Cayman-based Rainmaker Partners Limited is to begin providing investment management services.

Reduced inflationary pressures, maturing commodities markets and a strengthening Japan will be the key investment themes for 2006. That’s the view of Merrill Lynch

London-based NewSmith Asset Management is further broadening its capabilities with the appointment of a Hong Kong-based Asian equities team. NewSmith Asset Manageme

Fairfield Straits Lion Asset Management (FSL) has unveiled its latest fund, the Fairfield Korean Equity Fund, the company’s fifth launch since August 2005.  The fu

RMF, the core investment manager of Man Investments, has made a significant investment in a US equity long short fund managed by AM Investment Partners. The AM Inv

For longer than most investors and hedge fund managers care to remember, the chief attraction of Latin America has been the kind of political and economic turbulence and market volatility that prov

SGAM Alternative Investments is on target to reach USD 7 billion in hedge fund assets under management this year, an increase of 70 per cent. Arié Assayag, Global H

HSBC France has sold its issuer services business to CACEIS, enabling the latter to strengthen its market position in France.

Hedge fund assets managed out of London grew 18% in 2005 to USD 225 billion making the city one o

F&C Alternative Investments has closed its F&C Amethyst Fund, which was launched in January 2003, to new investors.