Leucadia National Corporation (NYSE: LUK) and Jefferies Group have approved a definitive merger agreement under which Jefferies’ shareholders (other than Leucadia, which currently owns approximately 28.6% of the Jefferies outstanding shares) will receive 0.81 of a share of Leucadia common
RiverCrest Capital, the absolute return fund management business established by Sir John Beckwith’s (pictured) Pacific Investments in 2011, has rolled out its second offering with the launch of the European Equity Alpha Fund. The Fund’s objective is to achieve consistent
US Bancorp Fund Services, a subsidiary of US Bancorp (NYSE:USB), has agreed to acquire AIS Fund Administration (AIS), a provider of fund administration and related services to alternative investment managers. The transaction adds approximately USD25 billion in hedge fund
One-year-old startup the Diamond Standard Co has launched the world’s first fungible diamond commodity product – a universal asset to secure any digital transaction. “Diamonds are a valuable natural resource, but unusable by institutional investors. Unlike gold and platinum, each
eVestment, a provider of institutional investment data and cloud-based analytic solutions, has acquired PerTrac, a provider of hedge fund analysis software and workflow solutions, and Fundspire, a cloud-based technology provider of hedge fund analytics. Terms of the deals have not
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, registered a total volume of 207.1 TWh in April 2019 (April 2018: 146.4 TWh). The spot segment reported a total volume of 125.5 TWh which represented a 60 per cent increase
Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) is to acquire an equity interest in Garda Capital Partners. After the closing of the transaction, the senior partners of Garda will continue to hold a majority of the equity of the business and direct the
Man Group has entered into a series of transactions with Hutchinson Investors, managed by the Baupost Group, to sell the residual exposure to the Lehman estates that it acquired in July 2011 from certain GLG managed funds. The total consideration
The automotive sector is revving up interest with fund managers such as Paris-based Charles-Henri Neme, whose EUR400million Exane Funds 1 – Ceres A fund is targeting automotive stocks to increase cyclical exposure and piggyback on emerging market growth trends reported
IFG Trust and Corporate Group has acquired Jersey-based Moore Group. This is the first acquisition since the group’s MBO in July this year when it separated from IFG Group Plc. Growth is one of the group’s main objectives and the
