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The Conifer Group, LLC (Conifer), a provider of fund administration, middle office, trading and prime brokerage services to the hedge fund industry, has named Peter O’Connell (pictured) as its Chief Financial Officer. Prior to accepting this position, O’Connell was the President and founder of Conifer Fund Services offshore fund administration business.
In addition, Conifer has also named Douglas Lang as President of Conifer Fund Services and David Bateman as Director and Head of Conifer Fund Services, BVI.
This executive reorganisation comes as Conifer embarks on a period of expansion designed to further meet the evolving needs of the hedge
The principal sectors of Jersey’s finance industry showed strong growth in the first three months of 2011, with rises in new fund launches and the value of funds under administration providing particularly positive news for Jersey’s funds sector.
Geoff Cook, Chief Executive of Jersey Finance Limited, was encouraged by the strong performance for the first quarter of 2011, highlighting that the value of funds being administered in Jersey is now at its highest since June 2009 and that the total number of funds has increased by the largest amount for the first quarter of any year since 2008.
Furthermore, bank
Kevin Huby has been appointed a Member at Kinetic Partners to focus on building the firm’s risk management and remediation services. This new appointment will complement and significantly strengthen Kinetic Partners’ highly regarded regulation and compliance service offering.
Huby joins Kinetic Partners from Ernst & Young, where he established and led a team focusing on the investigation and resolution of accounting, operational and regulatory control failure.
During his time at Ernst & Young, Huby was recognised as the firm’s leading specialist in asset servicing and investment administration and led a number of major projects for many of the world’s
Hedgeweek spoke to Lisa Corvese, MD Global Product Marketing, PerTrac following the recent release of the company’s eighth annual hedge fund database study entitled: Sizing the 2010 hedge fund universe.
On 8 June, 2011, The Honourable Jed S Rakoff of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a judgment against Gautham Shankar in SEC v Galleon Management, LP, et al, 09-CV-8811, an insider trading case the SEC filed on October 16, 2009. The SEC charged Shankar, who was a registered representative and a proprietary trader at the broker-dealer Schottenfeld Group, LLC, during the relevant time period, with using inside information to trade ahead of impending acquisitions and earnings announcements.
In its action, the SEC alleged that, on July 2, 2007, Shankar was tipped with
JP Morgan Securities LLC is to pay USD153.6 million to settle SEC charges that it misled investors in a complex mortgage securities transaction just as the housing market was starting to plummet. Under the settlement, harmed investors will receive all of their money back.
In settling the SEC’s fraud charges against the firm, JP Morgan also agreed to improve the way it reviews and approves mortgage securities transactions.
The SEC alleges that JP Morgan structured and marketed a synthetic collateralized debt obligation (CDO) without informing investors that a hedge fund helped select the assets in the CDO portfolio and had
JP Morgan has launched a full prime brokerage offering for clients in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The investment bank now has the local infrastructure in place to serve international and regional clients across the entire spectrum of both cash and synthetic products for the first time.
The build-out of the European platform reflects the firm’s wider strategy to invest in Prime Services and offer a full suite of products for hedge fund clients globally.
“This is a key milestone for our international business,” says Sandie O’Connor (pictured), Global head of Prime Services at JP Morgan. “These local capabilities
Morningstar, Inc has begun to calculate estimated returns for hedge funds based on publicly available filings. The company has estimated quarterly returns for approximately 1,700 hedge funds, including some of the largest and most prominent in the industry.
Although hedge funds do not have to publicly file disclosures, many entities that hold hedge funds, like registered funds of hedge funds, do. Morningstar culls information from these funds of funds using two types of filings to estimate returns—portfolio holdings disclosures and financial statements. From these filings, Morningstar collects the beginning market value of an individual hedge fund holding in a fund
As of the end of May 2011, the total volume of assets in the investment funds covered by the statistics compiled by Swiss Fund Data AG and Lipper stood at CHF 653.6 billion, with Swiss funds for institutional investors accounting for some CHF 231.2 billion of this figure.
Due to the falling prices on the markets, assets under management depreciated in all asset classes in the month under review, dropping a total of CHF 11.8 billion month-on-month. Despite the gloomier outlooks, the Swiss fund market enjoyed net inflows totalling some CHF 876.2 million.
What was striking last month was the
Religare Global Asset Management (RGAM), a wholly owned subsidiary and the multi-boutique asset management arm of integrated financial services group, Religare Enterprises Limited, has appointed Alan Berkshire as President – North America.


RGAM’s strategy is to acquire equity stakes in top-tier asset management firms around the world with proven performance and capabilities in traditional as well as alternative asset classes. RGAM aims to facilitate the growth of its affiliates by providing wider sales and distribution support and facilitating access to capital and deal flow in countries where Religare’s broader financial services platform has a presence, while leaving the existing management
