Managers
Cortus has closed a funding round led by financial partners Credit Agricole Entreprises and Banque Dupuy de Parseval and institutional partners OSEO and the Region of Languedoc-Roussillon.


Since starting in 2005, Cortus has completed the development of an extensive ecosystem for its APS3 core and achieved key design wins in a variety of rapidly growing market segments. The new funding secures the international expansion and development plans over the next three years allowing Cortus to scale their technical and business development activities. Cortus are now accelerating the recruitment of talented individuals for both engineering and sales roles.


Cortus’ 32 bit
Buried in the recent consultation paper on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) are stringent rules on pay that will have far reaching consequences for the asset management industry, say experts at PwC.
The rules, from the European Securities and Markets Authority, will affect alternative investment firms which escaped the FSA’s regulations on bank pay, including many private equity houses and hedge funds. They will also mean more onerous restrictions for those investment firms already caught by the FSA requirements, and could even hit some firms outside Europe.


The rules are in line with those introduced to other
PerTrac has launched new releases of its analytics solutions, PerTrac Analytics 7.2 and PowerLink 1.2. The powerful, new versions handle all data frequency types including daily data for investment analysis, strategy comparison and fund benchmarking.


In response to investors’ increased need to balance risk and liquidity, the investment industry, including alternatives, has been moving to funds that provide daily NAVs. This requires high frequency analysis to access value and liquidity.


“Investors and funds need to be able to analyse daily and weekly data quickly and comprehensively,” says Brendan Dolan (pictured), Co-President of PerTrac. “Our new release handles daily data and
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Tajinder Singh, Deputy Secretary General, International Organisation of Securities Commission, (IOSCO)
Diversification and Durable Portfolios Panel Session:
Anthony Hilton – Moderator
Jon Moulton, MD, Better Capital, LLP
Paul Wharton, Chief Investment Strategist, Deutsche Bank
Robert Parker, Senior Advisor, Credit Suisse
Repetition is Reputation
Helena Morrissey, CEO, Newton Investment Management
The Challenge of Change
Michael B Jackson, Corporate Marketing and Business Strategist
Risk Management
Dr James Chu, MD & Chief Investment Officer,
Apex Fund Services, a fund administration business, has opened its Luxembourg office.
Apex will begin providing administration services from Europe’s largest fund domicile.
The Luxembourg office opens with ten Ucits and regulated SIF Sicav funds.
In addition to offering services for all types of public and private Luxembourg funds, the Luxembourg office has also been appointed as fund administrator for three fund platforms. These are:
1. Luxembourg Fund Partners Platform for the re-domiciliation of offshore funds, alternative investment fund manager activities and the set-up of non-Ucits vehicles;
2. Amiri Shariah Equities Platform, a plug and play solution for establishing a Luxembourg Shariah
The Children’s Investment Fund Management, the hedge fund firm founded by Christopher Hohn, has emerged as the single largest seller of Indian stocks among foreign institutional investors.
Citadel Investment Group, whose two biggest funds fell by some 55 per cent in 2008, is ready to return to investors after starting the new year in sparkling form.
Peter Urbani, chief investment officer of fund of funds manager Infiniti Solutions, argues that even amid the market turmoil of 2008, newer and smaller hedge fund managers significantly ou
The former chief executive of Man Group, Stanley Fink, is reported to have bought an apartment with what is said to be the best view in London for GBP10m, a four-floor penthouse at the top
Crispin Odey, the high-profile hedge fund manager, has turned bullish on UK banks recently because he thinks their share prices are currently cheap.
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