Global online real estate trading platform Lamudi has named the capital city of Bangladesh as the most affordable location in the emerging markets to buy commercial property. Continue Reading
Global online real estate trading platform Lamudi has named the capital city of Bangladesh as the most affordable location in the emerging markets to buy commercial property. Continue Reading
We are looking to source a LatAm Corporate Credit Investment Analyst for a highly reputable global asset manager’s New York based team. This fund invests across a range of Emerging Markets including leveraged finance, structured bank loans, mezzanine, high-yield, credit derivatives, investment grade and structured finance and utilise bottom-up approach across all of their offerings.… Continue Reading
Private equity firm Catterton has hired several Eton Park associates to form its first Latin America fund. Former Eton Park executives Dirk Donath and Ricardo Salmon are joining Catterton along with several team members from Eton Park, according to media reports. Donath, who joined Eton Park in 2005 and has extensive experience with illiquid emerging… Continue Reading
Motilal Oswal Asset Management Company (MOAMC) has launched an offshore hedge fund through its Mauritius-based investment management company. The long-only-bottoms-up fund, called India Zen Fund, hopes to raise $100 million by December 2015. The fund will specialize in investing in Indian mid-cap securities with a private equity-style diligence approach, the company said in a statement.… Continue Reading
By Andrei Skvarsky. Surveys by Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, suggest that the average Russian was slightly more optimistic about the country’s overall economic situation but thriftier in the first quarter of 2015 than in the last three months of 2014. Continue Reading
Cyprus-based foreign exchange trader IronFX warns that Greece’s promised debt payment to the International Monetary Fund on April 9 and domestic social spending planned for this month may send the country’s economy back into recession. Continue Reading
Looking to source a bright and analytical equity research analyst for our tier 1 hedge fund client. The ideal candidate will have an excellent academic background and strong modelling experience, preferably with up to 3 years’ experience. There is a leaning towards those that have exposure to any of the following sectors: Industrials Automobiles Chemicals… Continue Reading
By Andrei Skvarsky. With its macroeconomics showing an upturn, Pakistan’s real estate sector is arousing increasing interest abroad, with the United States topping the list of foreign investors, according to global property portal Lamudi. Continue Reading
By Jerome Booth, Chairman, New Sparta. It’s generally a good idea to buy cheap and sell high, not the other way round. On any fundamental value basis the Russian market is oversold – not least due to the relentlessly negative headlines in the Western press. Of course one shouldn’t try to catch falling knives. But… Continue Reading
(Reuters) – George Soros is ready to invest $1 billion in Ukraine if Western countries help private investment there, and sees a 1 in 3 chance Greece will leave the euro, the billionaire financier told Austrian newspaper Der Standard. Soros has previously urged the West to step up aid to Ukraine, outlining steps toward a $50… Continue Reading
A new survey by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) shows that hedge funds there have amassed a record $120.9 billion in assets under management, eclipsing 2008’s prior peak of $90.1 billion. The report shows that as of the start of the fourth quarter of 2014, SFC-licensed managers indicated a growth in AUM… Continue Reading
Prior to joining MCAM, Han was Group Head of Private Placement Services at KTB Investment & Securities, one of South Korea’s largest independent investment banking and brokerage firms. Before that, he was a founding partner at Straight Wharf Capital Management, an Asian equity long/short hedge fund seeded by Julian Robertson’s Tiger Fund Management. Han’s career… Continue Reading
Carlyle International Energy Partners (CIEP) announced plans to purchase Sterling Resources’ Romanian gas fields. The news comes just a few days after the private equity fund announced it had raised $2.5 billion to purchase global energy assets. With the slump in oil prices hammering Sterling’s revenue streams, the deal allowed Carlyle to snap up at… Continue Reading
Northern Trust’s fast-growing hedge fund administration business has promoted David Burnett to head of Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Based in London, Burnett will lead Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services in EMEA, reporting to Peter Sanchez, global head of Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services, according to a press… Continue Reading
Our client is a leading global investment fund with an established real estate business. They are looking to hire an Analyst for their Special Situations Real Estate team in London. The fund has a flexible investment mandate to invest across the capital structure, both within UK & Europe, and has significant capital ready to deploy.… Continue Reading
