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Aberdeen Asset Management Asia Ltd, the Singapore-based operating arm of Aberdeen Asset Management, announced this week the launch of its third closed-ended property FoFs to the
A combination of tough volatility in the commodity markets and continuing fears over Greece’s sovereign debt crisis (not to mention the contagion spilling over into Portugal, Italy and Irelan
The head of Nomura Holdings Inc’s Global Opportunities Group prop trading desk, Benjamin Fuchs, is planning to start his own hedge
Agincourt Capital, a global real estate funds management company based in Hong Kong and with offices in London and Australia, today (14 July) launched its RMB-denominated conver
Quintillion Limited, an independently operated hedge fund administration company, has released a new version of its client reporting portal, Q-Reports.
The new portal provides Quintillion’s hedge fund clients with ground-breaking transparency, uniquely enabling them to view real-time information on the progress of their fund through all stages of Quintillion’s world class control and exception management environment. Hedge funds will now have a live view as each stage is completed and reviewed all the way from trade capture to investor statement production.
Q-Reports brings the recognised efficiency and transparency of Quintillion’s respected Q-Control dashboard directly to the client’s desk.
The US has just begun to “realise the promise of natural gas” and it “should seize the moment to transform the American economy,” according to one of the industry’s leading energy analysts said today at the 10th annual Dow Jones Indexes Mid-Year Commodity Review and Outlook media event.
In addition to PFG Best Research’s energy analyst, Phil Flynn, journalists also heard from panelists including David Krein, Dow Jones Indexes’ Senior Director, Product Development and Analytics; Jack Scoville, Vice President, Price Futures Group; Patricia Cauley, Director, Metals Products at CME Group; and John Kowalik, an Executive Director with UBS’ Commodities Investor
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed and simultaneously settled charges that Robert S. Moss, of Charlotte, NC, fraudulently solicited more than USD3 million from 22 individuals to trade options on commodity futures through a commodity pool. Moss has never been registered with the CFTC.
The CFTC order finds that, from at least 2001 through 2008, Moss misrepresented his past trading performance to pool participants and sustained trading losses. Moss also misappropriated at least USD1.5 million of the pool participants’ funds for personal and household expenses and to pay the mortgage on his residence, the order finds. Moss
Senior industry executive Jeffrey Strauss has returned to Butterfield Fulcrum to head the firm’s US operations. As President of Butterfield Fulcrum Group (US) Inc, Strauss will be responsible for all aspects of the US market for the company including sales, marketing, operations and growth.
“Jeff is a senior and seasoned industry executive and we are delighted to welcome him back to Butterfield Fulcrum, where he will be responsible for further strengthening our client relationships and our industry presence,“ says Glenn Henderson, CEO of Butterfield Fulcrum. “With Jeff’s return our focus will be to strengthen our middle office offering as
Castle Alternative Invest AG, a fund of hedge funds listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange and on the London Stock Exchange, authorised the company’s board to effect a share buyback programme at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on 17 May 2011. Under the programme a maximum of 10 per cent of the company’s share capital (1,748,160 shares) can be repurchased. The effective size of the programme remains at the discretion of the board in light of available portfolio liquidity, the number of shares already purchased and market conditions.
Dates for the share buyback programme have now been confirmed. It
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