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Espirito Santo Financiere SA, Luxembourg (ESFIL), a fully owned subsidiary of Espirito Santo Group SA (ESFG) and ADEPA Asset Management SA (ADEPA) have signed an agreement that gives ESFIL a 40% stake in ADEPA though a capital increase. The partnership will enable ADEPA to build on its successes and capitalise on the increased market opportunities for its fund administration and investor services and reinforces the presence of ESFG in Luxembourg. ADEPA’s focus will remain the provision of a diversified range of services to institutional and professional investors worldwide. Carlos Alberto Morales López and Javier Valls Martinez, shareholders and promoters of
Apollo Global Management has completed the initial public offering of the Apollo Senior Floating Rate Fund, Inc (the fund). The fund is a closed-end fund investing primarily in a portfolio of senior secured floating rate loans with the objective of current income and preservation of capital. The fund began trading on Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol “AFT”. The fund issued USD300 million in its common stock offering, exclusive of the underwriters’ overallotment. Apollo Credit Management, LLC, an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, LLC, is the fund’s investment adviser. The lead managers of the common
To capitalise on divergence and inefficiency in emerging markets, JP Morgan Asset Management has decided to launch an absolute return fund, the giant US banking outfit announced this week.
Malta-headquartered ML Capital Asset Management, who recently launched its Montlake UCITS Platform to primarily support non-EU domiciled fund managers, has rev
London-headquartered RAB Capital has launched a UCITS III-compliant version of its Cayman Island-domiciled RAB Europe fund (RAB Prime Europe UCITS), which will
Deutsche Bank has added another UCITS fund to its DB Platinum IV platform, with the announcement today (Friday 25th February) that it has teamed up with Ly
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a Notice of Intent to Suspend, Revoke or Restrict the Registrations (Notice) of M25 Investments, In. (M25) and M37 Investments, LLC (M37), registered Commodity Trading Advisors of Waxahachie, Texas. According to the CFTC’s Notice, filed on February 23, 2011, M25 and M37 are subject to disqualification from registration under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) based on a federal court’s entry of a permanent injunction order against them. The Notice specifically states that on October 25, 2010, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas entered a consent order of
Deutsche Bank and Lynx Asset Management have launched a UCITS III compliant version of the Lynx fund. The DB Platinum IV Lynx Index. which was launched on Deutsche Bank‟s DB Platinum IV platform in February 2011, is managed by Lynx, part of Brummer & Partners group in Stockholm, in accordance with the systematic strategy applied by the Lynx programme and offers daily liquidity. The Lynx UCITS III fund is managed by Jonas Bengtsson, Svante Bergström and Martin Sandquist. As of February 2011, the programme assets of Lynx were USD3.3bn. Deutsche Bank’s global head of the dbSelect platform, Hans Jacob Feder,
Morris, Manning & Martin has expanded its Funds & Alternative Investments Practice with the addition of Margaret R A Paradis as partner.   The firm’s Funds & Alternative Investments Practice includes 25 lawyers from multiple areas of legal specialisation and in the past three years, has closed more than USD15 billion in transactions/offerings for alternative investments. Formerly a partner with Baker & McKenzie in New York, Paradis will be resident in Morris, Manning & Martin’s Washington, DC office. She is an investment fund and asset management lawyer with extensive experience advising managers on structuring, formation, operation and regulation of alternative
After shuttering both its funds last August, DragonBack Capital, led by Rob Lance and Phil Tye, moved swiftly to re-establish itself as an Asian hedge fund platform: the DragonBack Manage

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