Managers of Wealth Americas

Alternative Investment Management Wins Prestigious Award

This award is a direct result of the hard work of our team

Paulson Starts Climate-Change Program to Fund Research

Cleaning up China’s air also will benefit Americans because airborne pollutants ride the jet stream to the U.S.

InstarAGF Expands Alternatives Investment Platform

The Fund was oversubscribed with equity commitments of approximately $210 million.

AMP Capital invests in portfolio of renewable assets across Canada and the United States

AMP Capital's Infrastructure Debt Fund II has arranged and structured a C$110 million subordinated loan for Alterra Power Corporation, a leading global renewable energy company headquartered in British Columbia.

Manulife to buy Standard Life's Canadian assets for US$3.7b

The Toronto-based insurer, already Canada's largest, said the transaction will boost earnings after the first year and more than double its presence in the largely French-speaking Canadian province, where it has long been under-represented.

Andrew Madoff, Convicted Conman’s Last Surviving Son, Dies at 48

He died yesterday at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York after battling mantle cell lymphoma, his attorney, Martin Flumenbaum, said in an e-mailed statement.

The State Department Welcomes the Royal Bank of Canada to the Global Equality Fund

Since its launch, the Fund has provided over $12 million in over 50 countries worldwide

US Expansion And Merger Of JLT Specialty And LPL

Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc to drive a new phase of growth through the significant expansion of its US specialty capabilities and merger of JLT Specialty and Lloyd & Partners

Gar Wood Securities and Axxcess to introduce emerging hedge fund managers to investors

The initiative allows Gar Wood Securities and Axxcess Wealth Management the ability to deliver wealth management solutions

GAM launches US mortgage-backed securities fund

The fund will invest in mortgage backed securities (MBS) assets

AllianceBernstein Continues Liquid Alts Push With New Fund

The AllianceBernstein Multi-Manager Alternative Strategies Fund is designed to generate long-term capital appreciation

US fund managers lose out to European rivals

European fund managers reclaimed territory from their US rivals in the first half of the year, taking three of the top five spots in the league table for net sales in Europe, according to Lipper data.

Alkhabeer Capital and USAA Real Estate Co. make acquisition of US real estate assets

Alkhabeer Capital together with its investment partner, USAA Real Estate Company have announced the acquisition of Lake Pointe Center III and IV

CalPERS seeks safer path but can’t eliminate investment risk

The nation’s largest public pension fund has reduced its holdings in hedge funds in recent months and is examining whether it should pare back its investments in commodities and possibly other asset classes.

Citigroup Facing Restrictions On Sales Of Hedge Fund Investments: WSJ

Citigroup said in the letter to hedge fund firms that it was working with the SEC to resolve the issue, the newspaper reported.

Financial services powerhouse Launches Its First ETF

JPGE tracks the FTSE Developed Diversified Factor Index

Fall of the Titans: The Story of African Bank and Lehman Brothers

In early August this year, African Bank, the banking arm of African Bank Investments Limited, received a 1.6 billion US dollar bailout by the South African Reserve Bank

US hedge funds hope to bridge European cultural divide

In Henry James’s late 19th century novel The American, a brash businessman travels to France in search of a wife only to leave defeated by the baffling social mores of the Parisian aristocracy.

How to run a $1 billion fund after both your co-founders go to jail

What do you do when two of your business partners—among the biggest names on Wall Street—are sent to prison for their involvement in the largest insider trading fiasco in decades, leaving you to manage $1.4 billion of investments in South Asia

Hedge Fund Assets Drop 0.49% - Flows Still Positive, But Slowing; Macro, Credit Fund See

The July 2014 eVestment Hedge Fund Asset Flows report shows some slowing in hedge fund asset growth and the impacts of outflows from several hedge fund sectors.

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