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Sturgeon Ventures has appointed Tom Powell as chief operating officer and investment adviser and has launched a “Virtual Chief Operating Officer” service for clients.
Sturgeon specialises in helping entrepreneurs establish start-up financial services businesses in the institutional and wealth management space.
The new service is a project management tool for start-ups in the UK and foreign companies wishing to set up operation in London.
Sturgeon’s client list includes oil and gas advisory firm Wimmer Financial, US-based M&A consultancies such as Moelis and Harris Williams and venture capital platform Venture Capital Partners.
Seonaid Mackenzie, managing partner of Sturgeon, says: “We are
- 28/09/2010
Signature Group has formed a partnership with Apache Advisors, a Dubai based consultancy.
As part of this partnership Apache Advisors will provide strategic input to Signature’s distribution and product structuring strategies.
Paul Forsyth, the co-founder of Apache Advisors, will become a non-executive director of the Signature Group.
Pankaj Agrawal (pictured), chairman of Signature Group, says: "We are continuing to strengthen our senior management team to enable us to develop the finest investment solutions for our clients and prospective investors. The skills and experience of Mr. Forsyth will be a valuable asset as our group develops and expands internationally."
Forsyth adds:
- 27/09/2010
Driven principally by demand from investors for greater transparency and liquidity of their investments, the growth of investment in hedge fund strategies through managed accounts continues t
- 27/09/2010
Following the financial turbulence, institutional and other investors increasingly began to investigate managed accounts as a solution to asset control issues that emerged with pooled fund in
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Gottex Solutions Services was established to service the needs of the Gottex group’s fund management arm, Gottex Fund Management, for risk transparency and managed accounts.
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Northern Trust is transitioning hedge funds, funds of funds and single funds managed by Signina Capital from offshore domiciles to Luxembourg.
Signina Capital, a Swiss-based independent investment manager with close to CHF400m (approximately USD404m) in assets under management , recently hired Northern Trust for fund services, including fund administration and Hedge Fund Monitor, which enables clients to track and analyse their hedge fund investments in real time.
“We are seeing an increasing trend for hedge funds to launch Ucits and non-Ucits funds in jurisdictions such as Luxembourg and Ireland,” says Ian Headon, head of product development for Northern Trust’s
- 27/09/2010
Hedge fund managed account platforms were around long before the current boom in interest from investors began in the wake of the industry’s liquidity crisis, the bankruptcy of Lehman B
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The surge of interest in managed accounts over the past two years has opened up the market to third-party investment platforms offered by a range of providers, including notably investment ba
- 27/09/2010
One of the key reason investors seek managed accounts is that they want transparency and liquidity, so service providers must be able to administer managed accounts on a daily basis –as Custo
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The past two years have seen a surge in the number of institutional investors seeking to access hedge fund strategies through separately managed accounts, in the development of third-party platform
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