Fairtree Asset Management (Pty) Ltd, a multi-strategy alternative and long only investment manager established in 2003, has selected Prescient Fund Services Ireland as the UCITS Management Company and Fund Administrator for its first Irish UCITS fund. The Fairtree Global Flexible
There are now 713 global institutional investors with an active CTA portfolio, a significant increase on 2011 when the number stood at 504, and 2008 when just 331 had CTA funds in their holdings. Preqin has conducted analysis of the
Eighty per cent of the 300 financial officers from large European companies taking part in Greenwich Associates 2012 European Trade Finance Study — and nine out of 10 from companies in the FT 500 — expect pricing on trade finance
Grant Thornton has appointed Michael Patanella as leader of its national asset management sector. “Michael’s expertise and vast knowledge of asset management will be key as we continue to drive growth in this area of our financial services practice,” says
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management solutions, has release of Hazeltree Securities Finance Version 7, a comprehensive portfolio finance solution integrated with new market coloru, benchmark and intra-day rates, and utilisation trends. Hazeltree Securities Finance Version 7 enables
Chinese equities are starting to catch up after underperforming the global market for two years, says Jian Shi Cortesi (pictured), fund manager of the JB Chindonesia Fund at Swiss & Global Asset Management… From a macro perspective, recent economic figures
December’s good news was that 13 of the 46 markets posted gains, according to data released by S&P Indices. The bad news was that only two made gains for the year, and just barely – Indonesia was up 1.14%, and
As the West increasingly looks to the Mena region for new business, Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the Island’s finance industry, looks at what the West has to offer in the
Tourmaline Partners, an outsourced trading solutions firm, has made two senior hires in Australia, with Matt McShane joining as Director of Operations for Asia, and Simon Twiss as Director of Pan-Asia Trading. Since opening its Asia-Pacific office in Sydney in
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), has welcomed the HMRC’s response in the consultation exercise on changes to UK’s Investment Manager Exemption (IME).
