HSBC Global Asset Management this week launched the latest in its range of Global Investment Funds – HSBC GIF Frontier Markets Fund.
Manager skill continues to take centre stage in these volatile times according to GAIM conference director Victoria Chatterton (pictured). With that in mind, this year’s event focuses on four big picture themes: Evolving investor opinions on manager selection and asset
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary L Schapiro and senior SEC staff met today with the UK Financial Services Authority’s (FSA) chief executive Hector Sants (pictured) and its managing director of the conduct business unit Martin Wheatley as part of
By Chris DeNigris – The Cayman Islands are the second largest market globally in terms of client assets under administration or management for Koger, as a provider of fund administration and transfer agency software to many of the world’s
FIX Protocol Limited (FPL), has appointed Justin Stephan, Director of Trading Applications at Wellington Management Company, as the new Co-Chair of the FPL Global Steering Committee, the group responsible for driving FPL’s strategy worldwide. Greg Wood meanwhile, Vice President of
Billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen’s SAC Capital has agreed to plead guilty to criminal insider trading charges and pay a USD1.8bn fine, according to a statement released by US federal prosecutors. SAC’s investment advisory business will close as a
PerTrac, a provider of analytics, reporting and communications software for investment professionals, has released RiskPlus 2.0, an upgrade to its award-winning application for managing portfolio risk. Built in partnership with FinAnalytica, the leading provider of multi-asset class predictive performance analytics
By Simon Gray – Corporate governance has been at the centre of discussions worldwide about the future of alternative fund management and regulation, and nowhere more than in the Cayman Islands. Over the past few months the jurisdiction has attracted
BNP Paribas Securities Services announced this week news that it had won a new mandate from Duemme International Luxembourg, the asset management arm of Banca
ConvergEx Group has changed the name of NorthPoint Trading Partners to ConvergEx Prime Services, effective 30 November. “Since joining ConvergEx in 2009, our organisation has expanded and changed in tremendous ways. The synergies that have been created have made us
