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The Alternative Investment Management Association has welcomed the lifting of the Australian short selling ban.
Andrew Baker, Aima chief executive, says the lifting of the ban means there is now broad international consensus that short selling is a legitimate market practice. It creates liquidity in capital markets, assists price discovery, and is an invaluable tool in terms of risk management.
‘This is the last of the major bans on short selling to have been lifted and we are delighted that Australia has followed other leading economies in this respect,’ he says.
Aima Australia’s chairman Kim Ivey adds: ‘This is
Global Leveraged Capital, a private investment and merchant banking firm, has formed GLC Advisors to deliver advice with a capital markets perspective to debtors, creditors and other st
Concept Capital, an institutional broker and total solutions provider for global investment managers, has appointed K.
The Alternative Investment Management Association says it plans to mobilise the world’s hedge fund industry on the European Commission’s draft directive for Alternative Investment Fund
PNC Global Investment Servicing has launched fund distribution support services in Asia.
The directors of Castle Alternative Invest, a closed-ended investment company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange, have published a prospectus in connection with its dual listing on the Lo
The Alternative Investment Management Association says it is ‘very concerned’ about the manner in which the European Commission’s directive on the industry has been drafted.
Managed futures managers stayed on a downward performance pattern in April, posting a negative 0.77 per cent return on average, according to the Lipper Tass Flash Estimate Report.
Pictet Funds, the investment fund distribution arm of Pictet & Cie, has listed the PF (Lux) Absolute Return Global Diversified Fund on the IFA platform Ascentric.
Ascentric is an asset consolidation service for advisers that offers a full wrap platform service, and is now the first IFA platform to offer the ARGD fund for sale in the UK.
The fund targets a return of four per cent over Libor over a three to five year time frame and is managed by Pictet’s dedicated multi asset and total return team, part of Pictet Asset Management’s Geneva-based balanced and quantitative investment
Sprott Asset Management’s senior portfolio manager, Jean-Francois Tardif, has expressed his intention to retire on 7 July.
