Brokers Killik & Co have issued an advice note with the non UK domiciled wealthy in mind.

SuperDerivatives and Liffe have teamed up to provide SuperDerivatives’s users with direct access to the Liffe Connect electronic trading platform.

The Restricted Securities Trading Network has announced it will create a secondary market that allows hedge funds to buy and sell auction-rate securities.

The derivatives specialist and adviser Cardano has announced its appointment by the trustees of the GKN Group Pension Scheme, one of the UK’s largest pension funds with assets of over GBP2

Investor returns of between eight and 11 per cent a year without the attendant risks of pure equity-based investment are being highlighted in a drive to raise the profile of the Assured Fu

Tim Love and Joaquim Nogueira are to step down from the management of the Cazenove Absolute Return Fund and leave the company, by mutual agreement. 

The pace of new European hedge fund launches slowed in 2007 for the first time in several years, according to EuroHedge, with both the number of funds launched and the combined volume of a

Funds in Guernsey grew another GBP13.7bn (8.3 per cent) in the final three months of 2007 despite continued market turbulence during the quarter.  

Some global snapshots from Societe-General Asset Managem, kicking off with concern that bond insurers or monoliners will be the next US trouble spot . . . Monoliners (bond insurers) have taken centre stage with fears running high that another financial market domino is about to fall, ultimately impairing banks’ already damaged balance sheets. Monoliners developed in the US for the purposes of insuring municipal bonds. This fundamentally low-risk activity has since expanded to include the realm of structured products which, when guaranteed by monoliners, benefit from the latter’s traditionally AAA credit ratings. Structured products accounted for approximately one-third of debt

While market volatility fuels the debate between investing in equities or cash, Talib Sheikh, co-fund manager of the JPM Cautious Total Return Fund explains his outlook, current asset allo