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March
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Atlantic Investment Management has started an Asia-focused hedge fund.
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Ballista Securities has hired a Global Head of Sales and Marketing
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Ballista Securities has hired a Global Head of Sales and Marketing
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Chinese firms pass the margin trading test.
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Tim Smollen, global head of agency lending at Deutsche Bank discusses the acquisition of Commerzbank AG’s securities lending business and the benefits it will bring.
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Brazil is facing a number of short term challenges as it continues its economic development but remains a solid long term investment
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The Nordic region offers good investment opportunities but with strong domestic players well established and some large international players also in place, has anyone wanting to access the market now left it too late?
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A recent technical amendment to the tax regulations affecting repo caused what seemed to be a disproportionate reaction from the market
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The credit crisis has prompted a rethink around regulation and how more stringent and transparent guidelines can deter future market traumas. But will recent regulation changes help or hinder the market in years to come?
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Read our comprehensive round-up of all the biggest mandate wins.
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The $5.5 billon Lancashire pension fund is looking for a new global custodian
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Imbalances within international accounting standards was one of the big debates at the annual National Association of Pension Funds conference held in Edinburgh.
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Newedge USA has joined NASDAQ OMX Group’s majority-owned clearinghouse for interest rate swaps.
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The Pension Protection Fund is looking to invest in private equity
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Bank of China unit, BOCI, has linked with SunGard
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Bursa Malaysia Derivatives selects Patsystems
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) chairman is calling for new regulations for credit default swaps.
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Clearstream has started two new direct links with Bulgaria and Romania.
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Colombian pension fund, Proteccion, is looking to invest $1.3 billion in private equity by 2012
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The European Union may ban naked selling of derivatives contracts
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An ex-Asia head of Deutsche Bank’s Saba proprietary trading desk, is planning to launch a hedge fund
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The proposed European Union private equity rules may bar EU investors from investing in funds based outside the region.
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J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services today announced that it has been selected by the Government of Canada to provide an expanded set of collateral management services for derivatives.
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This new fund gives UK retail investors access to Martin Currie’s top-performing China team
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RBC Dexia Investor Services today announced that it has been selected by RBC Global Asset Management to provide custody and trustee services to Canadian investment management company Phillips, Hager & North.
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The long-term fund of the University of Sydney’s endowment will, for the first time, invest directly in hedge funds
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The London Stock Exchange today announced that UBS has become a new issuer of Exchange Traded Commodities (ETCs) on its markets.
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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has postponed the short-selling reporting deadline from April 1 to June 1
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The Securities and Exchange Board of India has granted BNP Paribas India a Custodian of Securities licence
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London-based transaction network for funds, Calastone, has appointed Sebastien Chaker as head of its new Luxembourg office
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J.P. Morgan's Worldwide Securities Services business today announced that it has been awarded a mandate to provide custody and related services to two pension funds.
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J.P. Morgan's Worldwide Securities Services business today announced it has been awarded two new mandates from charities and endowments in Europe.
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NASDAQ OMX has purchased Chicago-based North American Energy Credit and Clearing.
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Northern Trust announced today that David McPhillips has been named director of Consultant Relations for the Corporate & Institutional Services business unit in North America.
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RBC Dexia Investor Services has been selected by Omega Global Investors to provide custody, administration and registry services
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RBC Wealth Management has made a senior appointment to its London-based UK onshore business
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State Street has retained the mandate to service the British Airways Pension Trustees’ £14 billion UK pension fund
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SunGard has rolled out two new Stream Gateways for the Singapore Exchange and the London Stock Exchange
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The United Auto Workers VEBA will conclude an asset allocation/liability study in late March or April.
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UBS is looking to start a European “dark pool” structured as a multilateral trading facility
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Three firms are willing to partner with the New York Federal Reserve as it plans to use reverse repurchase agreements (repo) to control liquidity in financial markets.
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The Australian Securities Lending Association (ASLA) has released a comprehensive newsletter detailing key market events of the past 18 months.