The former head of EMEA hedge fund trading at Citigroup, who left the bank to head up Evercore ISI’s European trading business in the summer of last year, has re-emerged at Marshall Wace. Charlie Mansour joined Marshall Wace earlier this month according to filings with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) after just five months at… Continue Reading
A fast growing investment consultancy firm is looking to add a Director of Business Development to their London team. The newly created role will support the firm’s growth and expansion in the UK and Europe. Reporting to the Global Head of Business Development and Director of Operations, London, the successful candidate will be responsible for… Continue Reading
The offices in Harare of Zimbabwean business and financial news agency The Source were raided by police and lawyers from Zimbabwe’s largest mobile phone operator on March 26, an act condemned by the Thomson Reuters Foundation and European Journalism Centre, creators of the news agency. Continue Reading
By Andrei Skvarsky. Morgan Stanley has named Jonathan Pruzan, co-head of the bank’s global financial institutions group in investment banking, as chief financial officer to replace Ruth Porat, who has been hired as finance chief by Google, according to various media reports. Continue Reading
By Andrei Skvarsky. Regular surveys by Deutsche Boerse-owned research company MNI Indicators suggest that business sentiment in Russia bounced back in March after a protracted decline but that overall the Russian economy remains on a downward course, with the firm’s chief economist arguing it “may already be in recession”. Continue Reading
Armajaro Asset Management’s John Tilney is stepping down from the lead manager role of the company’s flagship Armajaro Commodities Fund. Tilney will become an advisor to the fund, according to media reports. His role will be assumed by Armajaro partner and fund co-manager Oliver Denny. Armajaro’s Commodity Fund is down 5.49% year to date, according… Continue Reading
Emerging managers have their work cut out for them when it comes to attracting assets, but recent data shows the majority of the top new funds grew AUM last year. 74% of hedge funds on Hedgetracker’s Top Emerging Hedge Fund Managers list saw equity assets increase during the fourth quarter of 2014, while the group… Continue Reading
Man Group’s 2014 acquisition of Boston-based quant shop Numeric Holdings has resulted in two new quantitative UCITS being debuted to the European market. The Man Numeric Market Neutral Alternative fund and the Man Numeric Emerging Markets Equity fund are both domiciled in Dublin. The Man Numeric Market Neutral Alternative fund is a UCITS-compliant version of… Continue Reading
Rothschild Asset Management, the US asset management business of the Rothschild Group, has appointed Michael Woods as its new CEO. Woods joins the firm frrom Deutsche Bank, where he was Head of the Americas, Global Client Group for Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management and CEO of DWS Investments. In these roles, he was responsible for… Continue Reading
Carlyle Group has closed on a new international energy fund with commitments of $2.5 billion from 160 investors, according to media reports. The new fund, which surpassed Carlyle’s initial $1.5 billion target, will invest exclusively in oil and gas projects located outside the U.S. Carlyle is in good company. Since the collapse in oil prices… Continue Reading
Brazilian asset management firm Peninsula Investimentos is launching a distressed-asset fund. Backed by Credit Suisse Group, the fund is expected to be around R$500 million, or approximately $155 million. The company has brought on five new staff members for the effort, according to media reports quoting CEO Antonio Quintella, and will begin raising the fund… Continue Reading
TPG Capital has appointed Zubin Irani to managing direct in its operations group in Asia-Pacific. He will relocate to the company’s Singapore office from New Delhi, India. In his new role, Irani will aim to build out the firm’s operations and boost talent management and performance across the firm’s various portfolios, the company said in… Continue Reading
Former Goldman Sachs co-head of Asia Pacific macro trading, Stuart Riley, has joined Brevan Howard ex-trader Chris Rokos in his new venture, according to media reports. Rokos, who reportedly made $4 billion for Brevan Howard between 2004 and 2012, began setting up his own fund after a legal dispute with Brevan came to an end… Continue Reading
The hedge fund industry’s rapid growth and an increasingly complex regulatory environment have fueled differing views on transparency and independent controls among hedge fund managers and institutional investors, according to a new survey by Northern Trust. An overwhelming majority of managers (90%) said that all or nearly all of their investors are satisfied with the… Continue Reading