The newly elected Exchange Council of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has elected Peter Heydecker, Head of Origination Gas & Power, Vitol SA, as its chairman. The Exchange Council also elected Dr Bernhard Walter, EnBW Trading GmbH, Pierre Chevalier, DB
By James Williams – “What the Special Limited Partnership (SCSp) does is provide a legal vehicle that specifically and systematically addresses every area of concern for private equity managers when they look at what are the available options to them
In light of the current fiscal and monetary concerns that are gripping the minds of investors around the world, Institutional Asset Manager asked the heads of some of the world’s leading asset managers to share their thinking on portfolio management
The assets under management of Luxembourg-domiciled funds reached a historic high of EUR2,225 billion at the end of April 2012, according to the Association of the Luxembourg Funds Industry (ALFI). Luxembourg remains the largest European fund centre, followed by France
Cantor Fitzgerald Europe is further expanding its European structured credit desk with the appointment of Sheil Aggarwal as managing director. Aggarwal will focus on asset-back securities, mortgage-backed securities and collateralized loan obligations (CLO), and will be based in London.
Introducing The Alternative View – the quarterly e-newsletter featuring all the latest insight and thinking from BlackRock’s Head of Alternatives, Matt Botein.
The Eurex Exchange Council has unanimously approved the planned introduction of a completely new trading architecture at its regular meeting. This approval meets a major legal requirement. The introduction of the new trading system will, among other things, also require
Misys has appointed Martin Häring as chief marketing officer. He joins the business from the cloud-based content and application delivery network provider Akamai, where he was vice president marketing and channels. Häring’s role is to strengthen the Misys brand and augment
Last month’s popular Hedgeweek-PerTrac webinar – Fund allocation challenges in turbulent times: Are alternatives the answer? – which was hosted by Hedgeweek managing editor Simon Gray and examined some of the issues currently facing fund allocators and the options open
This week the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) announced that it had modified its rules on the provision of the key investor information document (KIID), required to