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BNY Mellon has agreed to acquire BHF Asset Servicing from BHF subject to regulatory approvals.
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Trustees of Chicago Policemen’s Annuity & Benefit Fund have approved the appointment of four transition managers
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Ways of promoting world economic stability through more cohesive financial market regulation were discussed by central banks and sovereign wealth funds at the Inaugural Meeting of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF).
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NYSE Euronext is launching a new clearinghouse in July
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Finance Unlimited, Citadel Capital's platform company in the regional financial services industry, has named a new CEO.
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Hennessee Group, an adviser to hedge fund investors, announced today that the Hennessee Hedge Fund Index advanced +0.96% in February.
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Icap is planning to dispose off its cash equities business
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Stichting Pensioenfonds Vopak has hired JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services as custodian
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Capintro Partners has released the results of its second Middle East Hedge Fund Investor Survey for 2010.
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Asset Super has reappointed National Australia Bank’s asset servicing unit as custodian
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SEI has been selected by AlphaOne Capital Partners to provide a complete outsourcing solution, including middle and back-office services, for the firm’s portfolio of investment products.
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The real estate unit of Franklin Templeton is seeking to raise $300 million for its second Asian real estate fund
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Thailand’s Government Pension Fund is planning to expand its investments into commodities, global private equities and real estate
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The Volcker Rule being proposed by the US government includes a provision that may separate investment management from custody, securities or prime brokerage services
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Battery Ventures has raised about $709 million for its ninth investment fund
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Shawn McNinch has been appointed as global ETF product and sales head by Brown Brothers Harriman
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Bolsas y Mercados Españoles is planning to set up a subscription, redemption and transfer platform for mutual funds
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BNP Paribas is reviewing options for its mutual fund business in India
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Evercore Partners has agreed to buy 49% of money-management firm Atalanta Sosnoff Capital for as much as $83.3 million
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Florida State Board of Administration is conducting an asset/liability study, which may raise its international equity and alternatives allocations
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The German financial regulator has introduced stricter short selling disclosure rules for 10 financial sector companies
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Henderson Global Investors has won a $452 million bond mandate
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Economic uncertainty and high commodity prices will make the investment environment in China in 2010 more difficult than last year
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Most mutual fund investors did not abandon stocks during the market decline of 2008-09, according to Vanguard
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Luxembourg has suffered a set back in its efforts to develop its status as a domicile for the EU’s Ucits-compliant funds
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The Oklahoma Firefighters Pension and Retirement System is seeking a firm to offer master trustee, master custodian and securities lending services
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Aladdin Credit Partners has raised $573 million for its initial credit opportunities funds
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Baring Asset Management (Barings), the international investment management firm, has announced that five of its core offshore funds are now available on Cofunds.
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BATS Global has unveiled an equity options platform to expand its business
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Black’s Link Capital will launch an Asia hedge fund to trade securities affected by events, such as mergers
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Institutional investors embrace tax-transparent vehicles to facilitate economies of scale, efficiency and improved performance
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EFG-Hermes is planning to float a private equity fund in Syria
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F&C is combining two of its core capabilities - emerging market equities and sustainable investment – by launching a new strategy that will give investors access to the growth potential of emerging economies.
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Merchant Capital has launched its first European long/short equity fund
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Cardano today announced its appointment by the Trustees of the £5bn E.ON UK Pension Scheme.
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Qatar Holding is to launch an investment vehicle in Indonesia with start-up capital of $1 billion
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Fund managers in the UK growth sector believe that global corporates will take advantage of the weak pound to fund acquisitions in 2010.
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The AIMA has issued a statetemnt on short selling.
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BlackRock has sealed a £200million Ariona mandate.
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Up to seven Chinese brokerages will get licences for margin trading and short selling in China
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Hedge Funds suffered a slump in January according to a report released by Morningstar.
