The Board of Directors of ALTIN AG has set the strike price of the put options to be issued as part of its share buyback programme at USD64. The strike price is set at a 13.6% premium above the closing
Euronext has signed a tripartite agreement with grain storage specialist Sénalia and LCH.Clearnet SA. Euronext’s relationship with storage silos operated by Socomac and Sica Nord-Céréales will be harmonised under the agreement. With 750,000 tonnes of milling wheat storage capacity
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for February 2015 measured 3.64%, up from 2.49% in January. “Redemption requests increased for the month of February, but remain consistent with historical averages,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies.
“This is not another AIFMD regulation. It is much simpler, much cheaper and fairly easy to implement,” states Roman Pelka (pictured), founder of Montfort Funds, a specialist provider of Swiss fund representation services, when discussing the need to appoint a
Investors are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that global markets will, at some point, move towards a higher interest rate environment. This will happen at varying speeds depending on the region, with the US and the UK most likely
Liquid alternatives are one of the fastest growing areas of the asset management industry. In Europe, assets grew from EUR36bn to EUR236bn between 2008 and 2014, according to a Deutsche Bank report released last September (entitled From Alternatives to Mainstream
Quantmetrics Capital Management is to join Lyxor Asset Management’s AIFM managed account platform enabling Lyxor to launch its first AIFMD-compliant strategy on the platform. Quantmetrics’ investment strategy will be a short-term CTA program invested in all asset classes that seeks
Overall, last year was a positive year for hedge funds in the sense that assets continued to grow, to the point where the industry reached USD2.8trn in total AuM. However, from a performance perspective it certainly wasn’t an easy one.
Fifth Street Asset Management has closed the Fifth Street Senior Loan Fund I (FS SLF I), a USD309.5 million collateralised loan obligation (CLO). FS SLF I represents FSAM's initial CLO under management and its pricing was the first for a
Interview with Steven Bulko, CIO, 1798 Fundamental Strategies, Lombard Odier Investment Managers… Equity markets are close to or at their historic highs. How do you see the big picture for equity investors? While developed economies have been recovering since the
