Amber Capital has launched Amber Equity Fund – a UCITS version of the Amber Italia Equity Fund – on the Alpha UCITS platform. The Amber Equity Fund is managed by Amber Capital Italia SGR, a Milan based asset management company
Gamma Finance, a provider of advisory services to the alternative investment sector, has been awarded advisory mandates of USD500m by clients seeking to optimise exits from a diverse range of lower-liquidity assets, including real estate and private equity positions. Placement
HSBC Global Asset Management has hired four people for its global macro and investment strategy team, led by Philip Poole in London. Poole (pictured) joined Global Asset Management in July 2010 from HSBC Global Research where he was global head of
2100 Xenon Group, an affiliate of Old Mutual Asset Management (OMAM), is to acquire the majority ownership interest in its business from its parent company OMAM. The transaction, the value of which was not disclosed, is expected to close by
Alternative investment firm Hatteras Funds will host a series of forums across the US for financial advisers, home office research teams and consultants to meet the underlying hedge fund managers of the Hatteras Alternative Mutual Funds. Following a similar forum
HSBC Securities Services (HSS) has made key appointments in sales for North America and Europe. Kevin Skorzewski joins as head of sales for North America. In this new role, Skorzewski will be responsible for building out HSBC’s securities services franchise
MarketAxess has expanded its suite of electronic trading protocols to help investors and broker-dealers more effectively source liquidity in the credit markets. MarketAxess has developed the industry’s first anonymous request-for-quote (RFQ) trading protocol for the credit markets on DealerAxess, its
Four years after the meltdown of the US sub-prime mortgage market and the credit crunch, allocators and investors still face a market environment that stubbornly refuses to return to ‘normal’. Do market players need to learn new rules for
TIM Group has launched a new service that enables the fund of hedge funds (FoHFs) industry to react faster to changing market and industry conditions. Through a series of newly developed Application Program Interfaces (APIs), TIM Funds Connect enables
Managed futures lost 0.69 per cent in September, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The index remains up 0.51 per cent year to date. “A second month of rising equity prices generated profits for momentum-based managers, but
