Academy offers distribution course
Jessica Cairns, ex Barclays Global Investors, to lead course focused on distribution strategy for hedge and long-only funds
Osler moves to global client service role
Promotion reflects Maitland's aim of delivering highest-quality operational client service
Prescient adds hedge to admin platform
Hayden Reinders, ex-Maitland, builds hedge fund expertise, eyeing seamless service across the product range
Insparo targets broader frontier opportunity
Firm extends mandate of flagship fixed income fund to tap into new areas resulting from recent market dislocations
Weston takes legal expertise to Maitland
Ex-Norton Rose man specialises in investment funds and regulatory law
BlackRock discusses getting retail right
Needham shares views of global industry leader on the trend towards the retailisation of hedge funds
Laurium’s Africa expertise brings results
Comfortable as a traditional, bottom-up research house, the Laurium team still makes good use of their hedge fund mindset to play Africa's developing markets
Trofin Red marks strong first year
Long/short quantitative strategy adds 50% in first 12 months, while longer-running Trofin Blue gains 30% for the year
Tages favours frontier markets to add value
London-based Tages Capital sees opportunity in emerging and frontier markets after
end-2014 sell-off, but research and portfolio construction is key
SSCG’s Africa long/short play shapes up
Former SAC Capital Advisors man Rich Walter and his team believe in Africa's growth potential but inefficient markets make it an attractive long/short proposition