify service providers who are most closely aligned with the operating complexity of their business model. Convergence has identified 31 unique operating complexity factors that will
The hedge fund industry produced an aggregate return of -1.20 per cent in September, dropping YTD returns further into negative territory for 2015, -2.35 per cent, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Performance Monthly Report. The industry’s last annual decline
Deutsche Börse has completed its acquisition of trading platform 360T, following the approval of relevant antitrust authorities and the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin). 360T remains under the regulatory supervision of BaFin and operates under the existing management team.
The private debt industry in Asia has already seen fundraising growth within the distressed debt and mezzanine segments in so far in 2015 compared to 2014. However, the industry in Asia is still far less established than in North America
The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GSFC) has signed MoUs with both the SFC and HKMA regarding consultation, cooperation and the exchange of information related to the supervision of AIFMD entities. CEO of the GFSC, Samantha Barrass, says: “Signing the AIFMD
