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EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy says he will launch a wide-ranging public consultation on oversight and risks attached to hedge funds.
Rreef Alternative Investments, Deutsche Bank’s alternatives asset management business, has finalised an agreement first announced at the end of October to acquire a significant minority in
Offshore law firm Conyers Dill & Pearman has opened Conyers Dill e Pearman (Brazil) Servicos de Consultoria in São Paulo, paving the way for the firm to provide offshore legal s
Use of derivatives by UK fund managers will rise over the next 12 to 18 months despite market turbulence and record levels of redemptions from hedge funds, according to a report from indep
BlueBay Asset Management has announced that it plans to wind down the BlueBay Emerging Market Total Return Fund, which has lost more than half of its value this year, and the resignation o
RWC Partners is planning to launch a convertible bond fund in January to take advantage of pricing anomalies in the convertible bond asset class.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s office of general counsel has announced the issues of no-action letters allowing futures contracts based on Korean and Thai equity indices to be
Fortis Prime Fund Solutions has obtained an SAS 70 Type II statement for its entities in the Americas in Curacao, the Cayman Islands and New York, and has also achieved an SAS 70 Type I st
SRM Advisers, the Monaco-based hedge fund management firm run by the former star UBS proprietary trader Jon Wood, is suing the Wall Street Journal for publishing what it says was confident
Hamburg-based Union Investment Real Estate is expanding the portfolio of its UniImmo: Europa open-ended real estate fund, which has liquidity of around 30 per cent, with the acquisition of