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The financial regulator of Hong Kong has launched a new short selling disclosure regime
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HSBC has announced a new head of equity capital markets who will begin next month.
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Scottish Widows Investment Partnership has been given $31.6 billion worth of Insight assets to manage
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Link Up Markets has included the Egyptian CSD as the tenth member in its project
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Fund services provider, Maples Finance, has extended its European service offering in Luxembourg
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The New York State Common Retirement Fund has terminated three equity managers, accounting for a total of $864 million
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Global Investor/isf brings you all the top news from the 7th annual PASLA conference in Hong Kong.
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The 7th annual PASLA/RMA conference on Asian securities lending got underway today. Global Investor/isf is there and brings you the best of it.
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Global Investor/isf brings you all the top news from the 7th annual PASLA conference in Hong Kong.
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Global Investor/isf brings you all the top news from the 7th annual PASLA conference in Hong Kong.
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Toscafund will roll out a Ucits III version of its mid-cap fund
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BBH has assigned two key staff to its Hong Kong office.
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Geneva-based Bedrock Group has hired Citco Fund Services as administrator and custodian on its multi-strategy fund-of-hedge funds
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2010 could prove to be a watershed year for the post-trade industry in Europe, with repercussions that may be felt throughout the world
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Credit Suisse today named a new director and head of Investment Solutions for Southeast Asia and Australasia for its Private Banking division.
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Private equity firm Duke Street Capital is looking to raise about $1.4 billion for its seventh fund
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Franklin Templeton Real Estate Advisors has launched the Franklin Templeton Asian Real Estate Fund 2
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The Illinois Teachers' Retirement System has ended its contract with BlackRock.
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Abu Dhabi firm Invest AD is seeking $325 million from third party investors for a buyout fund.
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J.P. Morgan is to launch an investment trust focusing on Brazil.
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LaSalle Investment Management has appointed Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz as Managing Director, Europe
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Nomura India has made a number of senior appointments
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State Street Global Advisors and BlackRock Institutional Trust have won two Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation mandates
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State Street has announced the opening of its new Irish headquarters in Dublin.
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Bank of China has opened a representative office in Dubai
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Citigroup’s private bank and China Resources Group have launched two real estate funds
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Citigroup has appointed Sanjiv Sawhney as global head of fund services for Citi’s Securities and Fund Services business
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Pension fund trustees are increasingly seeking to be good owners of the companies they invest in to promote their long-term value
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Stanley Fink, former chief executive of London-based Man Group, is to launch a computer-driven ‘black box’ fund
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Hennessee Group estimates that hedge fund industry assets increased by $751 billion in 2009 to $1.96 trillion
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The board of LCH.Clearnet Group has appointed Jacques Aigrain as non-executive chairman
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Investment funds bounced back to positive asset growth and net sales in the fourth quarter of 2009
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Buyout firms are poised to spend $9 billion in Brazil on everything from infrastructure to oil exploration
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Masraf Al Rayan has launched a Shari'a-compliant value fund to invest in GCC listed equities
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RBC Capital Markets has hired Raymond Schumertl, as a director of Global Macro FX Sales
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Sovereign wealth funds gradually regained their appetite for foreign investments in 2009
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February
AEGON Asset Management launches UK Equity Absolute Return Fund
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Alaska Permanent Fund, Juneau, is planning to terminate 12 of its 17 external small-cap equity managers.
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BNY Mellon’s Pershing unit has launched its multi asset class trading solution
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The head of the Arab Monetary Fund has urged the UAE to rejoin the Gulf monetary union
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NorthPoint gains access to ConvergEx's commission management technology.
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EFAMA and SWIFT have published a report on the evolution of standardization rates for funds processing in 2009
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An Och-Ziff Capital Management and Goldman Sachs veteran, Frank Yu, has founded a China-focused private equity firm
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The International Organization of Securities Commissions has asked hedge fund managers to provide general information on their business operations to regulators
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The consultancy, Kinetic Partners has openly welcomed the FSA's Hedge Fund Survey and Hedge Fund as a Counterparty Survey
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M&G Investments may unveil an Ucits III version of its multi-billion global macro strategy
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The US based, Managed Fund Association has responded to the new SEC short selling restrictions.
