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Pallas Global has launched a real estate investment and advisory firm in New York City. This full-service investment and advisory firm serves real estate developers by providing financing from Pallas’ proprietary network of hedge funds, family offices and high net worth individuals throughout the World.
Pallas also assists real estate investors who are interested in investing in the residential, hospitality and commercial markets, including retail and mixed-use properties, specifically in Manhattan.
This innovative company works as an intermediary between private owner-operators and qualified investors. The company specialises in providing equity and debt capital financing for commercial and residential real estate
AXA Investment Managers announced this week that it had obtained permission to open a representative office in Beijing having received its registration certificate from Beijing Administration of Industry and Commerce.
Ying Du has been appointed as Chief Representative and will report to Terence Lam, AXA IM head of sales & marketing, Asia. In a move that certainly helps solidify the firm’s presence in the region, the new office will focus on performing market research and building relationships with Chinese institutional investors. AXA IM says it wants to contribute to the rapid development of China’s asset management industry; having a
In the framework of the NER 300 Initiative of the European Investment Bank (EIB,) European Energy Exchange (EEX) will launch auctions of EU allowances (EUA), which will be held on four days per week on its Derivatives Market in June and July.
For the first time, EU allowances for the third trading period will be auctioned on EEX.
The EIB auctions will be carried out by EEX during the period from 7 June to 31 July 2012. The auctions are scheduled to take place on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of the respective weeks with a volume of 625,000 EUAs
A new State Street Vision report featuring independent research carried out in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit, points to the emergence of a new paradigm in Europe in which asset managers must adapt to the radically changing needs of investors in the wake of the financial crisis.
This Vision paper, “The Changing Shape of European Investment Management – Volume 3: Navigating Complexity,” also explores other key factors that are shaping Europe’s asset management industry including changing investor needs, widespread regulatory reform and urgent demographic trends.
In this comprehensive study which surveyed more than 160 European asset managers, the most
This year’s GAIM International at the Meridien Beach Plaza in Monaco is a star-studded affair. The industry talent expected to congregate looks set to reflect the dazzling depths of the Mediterranean breaking just offshore.
Such luminary names as GLG Partners’ chief investment strategist Jamil Baz, Professor Niall Ferguson of Harvard University and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, principal of Universa Investments – and of Black Swan fame – will be speaking. Not to mention countless panel discussions featuring the likes of Gavyn Davies of Fulcrum Asset Management, Jane Buchan, CEO of PAAMCO and end investors ranging from Barclays Pension Fund to the
Agecroft Partners, a global hedge fund consulting and third party marketing firm, has hired hedge fund veteran Cara Fleckenstein as a Managing Director.
Cara brings considerable institutional hedge fund experience to Agecroft Partners. Her experience includes marketing at a multi-billion dollar hedge fund, capital introduction at Bank of America, institutional options sales at Citibank, and options market-making at Societe Generale.
During this time she has developed a very strong knowledge of hedge fund investment strategies and the capital markets, which should give her significant credibility with large institutional investors. Cara’s responsibilities will include assisting with due diligence on potential hedge
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished down 0.04% for the month of April.
Four of the broad index’s 10 sub-strategies recorded positive returns – Fixed Income Arbitrage (0.69%), Multi-Startegy (0.58%), Managed Futures (0.43%) and Emerging Markets (0.15%) – while Dedicated Short Bias was the worst performing sub-strategy at −2.53%.
There have not been any funds dropped from the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index in April.
The following funds have been added to the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index: Brevan Howard Systematic Trading Fund, Castle Creek Arbitrage, GS Gamma Investments Fund, HSBC GIF –
Fiona Le Poidevin, the current Deputy Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance, will take over as Chief Executive from Peter Niven with effect from 30 June.
Niven has been with Guernsey Finance since 2006 and will continue to act in a part time consultancy role with the company until the end of 2012.
Making the announcement, Jim Gilligan, the Chairman of Guernsey Finance, reflected on Niven’s time as head of the Island’s promotional body for the finance industry.
“In the six years that Peter has been at the helm, the work of Guernsey Finance has led the way in the marketing
Kinetic Partners is partnering with Redkite Financial Markets to offer a comprehensive regulatory and trading surveillance solution.
The partnership, which combines Kinetic Partners’ unique expertise in advising on monitoring and surveillance requirements and Redkite’s market-leading software, will help firms respond to regulatory pressure to adopt automated, real-time trade monitoring and surveillance. The announcement comes shortly after ESMA’s 1st May deadline which required firms to comply with its guidelines on systems and controls in an automated trading environment. This latest guidance reflects the increasing importance that regulators are putting on trade monitoring and analysis, in the wider context of a crackdown
Harcourt, a subsidiary of Vontobel Asset Management, has appointed Jan Viebig and Georg Wessling to further expand and strengthen its expertise in alternative investments.
Viebig takes up the position of Head of Alternative Investments. Wessling will act as Deputy Head of Alternative Investments.
Viebig replaces the former CEO of Harcourt, Stephan Fritz, who has decided to leave Vontobel Asset Management. Viebig has over 12 years of investment experience in alternative investments and emerging markets. He joins Harcourt from Credit Suisse, where he currently is Head of Emerging Market Equities. Before this, he was Senior Hedge Fund Manager at
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