Law firm Sidley Austin has added Antony Bryceson to its London office as counsel in the investment funds, advisers and derivatives practice. Bryceson will focus his practice on advising clients on prime brokerage, custody, securities lending, repurchase and OTC derivatives
San Francisco based algorithmic fund, Galiam Capital, debuted on 1 February, 2012 with over USD100 million under management (AUM). Galiam Capital provides liquidity to the financial markets by using proprietary mathematical models to identify statistical arbitrage and market-making opportunities. The
Hong Kong-based Diamond Dragon Advisors Ltd, Asia’s first independent general partner advisory and fund placement firm established by industry veteran Ed Greene
Indian stock markets have been witnessing a bloodbath of late, and India-focused hedge funds, which earlier were pushing up the market to unprecedented heights, are now looking to benefit
Guernsey now has more than GBP 100bn worth of fund assets under administration – with growth of 36% in 2005.
New Star Asset Management has announced the appointment from September of Donald Pepper as head of alternative investment.
Standard & Poor’s has launched the S&P Factor Indices, which seek to measure the risk premium inherent between asset classes and financial markets, creating a means for investors to track the spread between a long and short sub-index. Each index
Caspian, a full-stack crypto trading, portfolio and risk management platform for institutional and sophisticated traders, has partnered with Blockfills, an electronic, off-exchange digital liquidity provider, to provide institutional clients with access to deep liquidity and real-time continuous pricing. Caspian has added
Nomura Asset Management Co (NAM) has become the first asset manager headquartered in Japan to provide access to CLSSettlement for Japanese-domiciled funds. NAM is working with three trust banks: The Nomura Trust and Banking Co (NMTB); Japan Trustee Services
A new income producing asset class based on securitising loans underpinned by US life insurance policies presents investors with considerably reduced risk when compared to securitised life settlement funds, says Andrew Walters, finance director for the Secured Life Fund. His