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The Malaysian unit of Manulife Asset Management has named Jason Chong chief investment officer
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Mexico’s pension funds will acquire a $200 million stake in a fund investing in private equity.
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SIX SIS, the Swiss cutodian, will be extending its settlement and custody services to cover the Brazilian market
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Sprint Nextel 401(k) Plan has selected Northern Trust’s Northern Trust Focus Funds as an investment option
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Sprint Nextel 401(k) Plan has selected Northern Trust’s Northern Trust Focus Funds as an investment option
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The Alternative Investment Management Association has welcomed the verdict by the UK's Financial Services Authority that hedge funds do not pose a systemic risk.
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Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) has announced the appointment of two new partners.
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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) is looking to reduce the buyout firms it invests in.
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Carlyle Group is teaming up with Fosun to launch a renminbi fund
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Citigroup is in negotiations to sell its $4 billion hedge fund business.
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European Multilateral Clearing Facility has welcomed the position of UK, Dutch and Swiss regulators in their joint Regulatory Position on Interoperability
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Neuberger Berman has sold its private funds placement business to Evercore Partners
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The mutual fund industry gathered $4.2 trillion in net cash flows worldwide in the second half of the decade
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Isle of Wight Council Pension Fund has awarded two mandates to Newton Investment Management and Majedie Asset Management
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Knight Clearing Services has deployed Fidelity ActionsXchange’s platform for corporate actions
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Close Fund Services has won a further mandate from M&G Investments
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The US based prime brokerage service provider, Merlin Securities has announced that Andy Lando has returned to the firm as a senior partner to head up a new business.
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Neuberger Berman has announced that William Arnold has been named chief financial officer, effective in early March.
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A recent report from Nomura suggests that Asia is witnessing a resurgence in its financial and political fortunes.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers has appointed Mohammad Khan as its new UK Islamic finance leader
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted a new rule to place certain restrictions on short selling
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Last year saw both the US and China supporting clean energy more than ever before. Due to this shift, the market is seeing clean energy firms growing and offering attractive value.
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BNY Mellon Asset Management has appointed a managing director for broker-dealer relations.
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Last year saw both the US and China supporting clean energy more than ever before. Due to this shift, the market is seeing clean energy firms growing and offering attractive value.
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Chi-X's operations head has left the exchange to pursue other interests
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Cielo has appointed Deutsche Bank as depositary bank for the sponsored Level I American Depositary Receipt (ADR) programme.
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Direct Access Partners is launching a new multi prime brokerage service
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Electronic trading systems are capturing a growing share of equity trading volume in Asia according to a new report
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Germany is planning to toughen short selling rules by introducing a system of transparency
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The Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKEx) has included a retailer to its list of securities eligible for short selling
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KBL European Private Bankers has chosen Calastone’s cross-border transaction network to transact its funds
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The Ohio School Employees’ Retirement System (SERS) has committed about $120 million to four new hedge funds.
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Dominick Falco is one of the founding fathers of the Pan Asia Securities Lending Association. He tells Global Investor/isf about the evolution he has witnessed in both Asia and the association.
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The Hong Kong market has been through crisis before and is well placed to come out of this global crisis stronger.
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India’s sheer vastness in terms of population alone means its potential cannot be ignored. With more than a billion people it’s no surprise that it’s a market the world has its eyes on.
