UBS's in house hedge fund Dillon Read Capital Management is to begin accepting investment from outside institutional investors. The Zurich based bank's chief financial officer Clive Standish confirmed the move this week, although he gave no details on the amount
Standard & Poor's has appointed Steven Harcourt to its European structured finance team the company announced Monday. Harcourt join Standard & Poor's from FT Interactive Data, and his appointment as senior structured finance evaluator, Standard & Poor's says, represents the
Standard & Poors announced that James West and Roderick Gonggrijp have both joined its European evaluations team. James West joins Standard & Poors as Senior Structured Finance Evaluator and Roderick Gonggrijp as Senior Corporate Evaluator. Previous to this, both James
IntercontinentalExchange has set a date of Friday, April 21, to list the newest electronically traded contracts at its regulated futures business unit, ICE Futures. The new cash settled markets include ICE New York Harbor Unleaded Gasoline Blendstock (RBOB) Futures and
Document generation technology provider, Thunderhead has teamed up with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) to provide OTC derivatives market participants with an off the shelf solution to simplify the process of generating trade confirmations and automating trade matching
F&C Asset Management hired Andrew Lake as director, high yield. Lake will join F&C from Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (MLIM) where he has been Director, Global High Yield and the principal portfolio manager running MLIM's European high yield portfolios. He
Xcitek, the corporate actions software firm, says that Joseph J. Arney has joined the company as Vice President responsible for supporting sales efforts in the recruitment and placement of securities professionals within financial institutions on a consulting basis. "We are
GL TRADE's turnover of €87.1m in the first half of 2005 marks an increase of 19.5% on the same period in 2004, and includes the contributions from Ubitrade and Davidge Data Systems, both acquired at the end of 2004. GL
With the majority of gains arriving during the last week of the month, Standard & Poor's reported today that the indicative S&P Hedge Fund Index rose 0.29% for the month of May. Standard & Poor's analysis shows that hedge fund
Ansbacher has recruited two people to its London based wealth management business. Andrew Jenkins has been appointed to support the Group's growing Middle Eastern operations following its acquisition by Qatar National Bank and the opening of its office in Dubai