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Lansons has the become first UK communications consultancy to become a member of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).
Since its inception in 1989 Lansons has represented many hedge funds and alternative investment managers, while handling some of the largest corporate crises in the UK’s financial services sector. Becoming an AIMA member ensures that Lansons remains at the forefront of reputation management and stakeholder engagement at a time when the industry is facing ever-increasing scrutiny and regulatory challenges.
David Masters, board director and head of Lansons alternative and institutional practice, says: “Founded as a partnership and 100% owned by
- 12/05/2015
International law firm Greenberg Traurig has strengthened its expertise in private investment funds and complicated derivatives transactions, with the additions of Anthony L Perricone and Nanette Aguirre as shareholders in its New York Corporate & Securities Practice.
Aguirre joins from Schulte Roth & Zabel, where Perricone started his career and was more recently a partner at Jones Day.
“Rather than force clients to choose between top tier quality and value, we remain true to our core: a business model premised not on size but upon delivering elite quality and extraordinary value in one firm, where we intensely focus on execution
- 11/05/2015
Institutions managing investments with a long or perpetual time horizon are increasingly looking across asset classes, liquid and illiquid, to capture long term returns.
That’s according to the Endowment & Foundation (E&F) Group at JP Morgan Asset Management in London.
Kris Jonsson, Head of EMEA Endowments & Foundations, says: “A typical endowment needs to generate annual return greater than the sum of inflation and distributions, in order to preserve the portfolio value in real terms. With the current low yield environment, E&Fs are reviewing their strategic asset allocations and considering alternatives – which have historically both improved diversification and
- 11/05/2015
Exegy, a provider of high-performance market data normalisation and distribution solutions, has introduced six new feed handlers for foreign exchange venues.
The new additions expand Exegy's broad portfolio of over 200 market data feed handlers, including feed handlers for leading bank portals and ECN platforms for currency trading. Exegy is now supporting an additional six bank portals – Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Nomura, and Royal Bank of Scotland.
The additions to Exegy's portfolio of market data feed handlers were driven by expanded usage of its hardware-accelerated appliances for currency trading. Exegy continuously develops new
- 11/05/2015
Over 220 guests from Asia’s alternative investments industry attended Hedge Funds Care (Asia)/Help for Children Asia’s inaugural annual benefit gala on Monday, 4 May.
The benefit gala was held at the Exchange Auditorium at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) courtesy of HKEx. The night was aimed at raising both awareness and funds to support programs that can help treatment and prevention of child abuse across Asia.
“We are so appreciative of the support and generosity that Hedge Funds Care Asia has received from the hedge fund community at our inaugural benefit,” says Jean Sung, Chairman of Hedge Funds
- 11/05/2015
Hedge fund firm Crescent Capital Group has appointed Peter Mitchell has Senior Vice President (SVP) of Investor Relations. He will be responsible for marketing Crescent’s strategies to institutional investors including public pension plans and multi-employer pension plans.
Mitchell brings more than a decade of experience in the financial industry. He joins Crescent from Thornburg Investment Management where he was a Senior Portfolio Specialist. Prior to that, he filled senior roles in the financial industry including as Managing Director of Investor Relations at EnTrust Capital, Inc. and Director of Sales at Snow Capital Management. Prior to his financial career, Mr. Mitchell
- 11/05/2015
Hedge funds posted gains in April as regional equity and currency markets across China, Russia, Brazil and the Middle East posted sharp gains.
Volume surged on the Shanghai/Hong Kong Connect program to a daily record driving Chinese A-shares to a gain of over 18 per cent for the month. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index® gained +0.8 per cent in April, extending 2015 gains, with contributions from exposure to Emerging Markets and Energy, as reported today by HFR®, the established global leader in the indexation, analysis and research of the global hedge fund industry.
April performance was led by the
- 11/05/2015
Man GLG's Henry Dixon reacts to the UK General Election result…
It’s been an extraordinary election, and clearly the result is pro-growth. While utilities are rising today in reaction, I actually don’t think they will benefit much further. The real winners are the banks, which we as investors can now look at in a much more favourable light.
You can’t underestimate the confidence banks will be feeling now in terms of their futures, and this could be an inflexion point for them, potentially drawing a line under PPI claims, bringing an end to the fine culture, and creating a
- 10/05/2015
There has been a very long and very active debate over the value of hedge funds given their returns during 2014. But hedge fund managers may be showing their mettle as global financial and geopolitical volatility continues and the hedge fund industry is beginning to beat popular indexes, according to eVestment’s just-released April 2015 Hedge Fund Performance Report.
In April, hedge funds produced an aggregate return of +1.22 per cent, lifting 2015 year-to-date returns to +2.92 per cent, beating the S&P 500 returns of +0.96 per cent in April and +1.93 per cent year to date.
Among the variety of
- 08/05/2015
Fifth Street Asset Management has appointed David A Heilbrunn as a Managing Director and member of the firm's Management Committee.
Heilbrunn will be responsible for driving growth across Fifth Street's businesses, specifically focusing on expanding its growing structured credit products platform, developing institutional client relationships and optimising the firm's various financing arrangements.
Heilbrunn joins Fifth Street with over 27 years of experience focused on institutional business development and structured credit products. Most recently, as a Managing Director of The Carlyle Group (Carlyle), Heilbrunn played a leading role in the creation of two non-traded business development companies raising over USD2.2 billion
- 08/05/2015
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