In recent years equity swaps have emerged as one of a series of equity derivative products that are playing an increasingly integral par
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up 0.92 per cent in April. The top performing strategies over the month were fixed income arbitrage (up 3.02 per cent), L/S credit arbitrage (1.95 per cent), and convertible bonds and volatility arbitrage (1.79
A new London-based company, Noble Asset Management (NAM), has been launched to capture the out-performance of emerging hedge fund managers.<
With DAX-listed companies alone set to distribute EUR 18 billion to shareholders in 2006, call option holders should take care to exercise their op
Deutsche Bank has partnered with Toscafund to launch a Ucits III version of the Tosca Mid Cap fund. The fund, launched on Deutsche Bank’s Platinum platform, will seek to mirror the Tosca Mid Cap Fund managed by Martin Hughes, the
The NIR Group, LLC has closed the USD 1.5 bn West Trade Funding CDO I, the group’s first collateralized debt obligation transaction.
SEC-registered investment adviser Torrey Associates has appointed John Casano as Head of Risk Management. Casano joins Torrey from Credit Suisse’s USD 15 billion fund of hedge funds division where, among other responsibilities, he worked closely with the Risk Management Group
Finisterre Capital, an emerging markets total return specialist, is changing the name and liquidity terms of the Finisterre Special Situations Fund. The fund will now be known as the Finisterre Credit Fund and will continue to concentrate on bottom-up
Guernsey is on the brink of what many industry professionals believe may be a revolution in the way funds are authorised and regulated, following th
USD 9.2bn AuM BlueCrest is making its hedge fund strategies available to UK institutional and HNWI investors for the first time via an AIM-
