Following industry debates that the leveraged buyout market has all but dried up, Preqin examines whether or not buyouts and, in particular, public-to private transactions are still attractive to the investment community. In recent years, trillions of dollars have been
Clients of wealth manager and trust company San Antonio Capital Management can now invest in customised portfolios of top-tier hedge funds through an alliance with Crystal Capital Partners and Deer Isle Capital. Crystal Capital offers wealth managers the ability to
Jeff Sica has launched Circle Squared Alternative Investments, a firm dedicated to providing financial advisors with access to alternative investments previously available only to institutions and ultra-high net-worth investors. Sica’s approach to simplifying alternative market investing – investments that “touch
Kate Storey (pictured) from Appleby assesses how insurance linked securities are a growing alternative asset classes for investors, including investment funds… Insurance linked securities (ILS) are growing as an alternative asset class for a diverse group of capital markets investors, including
Running a successful hedge fund trading strategy requires high levels of skill, research, idea generation and a clear understanding of market dynamics. Such perspicacity, however, is becoming just as important in how a fund’s operations run. Regardless of how complex
BlackRock has launched the BlackRock Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund, offering individual investors the opportunity to access multiple alternative investment strategies in a single open-end mutual fund. The investment objective of the fund is to seek total return. The fund
Buttonwood Group Advisors is to list on the FNEX online alternative investment platform via its placement agent, affiliated broker-dealer Joseph Gunnar & Co. FNEX.com provides accredited investors, investment advisors, family offices and institutions access to private investment opportunities offered by
Carey Group has become the first listing agent in the world not based in the Cayman Islands to become a Cayman Islands Stock Exchange (CSX) listing agent. Being based in the same time zone as London gives the Carey Group
Alternative UCITS funds absolute were slightly down in July with the UAI Global index losing 0.33 per cent according to Alix Capital, the index provider. Commodity and equity focused funds were the hardest hit because of challenging conditions in their
Dean Newman (pictured), Head of Emerging Markets Equities at Invesco Perpetual, comments on a perceptible shift in economic power due to emerging markets’ growing share in global GDP… Since the Bretton Woods agreement in 1944, the world’s economic order has