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Singapore fund manager Aisling Analytics is to launch a $300 million equity hedge fund
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Amundi has marked a new stage in its international development strategy by listing 17 ETFs on Deutsche Börse
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BlackRock is planning to launch a credit hedge fund in Asia
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EuroCCP and Turquoise have expanded their clearing and trading services into Hungary and Czech Republic
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Euroclear UK & Ireland is reducing its trade netting fees
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HSBC Mutual Fund will roll out an open-ended fund of fund schemes in India
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Dan Smith has been appointed as post-trade manager by Nasdaq OMX Europe
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New Mexico Public Employees Retirement Association, Santa Fe, is to seek three active equity managers
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Australia was one of the last markets to lift the ban on short selling but has gained a reputation as a market that deserves attention
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The introduction of margin lending and stock index futures in China look likely to be launched this year
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Singapore has had to bend to new global best practice and implement rules that go against a policy that has successfully built a hedge fund industry on the island
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Asia hedge funds are back in business only to discover that the barriers to entry are now much higher
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Details of the next PASLA / Risk Management Association Securities Lending conference are now available
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Religare has bought a majority stake in private equity firm Northgate.
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Decision Analytics Advisory Partners has picked Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe as custodian for its new funds
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LCH.Clearnet and TriOptima announced that SwapClear members eliminated 31,280 EURO-denominated interest rate swap trades with a notional value of €3 trillion
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Al Rajhi Capital and Arcapita Bank have launched a $500 million fund
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The Scotia Capital Canadian Hedge Fund Performance Index outperformed global equities and broader hedge
fund indices both on an asset and equal weighted basis in January.
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Close International has appointed a managing director for its banking businesses in Guernsey and the Isle of Man
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CME Group has reshuffled its management team and boosted the team to run its developing index business.
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Socialists in the European Parliament are looking to restrict the amount of debt private equity firms can load on to companies in buyouts
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RBC Dexia Survey reveals fund competition to intensify over the next 12 months
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Hedge fund managers are taking action in a bid to reduce their risk exposure, a study of the industry has found.
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HSBC Securities Services has extended its mandate as global custodian for the West Yorkshire Pension Fund in the UK
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MLC, an Australian wealth manager, has ended its contract with two US fund managers, Bridgewater and BlackRock
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The Philippine Stock Exchange has laid out new guidelines for the securities, borrowing and lending programme
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will consider new short-sale restrictions on February.
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Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has been awarded a custody mandate.
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Standard Chartered takes custody and clearing services to the Middle East
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Hennessee Group recently conducted a study examining the correlation between the breadth of equity market moves and the performance of long/short equity hedge funds relative to traditional indices.
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Austria’s Financial Market Authority has extended a ban on naked short-selling of shares
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Spanish stock exchange, BME, is looking to launch its individual clearing operation
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The French finance minister is seeking tougher regulations for the sovereign credit default swaps (CDS) market
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HSBC Prime Services has named a new global head of client service and integration
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Mexican pension fund regulator, Consar, will ease investment rules
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Australian Securities Exchange adopts NASDAQ platform
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The Ohio Public Employees’ Retirement System (OPERS) is looking to expand the internally managed securities lending programme
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South Africa is planning to regulate domestic private equity funds
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The California teachers' fund will invest $100 million in a Bank of America Merrill Lynch private equity fund
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China Investment Corporation to commit $1.5 billion to the private equity secondary market through custom accounts
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FBR Capital Markets has chosen an Advent Software solution to boost its prime brokerage platform
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Michel Bois, managing director of CACEIS, has quit the global asset servicing provider
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Korea Securities Depository has agreed to link with Euroclear’s fund processing platform, FundSettle
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A Milwaukee retirement fund has awarded $180 million long/short equity hedge funds of funds mandates
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A US judge has dismissed a countersuit filed against BP North America’s savings and retirement plans
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RBC Capital Markets has hired a new Head of European Structured Interest Rate Sales
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Otkritie Financial Corporation has appointed Mikhail Belyaev as chief executive and Chairman of the Board
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Standard Chartered Private Bank plans to open offices in two new Indian cities this year, and to double the number of its relationship managers in the country
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ETF provider, iShares, has hired State Street as its custodian and administrator
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Citigroup has launched CitiDirect Performance and Risk Measurement Service
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BNY Mellon has been appointed as fiscal agent for Westpac $1.2 billion of Samurai bonds
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BNY Trust will buy the corporate trust assets of CIBC Mellon
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Carne Global Financial Services, has appointed Penry Jackson as Managing Director and Alison Magrath as Director of Compliance Services
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Fortress Investment Group has bought bond investor Logan Circle Partners
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Harvard University endowment is planning to sell a portion of its $5 billion real estate portfolio
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J.P. Morgan this week hosted an opening ceremony for its new office in Abu Dhabi.
