International legal practice Norton Rose is to combine with US law firm Fulbright & Jaworski on 1 June 2013 to form Norton Rose Fulbright. Norton Rose Fulbright will have 3,800 lawyers and will be a top 10 global legal practice
Eurex Clearing’s EurexOTC Clear for Interest Rate Swaps (IRS) successfully went live on 13 November 2012. The launch was supported by Eurex Clearing’s cooperation banks Barclays, Citigroup Global Markets Ltd, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan. In addition, Commerzbank,
Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) is to acquire an equity interest in Garda Capital Partners. After the closing of the transaction, the senior partners of Garda will continue to hold a majority of the equity of the business and direct the
Eze Castle Integration, a leading provider of IT and private cloud services to the hedge fund community, announced this week that it had expanded its Eze Private Cloud services to Hong Kong and Singapore. The cloud is used by more
The Asian hedge fund industry expanded to a record number of hedge funds in Q3 2012, as strong performance across emerging Asian strategies continued to attract the interest of both Asian and global investors, according to data released by HFR.
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished down 0.18 per cent for the month of October. Managed futures (-4.64 per cent) was the worst performer among the 10 sub strategies, while event driven (0.91 per cent) was the
After the success of its initial Gaining the Edge-Hedge Fund Educational Webinars, Agecroft Partners has announced that it is to run the series monthly. “When we first launched the webinar series, we were very excited about the technology and enhanced
Veritas Asset Management (UK) and its parent The Real Return Group, which currently manage GBP8.5bn across a range of products, have announced a corporate reorganisation that will create two distinct limited liability partnerships. The Veritas Private Client business will be
Patrician Asset Management has launched the Citizen Entertainment Fund to focus on debt investments in media companies. CEF’s first investor is a major European public company. The fund is a low volatility, non-correlated debt fund and is managed by Film
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP has appointed Eric A.Bensky, Jennifer Dunn, Christopher S.Harrison and David J Karp as partners. The firm has also promoted James T Bentley, Michael G Cutini, Farzad F Damania, William I Friedman, Frank J LaSalle, James
