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Chicago-based commodity hedge fund Aventis Asset Management, has hired Keith Byers (pictured) as Managing Director Business Development.
Effective 1 September, 2015, Byers is responsible for the strategic planning and implementation of all Business Development efforts for Aventis.
Byers brings twenty years of sales, marketing and client servicing experience in the Managed Futures Industry to his role at Aventis. Prior to joining Aventis, Byers was a Managing Director at Trigon Investment Advisors and Chesapeake Capital Corporation.
“We are excited to add Keith to our team as he brings a wealth of industry knowledge and experience which will help us
- 02/10/2015
Lazard Asset Management (LAM) has launched the Lazard European Alternative Fund, which is UCITS compliant, utilises bottom up stock selection and is a liquid portfolio of approximately 60 long and short positions in European large- and mid-cap companies.
The Fund will be managed out of London by Leopold Arminjon (pictured). He will be supported by Portfolio Manager/Analyst, Nitin Arora, who recently joined from HSBC, where for the past five years he was a lead equity research analyst covering asset managers, specialist lenders and international dealer brokers as well as European investment banks.
Arminjon, who began working in the investment
- 01/10/2015
- 01/10/2015
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), has marked its 25th anniversary with a series of events including a charity dinner for member firms that raised over GBP125,000 for the NSPCC, the children’s charity.
Close to 300 guests attended the AIMA 25th Anniversary Charity Dinner at the Guildhall in London. The funds raised will enable the NSPCC to reach 25,000 more children through its pioneering Schools Service, delivered by trained volunteers who go into primary schools across the UK to talk to children about abuse and how to stay safe.
The Charity Dinner, which featured keynote speeches by Emmanuel “Manny”
- 01/10/2015
Wells Fargo’s Global Fund Services has launched Fund View, an operational system for managing and analysing the middle- and back-office operations, fund accounting, and regulatory and investor servicing functions of hedge funds and private equity funds.
"Fund View provides managers with operational information on a real-time basis enabling them to better manage and analyse post-trade activities,” says Christopher Kundro (pictured), head of Global Fund Services. “It will provide our customers with the critical information they need for monitoring and measuring operational activities, analysing and mitigating operational risk, and ultimately ensuring that their funds are operating efficiently and effectively.”
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- 01/10/2015
Moscow Exchange securities broker BCS Financial Group has made its first move into the North American market with the acquisition of Alforma Capital Markets, the wholly-owned New York-based subsidiary of Alfa-Bank.
BCS’ holding company and AO Alfa-Bank have signed an agreement where BCS will acquire 100% shares in the US broker/dealer upon receipt of US regulatory approvals. The company is due to be rebranded as BCS Americas Inc., and current CEO, David Denson will continue in his position. The business will continue to provide brokerage and investment services to US-based institutional clients seeking to access Russian markets.
Both parties
- 01/10/2015
- 01/10/2015
AIP Private Capital (AIPPC) and AIP Asset Management (AIPAM), as security agent on behalf of certain of its funds, accounts and partners, are to acquires USD5 million in secured convertible notes and secured non-convertible from Capital Guardian Holding.
Each Holder has the right to convert at any time the convertible notes held by it into voting membership interests of Capital Guardian.
Capital Guardian is a specialist in the Independent Securities Brokerage business and is a diversified hybrid Broker-Dealer, RIA, and Wealth Management firm with corporate offices in New York, Palm Beach, Miami, Naples, and Charlotte. Capital Guardian has approximately
- 01/10/2015
The Boston Company Asset Management LLC. (TBC), a subsidiary of Bank of New York Mellon Investment Management, has selected Portware Enterprise to support its global equities and FX trading.
Through an integration with Portware’s Alpha Vision, TBC can monitor real-time market conditions to maximise execution performance, increase trading efficiency through cutting edge visualisations and better manage broker commissions.
Portware was selected as The Boston Company’s multi-asset trading solution after a competitive evaluation for its industry-leading trade analytics, advanced transaction cost analysis (TCA) and adaptability to address TBC’s complex and unique workflows. TBC specialises in traditional and alternative strategies that
- 01/10/2015
Eurex Exchange, the international derivatives market of Deutsche Börse Group, is to launch a new equity index contract on 28 October 2015. The Mini DAX Futures will be offered in addition to the existing DAX Futures (FDAX) with a significantly lower contract value, at only a fifth of the DAX Futures.
“The new Mini DAX Futures contract addresses together with the existing DAX Futures the needs of our users for more precise fine-tuning of their hedging positions,” says Mehtap Dinc (pictured), member of the Eurex Executive Board. “At the same time, it is also aimed at semi-professional investors who are
- 01/10/2015
The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) has published Frequently Asked Questions to provide general guidance to Luxembourg investment funds and their management companies wishing to apply for an RQFII Licence and an RQFII Quota.
The publication of these FAQs follows the announcement by the People’s Bank of China on 29 April 2015 granting a RMB50 billion Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (RQFII) quota to Luxembourg. The RQFII scheme was launched in Hong Kong in 2011 and has been expanded to other jurisdictions since 2013, allowing an increased volume of offshore RMB to be reinvested into the Mainland securities markets.
- 01/10/2015
- 01/10/2015
Finisterre Capital, an Emerging Market Macro and Credit specialist, is to launch Finisterre Emerging Market Debt Total Return Strategy with Damien Buchet (pictured), previously Global Head of Emerging Market Fixed Income at AXA Investment Managers, joining the firm as CIO for Total Return Strategies.
Buchet is joined by Christopher Watson, who has been at Finisterre since 2007 as Head of Credit Research and a Credit Portfolio Manager and today runs the firm’s USD720m in long-biased strategies. Buchet’s top-down approach will complement Watson’s fundamental, research driven style.
The strategy will benefit from being operated within an unconstrained and entrepreneurial
- 01/10/2015
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