The Association of Investment Management Sales Executives, has announced the results of its first annual ‘Diamonds and Duds’ poll.

CrossBorder Capital has appointed William Bourne as director of sales to build on its recent growth and in anticipation of new fund offerings later this year.

Murex has announced that BlueCrest Capital Management, a European hedge fund manager with USD 13bn under management, is now live on MX.3 for its Multi-Strategy Credit Master Fund, a new st

Arguably, 2007 was the most important year for hedge funds in Asia since GFIA started researching the Asian hedge fund universe in 1998. First, it was clearly a good year for returns.

Daiwa Securities Global Asset Services, the fund servicing arm of the Daiwa Securities Group, has obtained a statement of auditing standards, SAS70 report, from its independent auditors KP

Mourant du Feu & Jeune, part of Mourant, has hired two partners, Richard de Basto and Matthew Feargrieve, for its Cayman funds and finance practice groups. Richard de Basto joins from Allen & Overy, where he was a partner for close to eight years, working in their London, Hong Kong and Amsterdam offices. de Basto has extensive experience in the field of asset, construction and project finance, and specialises in advising clients on major and complex finance transactions. His current practice includes Islamic finance, restructuring and insolvency, leveraged finance, global loans, securitisation and real estate finance. Based in the Cayman

The National Futures Association has taken emergency enforcement action against Innovative Capital Management, a commodity pool operator and commodity trading adviser based in Brooklyn,

More than 50 new alternative funds were launched in Asia in 2007, raising USD5bn in assets, and the continent’s hedge fund industry saw total assets under management rise by just over 20 per cent –

Hong Kong and Singapore, the traditional rivals for financial services business in Asia outside Japan, are also doing battle to become the region’s de facto hub for hedge funds and other alternativ

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) and The Singapore Commodity Exchange (Sicom) have agreed in-principle to SGX acquiring at least 95 per cent of Sicom, through the subscription of shares, for a