Newscape Capital Group, the London based investment firm, has launched its third specialist Ucits fund. The Newscape Dynamic Rates and Currency Fund will target an annualised return of 12 to 15 per cent with annualised volatility expected to be around
Mayfair-based Murano Systems is planning to open an office in New York in the spring of 2013. This will be the boutique company’s second office and will offer the same asset-raising services as the company’s existing London operation. Murano’s way
Huobi Group has launched Huobi OTC Desk, a fully regulated service built on Huobi’s Gibraltar FSC-issued Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) license supporting both crypto-to-crypto and fiat-to-crypto transactions, including those made in US dollars (USD), British pound sterling (GBP), and euros (EUR)
As part of a major repositioning, currency asset and liability manager The ECU Group has appointed a number of senior executive and non executive directors, who have also become significant investors in the company. ECU plans to build upon the
Ruth Lea, Economic Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking Group, discusses aspects of the forthcoming Autumn Statement, due on 5 December… It is universally expected that the accompanying economic growth forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility will be significantly downgraded
As conventional managers continue to enter the alternatives space, servicing new product lines provides difficult operational challenges for fund managers, according to Sylvain Privat (pictured), Senior Product Manager, Misys… “When it comes to servicing alternatives products, the requirements for
Fiera Capital Corporation (Fiera Capital) is to acquire acquire all of the outstanding shares of Foresters Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Foresters Financial. Foresters Asset Management is an Ontario-based investment management firm focused on institutional and insurance liability-driven
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued a letter informing the North American Derivatives Exchange (NADEX) that it has commenced a 90-day review of NADEX’s proposed political event derivatives contracts. The review is based on the possibility that these
Interview with Chris Barrow – The tumultuous events of the eurozone debt crisis, which sent the markets into a tail spin this summer, have caused a lot of headaches for investment professionals. But for HSBC’s Prime Services offering, which launched
Download the Misys white paper ‘Searching for alpha’ As conventional managers continue to enter the alternatives space, servicing new product lines provides difficult operational challenges for fund managers, according to Sylvain Privat (pictured), Senior Product Manager, Misys… “When it comes
