GBI selected to administer Royal Mint Online Bullion Service The Royal Mint has selected Gold Bullion International (GBI) to administer its new bullion trading website, it said in a release. Read more here.
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SEC’s Gallagher calls for markets review, frets about bond liquidity WASHINGTON — A commissioner at the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday said the stock market structure needs a thorough review and he stated concerns about the bond market. Read more here.
Tortoise in Financial Advisors
Mixed Forecast For MLPs Master limited partnerships — companies that provide pipelines and other infratructure for energy producers — have enjoyed good weather and smooth sailing in recent years. Read more here.
Quad in HFM
Quad Group boosts exec management team Quad Group has boosted its management team by hiring former COOs from Clinton Group and Banyan Capital. Read more here.
Quad in CNN Money
Tech trouble sparks wave of selling on Wall Street Apparently it’s not just iPhones that can bend. So can the will of bullish investors. Apple (AAPL, Tech30) and other technology stocks took a tumble on Thursday, driving the Nasdaq deeply into the red: almost down 2%. Read more here.
Franklin Square CEO on Jim Cramer's Mad Money
Michael Forman appears on CNBC’s Mad Money with Jim Cramer Michael Forman, Chairman and CEO of Franklin Square, appeared on CNBC’s Mad Money with Jim Cramer on Monday, September 15th. They discussed Franklin Square’s mission to provide investors access to best-in-class alternative asset managers and strategies historically available only to large institutional investors such as […]
Reuters gets Tortoise input
Tortoise Capital’s Robert Thummel says there’s still a lot more upside for master limited partnerships and pipeline companies. – Reuters Insider (registration required) http://insider.thomsonreuters.com/app.html?hmy=0#/clip/1291224/i0ec37y0
PS&S Announces Promotions
WARREN, NJ (September 22, 2014) – Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor (PS&S) today announced several promotions within the company’s senior management team: – Bruce Hawkins of Warren is now Senior Vice President of the firm’s Civil Engineering Department. Bruce has been with PS&S since 1980 and was one of the leaders on such high-profile projects as […]
Premier Alliance on Seeking Alpha
Premier Alliance (PIMO-1.03) Is An Emerging Cybersecurity Play Read more here
Tortoise in Investor’s Business Daily
Western Gas Equity MLP Plays Shale Oil And Gas Boom Master limited partnerships have sold off modestly in recent days on concerns that interest rates will rise soon. Read more here.
root9B Announces Senior Hires
root9B Names John Harbaugh Chief Operating Officer root9B, a Premier Alliance Company, Appoints Additional Senior NSA Experts to Support Adversarial Pursuit Operations (HUNT) NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — John Harbaugh, a former senior executive for the National Security Agency (NSA), has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of root9B, a subsidiary of Premier Alliance […]
DMS in Global Tax Weekly
FATCA’s Impact On Cayman Islands Securitizations And Cat Bonds by Lynden John and Peter Stafford, DMS Offshore Investment Services – Lynden John is an Associate Director of DMS Off-shore Investment Services. Based in the Cayman Islands, he oversees fund governance for a portfolio of hedge funds, structured finance vehicles and private equity clients.
root9B Executive Publishes Zero-Day Exploit Technique To Combat Telephone Scammers
Company’s Emerging Technologies Director releases technical details to thwart Internet criminals targeting and exploiting innocent victims Premier Alliance (OTCQB: PIMO) company continues combating hackers NEW YORK, NY (September 15, 2014) – root9B’s Director of Emerging Technologies, Matt Weeks, has released technical details on a zero-day exploit in a common software application used by Internet criminals […]
Quad in HFMWeek
Exclusive: Quad Advisors-backed GO Capital opens up GO Capital, a New York-based investment manager backed by Quad Advisors, is launching its hedge fund structure to outside investors following its April debut, HFMWeek has learned. Read more here.
Beazley on Bloomberg TV
Here’s How to Prevent a Data Breach: Katherine Keefe, head of Beazley Breach Response Services, discusses the recent rise in cyber attacks with Mark Crumpton on “Bottom Line.”
CMS in Bay Area News
Seabrook Resident Francis Dautreuil, who holds three industry related patents, has joined CMS Technology as Vice President of technical services, with a mandate to assist CMS food industry clients with reducing bacterial impact on processing. Read more here.
