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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has obtained more than USD700,000 in restitution and civil monetary penalties in a federal court order against Jeffrey Shalhoub of Staten Island, NY, and his company, Jeff Shalhoub Investments (JSI) of Long Island City, NY, in connection with the fraudulent operation of a commodity futures Ponzi scheme.
The consent order, entered by the Honorable Joanna Seybert of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on February 23, 2011, requires Shalhoub to pay USD241,900 in restitution and a USD463,500 civil monetary penalty. The order also permanently bars Shalhoub from engaging
As anticipation builds in response to one of Asia’s largest ever launches, ex-Goldman’s trader Morgan Sze has chosen the three prime brokers for hi
The head of Highbridge Capital Management’s Asia investments, Carl Huttenlocher, has told colleagues that he is leaving the firm to start his own hedge f
Financial Risk Management, one of the world’s biggest hedge fund research and investment specialists, has launched
An article published in AsianInvestor this week has shone a light on the active equity long/short trading strategy of the USD30million Singapore-based Aksha
The second edition of the Hedgeweek Awards for excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers has recognised the increased focus on transparency, consistency and depth of expertise in the new investment climate.
The awards, presented today (Thursday) by actress Cherie Lunghi (pictured, with Hedgeweek’s Sunil Gopalan) at a lunch in Mayfair, were decided by the votes of Hedgeweek’s nearly 41,000 subscribers, who include individual and institutional investors as well as managers and other industry professionals at firms including fund administrators, prime brokers, custodians and advisers.
The 2011 Hedgeweek Awards reflect the industry’s recovery from its difficulties in 2008 and
BH Credit Catalysts recently published their January 2011 performance results, showing the net asset value per US share stood at USD10.08 representing a 1.79% gain and at 1007p per GBP share, representing a 1.75% gain for the month.
The fund employs a catalyst driven trading style where relatively small individual positions can become significant drivers of a future month’s returns, once an anticipated event occurs. An example of this actually happened in January 2011, with the SmurfitStone Container Corporation (SSCC), the US-based containerboard (cardboard box) manufacturer.
By the third quarter of 2010, all these catalysts were realised and
Swiss-based alternative investments solutions provider Harcourt Investment Consulting AG, saw assets under management (AuM) reach USD48bn as of 31 December 2010, corresponding to a growth of USD300m for the full year 2010.
The increase in AuM proves the strengthened investor appetite for alternative investments. Harcourt experienced further allocations to existing Fund of Hedge Funds products as well as to new customised mandates, mostly originated from pension funds and other institutional investors. Moreover, the excellent performing ‘Belvista Commodity Fund’, a UCITS III compliant broadly diversified commodity fund, saw substantial inflows during the year.
In 2010, Harcourt successfully launched two products providing
Mizuho Corporate Bank is to acquire 95% of the issued and outstanding ordinary shares, on a fully-diluted basis, of hedge fund research and data services company, Eurekahedge.
In October 2010, MHCB established Mizuho Global Alternative Investments as a wholly owned subsidiary, to select and provide alternative investment hedge fund products for Japanese institutional clients including corporate pension funds and financial institutions.
MGAI and Eurekahedge previously entered into a business alliance agreement and are strengthening their collaborative efforts through joint projects such as the launch of the Japanese version MGAI-EH Newsletter, an analytical report on the hedge fund industry that MGAI
The international derivatives exchanges of Eurex Group recorded an average daily volume of 10.3 million contracts in February.Of those, 7.1 million were Eurex contracts (Feb 2010: 7.45 million), and 3.2 million contracts (Feb 2010: 3.15 million) were traded at the U.S.-based International Securities Exchange (ISE). In total, 142.1 million contracts were traded at Eurex and 61.0 million at the ISE.
In its largest product segment – equity index derivatives – Eurex Exchange achieved 58.4 million contracts (Feb 2010: 67.1 million), thereof 28.1 million were index futures and 30.3 million were index options. Futures on the EURO STOXX 50 Index stood
