(FINalternatives) Global hedge fund manager Man Group has named current head of sales Steve Desmyter as head of responsible investment and current equity investment team executive (and UNPRI Hedge Fund Advisory Committee chair) Jason Mitchell as sustainability strategist. To read […]

(HITC) Jefferies Group posted a 33% drop in quarterly bond-trading revenue, signaling weakness in a business that’s been a strength for Wall Street in the past year. Investment banking jumped on gains in debt underwriting. Bloomberg News reports that fixed-income […]

(Marketwatch) Fears of a eurozone breakup. Concerns over unrest in the Middle East. And an increasingly angry middle class frustrated by the sluggish pace of economic growth. For years the financial markets have been swayed by such geopolitical threats — […]

(Seeking Alpha) Is there a misprint in this headline? It was a little difficult for me to write this. But it is a provocative thought, and one that hit me head-on when I read the following quote: “Hedge fund activists […]

(Opalesque) As alternative investments become more mainstream, information about investment vehicles, underlying assets and other risk management data has become more important to investors, but best practices around transparency requirements are lagging behind the demand, according to a survey released […]

(Harvest) There’s fake news permeating the current market narrative: this bull market is over eight years old. For whatever reason, people are willing to regurgitate this inaccuracy over and over again until many market participants believe it’s true. Yes, there […]

(Harvest) The ideology can come from either side of the political spectrum, and it can have a big impact on policy, the macroeconomic landscape and—ultimately—how we invest today. The include economic insecurity, social insecurity and political ineffectiveness. Based on previous […]

(Reuters) Bruno Iksil, the former JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) trader at the center of the “London Whale” trading scandal, has accused the Wall Street bank’s Chief Executive James Dimon of laying the ground for the $6.2 billion loss. In […]

(Seeking Alpha) Sometimes you’ve got to look away from your usual hunting grounds to find bargains. Not many American investors will look closely at the London Stock Exchange (NYSE:LSE) and what’s listed there. In fact, many U.K. institutional investors don’t […]

(FINalternatives) The private equity fundraising market is seeing a strong trend towards vehicles raising more capital in shorter timeframes, according to new research from data provider Preqin, as the largest firms and most consistent performers enjoy the fastest and most […]

(Reuters) BlackRock the world’s biggest asset manager, made its first push into Europe’s “robo-advice” market on Tuesday after taking a stake in Anglo-German digital investment manager Scalable Capital. BlackRock, which manages $5.4 trillion (4.24 trillion pounds) across a range of […]