Beazley in the LA Times
Possible data breach at Home Depot highlights retailers’ vulnerability The possible data breach at Home Depot Inc. that came to light this week has raised anew the question of whether retailers can prevent — or at least do more to stop — hackers from swiping customer information. Read more here.
NFL Alumni in Business Week
How Football Players Can Stay Rich After Their NFL Careers On the first day of the NFL’s 2014-15 season, football pros already have something to do a cute little victory dance about. And I’m not talking about their selection on my fantasy team, “The Ladies II.” Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business is partnering with […]
Francis Dautreuil Joins CMS Technology
Leading company’s efforts to minimize or reduce bacterial impact on processing NEW YORK, Sept. 3, 2014 — Francis Dautreuil, who holds three industry related patents, has joined CMS Technology as Vice President of technical services, with a mandate to assist CMS food industry clients with reducing bacterial impact on processing. Read more here.
Tortoise Capital Advisors on Fox Business
Alternative energy investments: Capitalizing on MLPs – Tortoise Capital Advisors managing director Robert Thummel on investing in master limited partnerships.
Quad in FinAlternatives
Q&A: Quad Advisors’ Borish Is Looking For Real Traders, Not Index Huggers Peter Borish, who served as founding partner and director of research at Tudor Investment Corp., has become the chief strategist and trading coach at Quad Advisors, a New York-based hedge fund incubator and accelerator. The new venture is an offshoot of Quad Capital, […]
Franklin Square Q&A in Bloomberg Brief
Franklin Square Capital Partners listed its first BDC publicly in April, and it has three other private BDCs. Zachary Klehr, an executive vice president and a member of the executive committee, discussed the future of the funds with Bloomberg Brief’s David Holley.
Tortoise in Fundfire
Energy Boom, Income Demand Boost Interest in MLPs Managers with separately managed accounts (SMAs) and funds of master limited partnerships (MLPs) have been raking in high-net-worth assets, a trend that appears far from over. The U.S. oil and gas industry boom, coupled with the demand for income in a low interest rate environment, have boosted […]
STA in Tabb Forum
Good Luck, Chair White: Advisory Committees and Roundtables in the 21st Century Among SEC Chair Mary Jo White’s equity market structure agenda is a plan to create an advisory committee. While this can be an important vehicle for the regulator to gather industry input, Chair White faces some challenges in getting the committee off the […]
Tortoise Capital Advisors ringing the closing bell
Tortoise Capital Advisors Managing Director and Portfolio Manager Matthew Sallee and colleagues will visit the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and ring The Closing Bell® to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure Corp. (NYSE: TYG) and mark a decade of listing master limited partnership-focused funds on the NYSE. TYG, which began trading on […]
Tortoise on CNBC
Washington focusing on MLPs Discussing Kinder Morgan’s consolidation deal and the advantage of master limited partnerships, with Matthew Sallee, Tortoise Capital Advisors.
Franklin Square in Forbes
Franklin Square Capital Chats With LCD About BDCs, Record Leverage Levels S&P Capital IQ LCD recently chatted with Michael Gerber, managing director, and Zach Klehr, executive vice president, at alternative asset manager Franklin Square Capital Partners. Franklin Square manages four BDCs – one is publicly traded and three are non-listed. The four funds have an […]
DMS in Global Tax Weekly
AIFMD Compliance And Its Tax Implications For US Managers by Conor MacGuinness, Director of DMS Off shore Investment Services, Dublin office
Introduction
It has been a long time coming, but as of July 22, 2014, US alternative investment fund managers wishing to market their funds in Europe have to contend with a new set of regulations affecting everything from the fund set-up to marketing to reporting, under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Quad Advisors Debuts Hedge Fund Incubator and Accelerator
Quad Advisors Debuts Hedge Fund Incubator and Accelerator NEW YORK, Aug. 6, 2014 — Quad Advisors, a hedge fund incubator and accelerator, announced it has signed two growing hedge funds as its first resident firms. Quad Advisors is the newest initiative in a family of financial entities housed within the Quad family of companies. Read […]
Quad launches Quad Advisors
Prop-Trading Firm Offers to Back Managers – Proprietary-trading shop Quad Capital is starting a business that provides so-called acceleration capital and operational support to fledgling hedge fund managers.