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Matrix Group, the privately owned UK financial services business, has hired Alkesh Chohan as an analyst in its fund of hedge funds group.
Chohan joins from TCP Asset Management where he worked as an investment analyst for three years.
He will further strengthen the five-strong fund of funds team at Matrix and will be responsible for conducting thorough due diligence on prospective managers and developing existing relationships with fund managers and prime brokers.
Stuart Ratcliff (pictured), chief investment officer of Matrix’ funds of hedge funds team, says: “We are delighted to welcome Alkesh to Matrix. His addition to
- 07/09/2010
- 07/09/2010
General Motors has selected GlobeOp Financial Services as its service provider for daily collateral management, valuation and reconciliations across its over-the-counter derivatives portfolio.
GlobeOp will support General Motors’ treasury department with the management of foreign exchange, commodity and interest rate derivatives.
Services include collateral management, reconciliation and independent valuation analysis of complex securities.
"Reducing operational risk through diversified counterparty exposure and close collateral management is an important fundamental best practice," says Jon Anderson, GlobeOp head of valuations and OTC derivatives. "In addition to partnering with our experienced OTC group, General Motors’ treasury team will be able to monitor work flows
- 07/09/2010
Insparo Asset Management has appointed emerging markets veteran Graham Stock as chief strategist.
Stock will join the core management team, led by chief investment officer Mohammed Hanif, which will be responsible for plotting the firm’s investment direction as it enters its third year.
Primarily, Stock will be responsible for generating trading ideas and thematic strategies to capture the opportunities presented by Africa and the Middle East.
Stock spent the last 12 years at JP Morgan in a range of senior roles with responsibility for areas such as Ceemea FX strategy in London and Latin American sovereign strategy in New
- 07/09/2010
Simon Tortell and Associates is a leading Maltese law firm and is one of Malta’s most experienced firms in the hedge fund industry, having been directly involved with several important
- 07/09/2010
- 07/09/2010
Asset manager GLG Partners has appointed Mark Diab as portfolio manager.
Diab will take responsibility for Mena equities within the GLG emerging markets team and will report into Bart Turtelboom and Karim Abdel-Motaal, GLG’s co-heads of emerging markets.
“We are delighted that Mark is joining GLG – his knowledge of the Mena region, as well as his broad investment and financial services experience will be an added strength to the GLG emerging markets team. He has a fantastic investment track record and we look forward to the significant contribution that Mark will bring to the firm going forward,” says
- 07/09/2010
- 07/09/2010
In the first of two articles, Grant Stein (pictured), global managing partner of international law firm Walkers, argues that contrary to popular stereotypes, the Cayman Islands are not only fully committed to tax transparency and information-sharing but are actively involved in the OECD’s decision-making process for shaping international standards in this area.
Demand for an increasingly open, accountable and transparent government and regulatory system is as strong in the Cayman Islands as it is in the US and other G-20 nations. Despite the dated stereotype clung to by critics, usually based on subjective and flawed information and/or methodology, Cayman has
- 07/09/2010
- 06/09/2010
Talk about the elephant in the room. The Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive surely has the largest ears and the longest trunk of the species.
- 06/09/2010
After the lull in activity that affected all fund jurisdictions in the post-crisis period, there are now clear signs of risk appetite returning and that promoters are willing and able to laun
- 06/09/2010
Malta has not only weathered the worldwide financial crisis but seems to be one of the few jurisdictions where growth momentum has been sustained.
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