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Alfi Rogge Partners – a new joint venture between Rogge Global Partners and Alfi Partners – has established offices for marketing and client service in both Paris and Geneva in order to develop and service its business in French-speaking Europe and capitalise on the growing demand in the region for global fixed income.
Alfi Rogge Partners is aimed at providing investors in France, Monaco, Belgium, Luxembourg and French-speaking Switzerland with local access to Rogge’s four core areas of expertise: Developed Markets, Investment Grade Credit, Global High Yield and Emerging Markets (Debt and Currency). In addition, Rogge has recently grown its
Eurofin Capital, the Lausanne and London based privately owned investment company has acquired NAU Capital, a multi-strategy hedge fund based in London.
The Board of Eurofin Capital Ltd the London based FSA Authorised asset management company is pleased to announce that approximately EUR90 million of assets under management will be transferred to Eurofin Capital.
NAU Capital manages two separate funds, The NAU Fund and the Plurima Nau Fund and these two strategies compliment the fund of fund and single strategy funds already managed by Eurofin Capital.
The 8 man team at NAU Capital have joined Eurofin Capital and
Sal Naro, former co-managing partner of Sailfish Capital, a USD4.4 billion asset management firm with approximately USD2 billion in hedge fund assets, is launching Coherence Capital Partners LLC (Coherence Capital).
Naro was most recently a shareholder in and Vice Chairman of Jefferson National Financial Corp. and Chief Executive Officer of Jefferson National Asset Management. The creation of Coherence Capital Partners LLC is the result of a management buyout of Jefferson National’s core insurance unit. He will now be Chief Executive Officer of Coherence Capital Partners LLC, which will be a registered investment adviser.
Coherence Capital will manage traditional and
SEI has been selected by Asset Value Investors (AVI) to provide full fund administration and trustee and custodial services for the investment manager’s new Irish Qualified Investment Funds (QIFs).
AVI, a London-based global manager, launched the QIFs to offer its investors a regulated product while still being able to maintain the flexibility of its investment strategies.
Among the key reasons AVI selected SEI was the company’s Manager Dashboard technology, which provides both aggregated and detailed views of data across multiple product lines via a secure website. The Manager Dashboard also provides AVI with analytical tools to enhance its
SVM Asset Management, the Edinburgh based investment boutique, has launched a strategic partnership with Level E Capital, an Edinburgh based hedge fund.
SVM Asset Management has made a significant level of investment in the Maya Market Neutral fund, a long short absolute return fund, through the SVM Global fund.
The Maya Market Neutral fund, which launched in early January, is a systematic, long short equity fund investing in large cap UK and US equities. The fund has a liquid, diversified portfolio of 400 positions, an average gross exposure of 200% and a target return of 15%, with a market correlation
EFAMA this week was broadly in agreement with proposals setting out future guidelines on UCITS ETFs and other UCITS issues detailed by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in
Punter Southall Group has taken 100 per cent ownership of fund management boutique PSigma Asset Management.
PSigma Asset Management was formed in February 2007 as a joint venture – 50% owned by the founder partners and 50% by the Punter Southall Group. Since then, assets under management have grown to around GBP750m.
Both leadership teams emphasised that it will be “business as usual” with no changes to key investment teams and managers. The PSigma funds and institutional mandates will continue to be managed in the same way.
As a result of this transaction, Bill Mott and Ian