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Amundi Alternative Investments (Amundi AI) has awarded, through its Managed Account Platform, a EUR50 million mandate to FrontFour Capital Group LLC to actively trade, under AIFM compliant format, an event-driven strategy concentrated on North American situations.
The event driven strategy, run by FrontFour Capital Group LLC since 2006, focuses on the small & mid cap universe where outsized alpha opportunities have traditionally been found. The investment team, which has worked together since 2004, applies a deep fundamental bottom-up approach to identify and exploit value-unlocking catalysts such as M&A, asset spin-offs, stock buybacks and management change. It invests across the capital
- 13/01/2015
Aequitas Capital Partners has partnered with Circle Squared Alternative Investments to provide training and education to Registered Investment Advisers via the ACP Alts Academy.
The academy will will provide the advisor community with educational seminars focusing on alternative investments, strategies, and solutions to meet the demands of high-net-worth investors.
The inaugural ACP Alts Academy webinar for ACP members, powered by the CSQ Institute, with be held on 13 January, 2015, and will be hosted by Jeff Sica, CIO and founder of Circle Squared Alternative Investments. Key topics include Circle Squared's 2015 outlook for alternative investments. In addition, Sica will provide
- 13/01/2015
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has opened a new office in Luxembourg, headed by Partner Stéphane Ober, who joined the firm in November 2014.
The Luxembourg team includes four additional new partners and a team of eight associates.
The four partners, who joined the firm on 01 January 2015, are:
Louis-Maël Cogis who has acted for some of the largest international investment banks in both capital markets and international banking matters. He has particular expertise on issues of debt securities, securitisation transactions, syndicated lending and leveraged acquisition finance.
Viviane De Moreau d'Andoy who has more than
- 13/01/2015
- 13/01/2015
Keith Dingwall, a veteran of the fund industry, has joined KNEIP as Head of New Business, leading a team of sales managers to acquire new business and identify growth opportunities within existing portfolios.
Dingwall will report directly to Renaud Oury, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at KNEIP.
Before joining KNEIP, Keith worked for 13 years at State Street Bank and International Financial Data Services in Luxembourg. He held various senior management positions in the Transfer Agency business, including operations, client relationship management and business development. Prior to that, Keith worked for a decade in JP Morgan Asset Management`s operations in
- 12/01/2015
International law firm Brown Rudnick has hired Moris Mashali as a Partner in its Corporate & Capital Markets practices in London.
The Founding Chairman of risk management advisory firm RIMA Consulting Limited, Moris focuses on general corporate transactions, acting for high net worth families, hedge funds and businesses in the hospitality, real estate and technology sectors.
He is dual qualified as a Solicitor (England and Wales) and an Attorney-At-Law (New York) and advises on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, venture capital financing, seed investments in hedge fund businesses and technology start-ups, private equity investments in public equity, public to private
- 12/01/2015
Hedge funds acted as shock absorbers during the wide market gyrations recorded at the beginning of 2015. This year started with a large risk-off move and high volatility on all asset classes. Along with oil prices and rates, equities went sharply down as economic activity was below expectations in December and a potential Greek exit is making the headlines again in Europe. The US dollar posted strong gains, especially against the Euro, fuelled by the expectations that the ECB will find a consensus to adopt expansionary measures as the Eurozone entered deflation.
- 12/01/2015
The total value of exits from private equity-backed portfolio companies throughout 2014 hit USD428bn, higher than any year previously and up from the USD330bn of exits in 2013. Christopher Elvin, Preqin’s Head of Private Equity Products, comments on the current deals and exits environment:
2014 represented the highest ever annual value of private equity-backed buyout exits. This has resulted in a significant increase in the level of capital being returned to buyout fund investors, which had almost surpassed the full-year 2013 amount as of June 2014 (the latest data available). Furthermore, the total value of private equity backed buyout deals
- 12/01/2015
Electronic market maker Virtu Financial (Virtu) is to join as a participant of GMEX Exchange to offer liquidity in GMEX’s pioneering Interest Rate Swap Constant Maturity Future (CMF) contracts.
Orders will be matched on the GMEX exchange platform, with trade confirmation and clearing occurring at Eurex.
"We are pleased to have Virtu join as a committed liquidity provider for launch," says Hirander Misra, CEO of GMEX Group. "We continue to make great progress leading up to our launch in terms of on-boarding buy side firms, banks and futures trading houses both directly and through vendor connections."
"This decision to expand
- 12/01/2015
CloudMargin and AcadiaSoft have completed the integration of their respective solutions to provide real-time collateral management communication to their clients.
Using the new link to AcadiaSoft MarginSphere, CloudMargin’s clients are able to issue and respond to margin calls, manage disputes and then negotiate and process margin movements electronically with their brokers. This happens in real-time without sending emails or faxes, prevents the re-keying of data and removes the need to monitor an email inbox. Their brokers benefit hugely from greatly increased automation with their buy-side clients, lower error rates and reduced manual intervention.
CloudMargin is the cloud-based cross-product collateral management
- 12/01/2015
- 12/01/2015
Candriam Investors Group has appointed Guillaume Abel as Global Head of Marketing and Renato Guerriero as Global Head of European Client Relations.
Abel, who joins from Amundi Group, will begin his role to lead the Marketing department within the pan-European asset manager. He also becomes Member of the Executive Committee.
Guerriero has also become a Member of the Executive Committee.
Abel has over 17 years’ experience in the Asset Management industry as a leading brand and marketing strategist, as well as an expert in global business development for both institutional and wholesale sectors. He joins from Amundi where
- 12/01/2015
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