03/21/2014
36 South Capital Advisors LLP, whose Black Swan Fund returned 204 percent in 2008, is starting a new hedge fund targeting Australian (ASX) institutions seeking protection from market downturns and additional returns.
03/21/2014
ABC Arbitrage, a French trading group that runs an alternative asset manager specializing in arbitrage strategies, saw its net revenues go down by 46% from last year
03/20/2014
UK-BASED Capita has elbowed past Irish rival Certus for the contract to manage any commercial property loans transferred to NAMA from IBRC.
03/20/2014
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn plans to raise $2 billion in a macro hedge fund
03/20/2014
Euroclear Sweden, the Swedish Central Securities Depository, today launches a link to Euroclear Bank's automated processing platform for cross-border and domestic funds - known as FundSettle.
03/19/2014
Transatlantic Alliance Strengthens Private Equity Fund Services
03/18/2014
Playing the normalisation of European bank capital structures will continue to provide opportunities to earn high yield-like returns with lower risk for at least three years
03/18/2014
In force for an initial period of three years, this agreement was renewable automatically for successive periods of one year.
03/18/2014
Emerging markets-focused asset manager reports AUM Swell
Pretax profit grew to USD9.5 million from USD5.1 million.
03/18/2014
Crispin Odey piles into online fashion firm
Shares were priced at 50p giving it a market value of £560m on admission.
03/17/2014
City 'superwoman’ to chair film fund
All three have different levels of experience in the film industry, but it is the first time they will have worked together.
03/17/2014
The placement was oversubscribed by investors seeking attractive opportunities in the UK real estate market.
03/17/2014
ALLIANCE Trust chief executive Katherine Garrett-Cox has seen her total remuneration package fall from £1.8 million to less than £1.4m because of a near 30% reduction in her bonuses.
03/17/2014
Emerging market debt investors Laura Burakreis and Marco Freire of Franklin Templeton have taken to three months their run at the top of The Herald's table of fund management houses with a strong Scottish presence
03/17/2014
Funds will be based on indices weighted according to contribution to economic output
03/17/2014
Survey of investors backs Sainsbury's and Justin King as industry prepares for price war
03/17/2014
Standard Life Investments has opened an absolute return portfolio to wider institutional investors.
03/17/2014
Hedge fund boutique to enter UK retail market
Looking to break into the UK retail market with a global equity income fund for former JPMorgan and Gam manager Ross Hollyman.
03/14/2014
Ashburton Investments gets SA approval
Jersey-based Veronika Pechlaner, who manages the Ashburton Global Leaders Equity Fund together with investment director Nick Lee, said: "Our focus is on finding 20 quality mega-caps, which are global leaders within attractive industries.
03/14/2014
The flock of AIFMD licenses continues
KB Associates’s management company has been authorised by the Central Bank of Ireland under AIFMD.