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Guernsey makes no excuses for wanting to attract fund managers to the island and evolve into more than simply an alternative funds jurisdiction. It is, according to Andrew Carey (pictured), Head of Locate Guernsey, an explicit position as opposed to a ‘nice to have’ position.
“We are working closely with the Guernsey Investment Funds Association to increase the number of fund managers on the island. The size of the manager community is already quite significant, it’s one of the best performing financial sectors, but there’s always room for more managers and for those that choose to come here, they will find
Jersey has a population of around 100,000 people, of whom approximately 12,000 work in the finance industry. This is an island jurisdiction with financial fund services at the heart of its economy. As such, it is able to draw upon a deep pool of talent, including graduates from UK universities as well as resident professionals with years of experience.
“We have a good talent pool here and a very buoyant financial funds industry. Talent isn’t an issue. That said, if you can’t find specific talent you are allowed to bring someone to the island. If it’s a specific role you
By Ivan Grech (pictured), FinanceMalta – Malta is, in many ways, an attractive place to do business. This applies to business in general of course, but is particularly the case for financial businesses. This includes funds, be they retail collective investment schemes, alternative investment funds or any of a wide variety of hedge funds falling under the wide umbrella of a “professional investor fund” or PIF.
There are myriad reasons for this attractiveness, starting from the regulatory and legal environment within which financial businesses and funds operate in Malta. While clearly important, these are dealt with at length in many other places,
The Global Fund Media Guide to Relocation 2018 is the seventh edition of this unique online publication being made available to the 40,000-strong audience of investment managers, institutional investors and fund service providers that read GFM’s family of investment management newswires daily.
The focus of the Guide is to help managers, promoters and their advisers decide where best to locate their investment funds – and themselves – and complements the daily news, special reports and fund data delivered through our specialised investment management portals (see below for complete list).
This edition of the Guide draws together in one volume the
LMAX Exchange Group (LMAX Exchange), an institutional exchange for global FX trading, has appointed FX veteran Roland White to the newly created position of Global Head of Institutional Sales, reporting to David Mercer, CEO of LMAX Exchange.
Roland White (pictured), joins LMAX Exchange on 30 July 2018 from Commerzbank, where he was Head of Electronic Foreign Exchange Sales in London for eight years.
White brings 28 years of institutional FX expertise and a wealth of experience from a career spent at FX brokers, and bank sales and trading desks. White has grown and managed international sales teams for EBS,
European Fund Administration (EFA) has appointed Cédric Jauquet as Head of Private Asset Services and member of the company’s Executive Committee.
Jauquet (pictured), joins from Credit Suisse Fund Services Luxembourg, where he was Head of Private Equity and Real Estate Administration. Cédric has 18 years’ experience in private asset services in Luxembourg at Credit Suisse, Banque Internationale à Luxembourg’s corporate and fund services subsidiary, RBC Alternative Investor Services and PwC.
EFA further strengthens its existing team of experts by appointing Fabrice Freilinger, Head of Private Asset Investor Services, and Tomasz Szubartowski, Head of Private Asset Accounting Services. Both also
The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has appointed Stuart Fiertz, Co-Founder and President of Cheyne Capital Management, and Richard Lightburn, Chief Executive Officer of MKP Capital Management, to its Board.
The SBAI is the global standard-setting body for the alternative investment industry and custodian of the Alternative Investment Standards. The SBAI and the Standards are supported by approximately 200 alternative investment managers and institutional investors who collectively manage USD3.5 trillion.
Dame Amelia Fawcett, Chairman of the SBAI, says: “Stuart and Richard, as prominent leaders in alternative investment management, will bring invaluable insights to our board as the SBAI
Paradigm Governance Partners Limited, which offers independent director services, distressed fund and value recovery services and outsourced accounting services, has hired an experienced fund professional as Manager – Fund Services to assist the business in its rapid growth.
Laura McGeever joins Paradigm after five years with Citco Trustees (Cayman) Limited. Most recently, she had been responsible for the management and oversight of the firm’s Hedge Fund Secretarial group.
Prior to arriving in the Cayman Islands, she worked with the law firm Matheson and prior to that JPMorgan Fund Services (Ireland) Limited.
Paradigm was formed earlier this year in
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for June 2018 measured 4.17 per cent, up from 3.47 per cent in May.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for June 2018 was 4.17 per cent, an increase from the 3.59 per cent reported for the same period a year ago for June 2017,” says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “Recent months’ redemptions are running somewhat higher than the very low levels seen in 2017, but remain in line with historical averages.”
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator represents the sum of forward redemption notices received from investors in hedge funds
Apis Capital Management has launched the Apis Token which is designed to enable investors to profit from an actively managed investment strategy, which it says has returned over 70 per cent per year since inception, while benefiting from the liquid and tradeable nature of blockchain-based tokens.
The token will begin its private presale this June, is built using the Steller network and leverages its state of the art blockchain technology that benefits from best in class speed, efficiency, security and lowest transaction fees.
Dr Edgar Radjabli (pictured), Managing Partner of Apis Capital Management, says: “One major advantage is that
