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GAM this week announced the launch of a UCITS equity fund that will seek to tap into the economic potential of Asia’s ASEAN markets: namely Singapore, Malaysia
Lloyd George Management, a boutique London-based investment firm established by the eponymous Robert Lloyd
SW Mitchell Capital, the USD2billion London-based European equities specialist is planning to soft close the
Lyxor Asset Management has partnered with Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) to launch the first single hedge fund manager on its UCITS Lyxor Dimension Platform. The Lyxor/Old Mutual Global Statistical Arbitrage Strategy Index Fund offers exposure to a pure alpha strategy managed by Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK)
Paul Simpson, Head of Systematic Investments and Senior Portfolio Manager at Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK), says: “Our strategy is a quantitative equity market neutral model exploiting short term pricing opportunities and actively trading large capitalisation equities.” This investment process has been in place since 2007 at Old Mutual and it has
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Long Island-based investment adviser with defrauding investors in hedge funds investing in PIPE transactions and misappropriating more than USD1 million in client assets for his personal use.
The SEC alleges that Corey Ribotsky and his firm The NIR Group LLC repeatedly lied to investors to hide the truth that his PIPE investment and trading strategy was failing during the financial crisis. For example, Ribotsky falsely told investors that despite the adverse market conditions he could liquidate all of the PIPE investments in 36 to 48 months – a practical impossibility given the
National Futures Association (NFA) and GFI Group have entered into an agreement that paves the way for NFA to perform regulatory services for GFI’s swap execution facility (SEF).
The agreement establishes a preliminary framework for the exchange of information and the development of technology standards that will enable GFI and the NFA, to develop, test and launch automated trade practice and surveillance systems and also to develop procedures and processes necessary for GFI to fulfill its SEF self-regulatory obligations. Upon the issuance of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) final SEF rules, NFA and GFI anticipate that they will enter
Mirae Asset Global Investments, a Korean asset manager and one of Asia&rsqu
New data released by AsiaHedge shows that Asian hedge fund assets contracted by 5 per cent in the first half of 2011 to USD145billion reported Reuters thi
Asia’s second largest hedge fund, Sparx Group Co., is to start a fund that will invest in hotel construction following Japan’s devastating ear
Société Générale’s co-head of fixed income and currencies in Asia, Adam Reynolds, has left to join hedge fund manager The
