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Independent research boutique launches in the UK
A Paris-based independent equity research boutique is planning ... AlphaValue, which was founded in 2007 by Pierre ... Last week Autonomous Research, an independent research boutique ... AlphaValue said it hopes to “revolutionise the equity ... Gabriel D’Assignies, head of institutional sales of AlphaValue,...
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Record UK inflows drive European funds sector
The largest amount of money flowing into UK ... Figures from data monitor Lipper FMI showed UK ... Allocations to equities increased, as did commitments to ... These inflows made up more than half the ... Investors ploughed €7bn into equity funds in Europe ... Exchange-traded funds were hit by outflows of €1.2bn...
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Hedge funds suffer management fee blues
Less than a fifth of all hedge funds ... Only 13% of funds set-up this year have ... This is a large drop on the figure ... The average fixed management fee being charged by ... The research, published by Morgan Stanley on Friday, ... This fact supported a finding last month, made...
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Cross-border M&A plummets 80% in Europe
European bankers heartened by signs of a return ... According to data provider Dealogic, European outbound M&A ... This compares to a decline of 41% for ... The drop off in overseas M&A, particularly of ... UK pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline’s $3.6bn bid for US...
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Private clients subscribe to Man Group
Wealthy individuals have been sending in cheques to ... In an update on Man Group's performance and ... Currency fluctuations and an overall loss on its ... The company now manages $43bn, compared to $46.8bn ... Institutional investors have continued pulling money from the...
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Comment: Will regulators go the way of Mr Orange?
Putting aside its violence, Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 film ... Mr White is a criminal who doesn’t hesitate ... Mr Orange, an undercover police officer, spends most ... Mr Pink tells everyone to be true to ... Mr Blonde is a psychopath who infuriates Messrs ... Fast forward to 2009, and politicians across the...
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Ex-UBS banker founds cleantech boutique
A former co-head of investment banking at UBS, ... Jeff McDermott has founded Greentech Capital Advisors, which ... McDermott left UBS in March 2007 after six ... In that year he predicted UBS would top ... After leaving UBS, McDermott co-founded distressed investor Stony...
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European junk bond market tested by jumbo sale
The European high-yield bond market is undergoing its ... Wind’s planned €2.7bn ($3.8bn) sale of eight-year bonds, ... Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Italy’s Banca IMI ... The bonds could yield 12%, according to Scott ... The European high-yield bond market was re-opened by...
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'Great Depression' markets force Cantillon to close funds
London-based Cantillon Capital Management has shut its two ... Cantillon is shutting its European and global short/long ... The decision will leave the firm with $1.1bn ... Cantillon recently hired Suzie Proctor from peer Lazard ... A source close to Cantillon said its managers...
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Broker snatches UBS credit team for European push
The UK subsidiary of a US electronic broker ... In a statement, Knight Libertas, part of US ... Robertson has been joined at Knight Libertas in ... The other four hires are Tom Goodale from ... All of Libertas' new hires under Robertson are ... Gary Katcher, executive vice-president, head of global institutional...
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London duo plan new hedge fund products
Two of London's most discreet, yet largest hedge ... Brevan Howard Asset Management, Europe's largest hedge fund, ... The two managers were among the more successful ... Their industry lost a record 19%, said analysts ... Capula has hired Angel Serrat as chief strategist,...
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Hedge fund body conscripts members in battle against EU directive
The trade body for hedge funds has asked ... The Alternative Investment Management Association has criticised an ... Under the draft, EU-based managers running more than ... Escalating its battle against the directive, Aima yesterday ... The body said: "We would like to know...
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Investors stay cautious on hedge funds
The number of investors withdrawing their investments with ... Morgan Stanley has published a report called 'Wholesale ... If the US bank’s estimate is correct, this ... Huw van Steenis, head of European banks and ... He said: "We see a material slowing in ... Van Steenis added that a "dramatic" deceleration of...
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Bond market rally will 'reverse' this year
Investor exuberance in the European corporate bond market, ... Société Générale’s chief European credit strategist, Suki Mann, ... He said that not only has there been ... Such has been the level of investor demand ... ... However, debt capital markets bankers are warning that...
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US boutique prime broker hires from UBS
Boutique US prime broker Conifer Securities has continued ... Joseph Young, a former managing director of prime ... The past eight months have brought immense flux ... In this turmoil, hedge funds sought out new, ... Boutiques have benefited both from funds adding brokers,...
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Hedge fund industry sceptical about fraud office plans
Hedge fund practitioners have expressed concerns over plans ... The SFO has said this week that it ... A spokesman also told Financial News the organisation ... The news follows the SFO aresting two men ... Jacob Schmidt, founder of London hedge fund consultants ... The hedge fund industry was also rocked this...
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Listed private equity stocks rally 47% in two months
Listed private equity stocks have rallied three times ... The LPX UK index, which tracks listed private ... Both listed private equity indices bottomed out on ... Cazenove analyst Christopher Brown said in a report, ... “The markets appear to be pricing in a ... However, Brown warned net asset values – the...
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Gradient hedge fund begins climb back upwards
Gradient Capital, the London hedge fund whose founders ... John Gunn, Gradient's chief operating officer, said Gradient ... Gradient's rise this year outstrips the 4.1% from ... "We have 90 trading months and two of ... "We took a kick like a lot of ... "For a number of years the sea we...
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Top-performing convertible funds face 'bumpy' road
Investors in the best-performing hedge fund strategy of ... Convertible bond arbitrage lost 24.5% as a strategy ... During the first quarter of this year the ... However, Credit Suisse/ Tremont warns: "Convertible arbitrage...could be ... Convertible arbitrage hedge fund managers have been taking...
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Credit market momentum sparks new 'disconnect'
The bullish market momentum in the credit markets, ... Since the start of the year, almost all ... The performance of bonds in the secondary market ... But in a report from JP Morgan, its ... It said that the performance of new bond ... JP Morgan pointed out that average spreads, as...
