Latest News
Frontier Capital Management, an investment management company that combines both traditional and alternative asset classes, has promoted Andrew Cracknell to head of intermediary business.
This includes IFA and discretionary wealth managers focused largely on the UK.
Cracknell joined Frontier Capital at the start of 2007, becoming partner in 2008.
Alex Gaitan has been appointed as portfolio manager of Frontier Capital’s hedge fund, Global Hedge. The fund is designed to provide investors with the returns of the global hedge fund industry, but with high levels of liquidity and low levels of risk to underlying managers. The fund manages investments of
- 02/09/2010
Emmanuel Roman will assume the newly created role of chief operating officer of Man following the company’s acquisition of GLG Partners.
The announcement follows the news that Man shareholders have approved the acquisition of GLG Partners.
Pierre Lagrange will continue in his role of senior managing director of GLG, overseeing investment management and running GLG’s flagship European long short equity strategy among others.
Noam Gottesman will remain co-chief executive of GLG with Roman and will run GLG’s global opportunity strategy.
All three will report to Peter Clarke, chief executive of Man.
Clarke says: “The combination of Man and GLG will
- 02/09/2010
Javelin Capital, an asset manager specialising in global equities, has launched.
It is backed by Majedie Investments, which has an initial 70 per cent holding.
In setting up this subsidiary company, Majedie Investments is seeking to repeat the success of a previous venture, Majedie Asset Management, in providing seed money and operational capital to a specialist asset manager.
Javelin Capital will focus on global and emerging markets equities, using investment approaches with the goal of achieving consistent high return, low volatility performance. It will run long-short and long-only funds and mandates, using a multi-strategy equity approach, on behalf of
- 02/09/2010
Galtere, a US registered investment manager, has launched an agribusiness private equity strategy that aims to take advantage of a fundamental shift in global market dynamics and a growing worldwide demand for commodities from institutional investors.
The agribusiness strategy makes direct investments in industrial scale commodity production facilities in Brazil, Uruguay and Australia.
The strategy employs a long-term investment horizon of seven years to increase efficiency, production and profit of its projects, before monetising its investments via trade sale or IPO.
Galtere is aiming to raise USD1bn of assets from institutions, endowments and family offices.
The strategy is lead-managed
- 02/09/2010
The International Capital Market Association has appointed Simon White, head of senior issuance at Lloyds Banking Group in London, as chair of its UK, Ireland and Americas region.
White will work with ICMA to coordinate its activities in the City of London and more broadly in the region.
His initial priorities include building on relationships between members and ensuring optimal contacts and information flow between members and ICMA.
Martin Scheck, ICMA chief executive, says: "Simon is admirably qualified to take on the chairman’s role at this critical juncture, where actions under consideration by governments and regulators will define the
- 01/09/2010
- 01/09/2010
Altin, the Swiss alternative investment company, has reported a decline in net asset value of 0.60 per cent for the first half of 2010.
This brings its year-to-date performance to +0.83 per cent.
In 2009, Altin had a net asset value of +13.57 per cent.
The HFR Fund of Fund Index fell by 1.23 per cent in the first half of 2010.
As of 30 June 2010, the long short equity strategy makes up the majority of Altin’s portfolio at 33.3 per cent.
- 01/09/2010
- 01/09/2010
RS Platou Markets, the investment banking arm of RS Platou Group, has selected Fidessa group’s Software as a Service sell-side trading platform.
The Oslo-based brokerage firm will be using Fidessa to underpin its global trading operations including connectivity to a number of multilateral trading facilities.
Fidessa’s smart order routing capabilities were a significant factor in RS Platou’s decision, as was the brokerage’s move into algorithmic trading which is now supported by Fidessa’s fully integrated algorithmic trading engine, BlueBox.
Preben Sohlberg and Magnus Halvorsen, co-heads of equity sales at RS Platou, said: "After thorough investigation, RS Platou Markets decided to sign
- 01/09/2010
Ahead of the start of World Water Week on 5 September, research from S&P Indices shows the continued strong performance of water-related businesses.
The five year return of the S&P Global Water Index is now eclipsing more traditional equity indices.
Over the last five years, the total return of the S&P Global Water Index is +7.3 per cent, which compares favourably both to the S&P 500 (-0.2 per cent) and the S&P Global BMI (+2.9 per cent).
In recent years the relatively weak performance of established large cap and traditional equity stocks has been well documented, but the
- 01/09/2010
- 01/09/2010
Concerto Asset Management, a manager of US corporate credit based in Charlotte, North Carolina, has received a EUR60m credit alpha absolute return mandate from Goodhart Partners, a multi-manager business based in London.
The win takes Concerto Asset Management, an SEC registered investment adviser, to a total AUM of USD140m and also broadens the firm’s product offering.
The mandate will form part of the Ucits III absolute return bond fund run by Goodhart.
Julie Bouhuys, founder and chief executive of Concerto, says: “With government bond yields at such low levels, there is a real need for products, which can replace that
- 01/09/2010
- 01/09/2010
Atrato Advisors, the hedge fund consulting firm, has appointed two research professionals.
Michael Boensch, formerly of Gleacher Fund Advisors, joined Atrato as a vice president earlier this year. Boensch, who also worked at multi-family office CSM Capital Management, brings over five years of research experience to the firm.
More recently, Atrato brought Danny Santos on board, adding operational depth to its research bench. Santos, who had interned at Atrato while attending business school, previously worked at Private Client Resources, a financial reporting and analytics firm.
Atrato has landed several new mandates in recent months, predominately in the family office and
- 01/09/2010
Special Reports
FeatureD
- Intel
- May 2, 2024
- Intel
- May 1, 2024
- Intel
- April 30, 2024
- Intel
- April 29, 2024
- Intel
- April 26, 2024
- Intel
- April 25, 2024
- Intel
- April 24, 2024