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New York-based Karsch Capital Management will launch a distressed hedge fund in the next quarter
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Korea Investment Corporation is to boost its allocations to alternative investments
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The Massachusetts Pension Reserves Investment Management board is to invest $1 billion in real estate
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RBC Dexia Investor Services has won an account to provide custody, fund administration, shareholder services and performance analytics.
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The Risk Management Association has named a new director of securities lending and market risk, effective today.
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Spain has recommended the proposed rules to regulate hedge funds and private equity groups should be toughened
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UniCredit has hired to its New York equity finance desk
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The hedge fund industry has been through a transformational crisis and has come out with improved business and operational models
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AIMA is concerned that a protectionist measure within the AIFM directive has been re-instated
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Amati Global Investors today announced the appointment of a director to manage fund raising activity for the Noble AIM VCT.
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Chris Barrow has returned to HSBC working on its new prime services offering
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A Bulgarian custodian bank has inked a deal with the National Depository for Securities in Poland
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Citi has responded to the new ‘Give Up’ regulation initiated by the Turkish Derivatives Exchange
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Michael Dell’s private investment firm is launching a new $500 million fund
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A former Citigroup energy trader, has launched hedge fund firm
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Citigroup has launched CitiDirect Performance and Risk Measurement Service (PRISM).
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The hedge fund industry has been through a transformational crisis and has come out with improved business and operational models
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KTOs Capital Partners is looking to invest in new Asian hedge funds
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Dark pools operator, Liquidnet, is looking to offer Polish equities
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New Mexico Public Employees’ Retirement Association will seek active mid-cap value and growth managers
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Nordea Bank have upgraded its securities lending solution
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Northern Trust has been selected to provide investment operations outsourcing services for a London-based investment management start-up
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Prime Rate Capital is looking to raise $250 million for an Islamic cash fund
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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services has assigned ratings to two Global GCC Funds.
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A US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs has heard that the Federal Reserve (Fed) should be given more powers to regulate banks.
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Central Bank interventions improve Nigerian banking system stability, but risks remain high
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Knight Clearing Services, a subsidiary of Knight Capital Group, has implemented SunGard’s Loanet securities finance solution.
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Bank of Ireland Securities Services and Citi confirm custody partnership
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BNY Mellon wins EUR1 billion custody mandate
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CME Group and BM&FBOVESPA will create a new multi-asset class electronic trading platform
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The Chinese securities regulator has selected a host of companies as target stocks for a trial operation of margin trading and short selling
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Brazilian clearinghouse Cetip and Clearstream team up
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European regulators back interoperability
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The co-head of the investment management unit at Goldman Sachs, is retiring at the end of the month
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Activist hedge fund, Laxey Partners, is planning to target investment trusts
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Liquidnet is planning to offer new dark pools in Asia
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Global Investor/isf's Middle East Masterclass gives a market outlook
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Schroders’ emerging markets team believes that despite delivering strong returns in 2009.
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Avenue Capital Group is launching a new fund to invest in distressed debt
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BlackRock has set up a global agriculture fund
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A former Goldman Sachs trader is looking to launch a new hedge fund firm
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Global Investor/isf gathers the leading custody providers in the region together for a frank discussion
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Northern Trust has won a global custody and investment accounting services mandate
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Orchard Capital Partners has rolled out a new long/short fund
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State Street has won a mandate to service eight new exchange-traded funds.
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Wermuth Asset Management is looking to raise $500 million by launching three Russian funds