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Renewable Venture Captial
PERMANENT - London - City - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
Our client is a rapidly growing, specialist Venture Capital house, focused on high-return investments in Renewable Energy ventures globally. Recent investments include Solar, Wind, Biofuel, Electric Vehicles and Marine. The company adopts a flexible investment style, allowing each investment analyst to conduct independent research and initiate deals. They currently have in excess of $1bn AUM.
The role will involve:
- Researching a range of potential renewable energy investmen more >>
Renewable Energy Venture Capital.
PERMANENT - London - City - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
A rapidly growing, specialist Venture Capital house, focused on high-return investments in Renewable Energy ventures globally, seeks candidates at both associate and VP level. Recent investments include Solar, Wind, Biofuel, Electric Vehicles and Marine and they are aggressively expanding. The company adopts a flexible investment style, allowing each investment analyst to conduct independent research and initiate deals. You will be researching a range of potential renewable energy investments, a more >>
Real Estate Private Equity
PERMANENT - London - City - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
A major Real Estate Principle Investments fund is looking for an associate to join its London team. The group conducts real estate acquisitions throughout Europe, with a flexible and opportunistic approach. It is led by some very high-caliber industry players who have innovated in this field in the last few years. They are seeking someone from a Real Estate Principle Investments/ Private Equity team, or a Real Estate M&A team at a bulge bracket investment bank. You will have excellent financial more >>
Senior Fund of Funds Manager
PERMANENT - London - City - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
A leading multi-billion dollar AUM Fund of Hedge Funds are seeking a senior Multi-Manager investment professional to join their London offices. Suitable candidates will have a substantial track record of conducting fund of fund investments across a variety of strategies. You will have a background either in portfolio management (with above-index performance) or as a multi-strategy fund of funds analyst. You will have a thorough knowledge of European and ideally, Global hedge fund managers, and t more >>
Event driven analyst.
PERMANENT - London - City - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
Top tier US Hedge fund with in excess of 5 billion AUM is looking for exceptional event driven analysts. You will join a 4 man team currently working on an event driven portfolio of in excess of 500 million AUM. You will be learning and working directly alongside the senior fund manager who has in excess of 10 years experience in the event driven/special situations space. Ideal candidates will be at the associate level within an investment bank doing M&A / Leverage finance or as a junior eve more >>
Equity Fund of Fund analyst.
PERMANENT - London - City - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
European fund of fund with in excess of 12 billion AUM are looking for strong multi manager / single manager candidates for their 5 billion AUM European equity fund of fund portfolio. You will come on board as the senior analyst for their newly established London office where you will monitor the existing portfolio and be in charge of finding new investments opportunities in London. You will take a seat on the investment committee and be given a lot of responsibility from day 1. You will n more >>
Emerging markets senior analyst
PERMANENT - London - City - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
Top tier US hedge fund with in excess of 15 billion AUM is looking for exceptional candidates with a strong credit emerging markets background to work with their top performing credit emerging markets desk. The high yield credit desk has in excess of $7 billion AUM and they are looking to expand rapidly to seize of the vast potential in EM. For this desk based credit role you will be working directly alongside the senior portfolio manager who has been consistently ranked by various hedge fund aw more >>
Family Office Accountant
PERMANENT - London - City - £60000.00 to £80000.00 - benefits
- Large European Hedge Fund business
- Work directly for a successful hedge fund partner
- Hands on role which you can develop and make your own.
Opportunity to work directly for the partner of a more >>
Quantitative Analyst / Portfolio Manager Fund of Fund Hedge Fu
PERMANENT - London - City - £75000.00 to £85000.00 - Bonus Benefits
- Quantitative Analyst to move into a Portfolio Manager role
- Heavily involved in Asset Allocation Decision Making
- Excellent Opportunity to manage your own portfolio
Our client is a Fund of more >>
Hedge Fund Financial Controller
PERMANENT - London - City - £60000.00 to £85000.00 - excellent benefits up to 100% bonus
- Financial reporting role in a fast growing, high profile Hedge Fund Manager
- Exposure to fixed income and equities products from day one
- Excellent remuneration package and high bonus scheme more >>
Data Analyst - London
PERMANENT - London - City - £25000.00 to £50000.00 - N/A
A professional, experienced candidate is required for data analysis within an eminent provider of a wide range of business critical operational and business information services to hedge funds, fund o more >>
Compliance Office
PERMANENT - London - City - £50000.00 to £60000.00 - N/A
The Company
Large Brokerage (equities and / or prime brokerage trading )
The Role
The Role The primary responsibilities are to provide an: advisory service to business maintain regulatory and more >>
Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals fund manager.
PERMANENT - London - City - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
Multi Billion US hedge fund is looking to build its London office. They have a very successful track record in US healthcare and are now looking to expand into European healthcare equities. You will join a highly successful 6 man investment team working on healthcare as the senior European health care fund manager reporting directly with the CIO making recommendations on the Healthcare sector. Ideal candidates will have a successful track record as a buy side healthcare analyst or as a fund more >>
Equity Fund of Fund analyst.
PERMANENT - London - City - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
European fund of fund with in excess of 12 billion AUM are looking for strong multi manager / single manager candidates for their 5 billion AUM European equity fund of fund portfolio. You will come on board as the senior analyst for their newly established London office where you will monitor the existing portfolio and be in charge of finding new investments opportunities in London. You will take a seat on the investment committee and be given a lot of responsibility from day 1. You will need more >>
Event driven junior fund manager.
PERMANENT - Europe - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
Top performing Bermuda based hedge fund is seeking exceptional event driven analysts. You will join a 4 man team currently working on an event driven portfolio of in excess of 100 million AUM. You will be learning and working directly alongside the senior fund manager who has in excess of 10 years experience in the event driven/special situations space. Ideal candidates will have buy side experience preferably in event driven space / risk arb / merger arb / special situation equities. This is an more >>
Leveraged Finance for Hedge Fund
PERMANENT - London - City - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
A well-established hedge fund (in excess of $2bn AUM) is seeking top-drawer Leveraged Finance candidates to help grow its European business. The desk trades a combination of non-performing credit (including Distressed, High Yield and Mezzanine) and Special Situations Equity. It adopts an absolute return approach. They require candidates who are working at analyst/associate/VP level in a Leveraged Finance team at a Tier 1 Investment Bank. Suitable candidates will have an in-depth grasp of fundame more >>
Systematic Investment Manager.
PERMANENT - California - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
An exceptional multi-strategy Asset Management house is seeking Systematic Manager to manage the quant-driven portfolios of US, European and Asian Equities. You will be the driving force behind the development and implementation of quantitative and fundamentally-oriented long/short investment strategies and manage the maintenance and development of portfolio risk, optimization and execution platform. The role has arisen from the groups continued success and expansion; the team is well establishe more >>
Index Arbitrage : Spin - off Systematic Hedge
PERMANENT - New York - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
An Internal Hedge Fund operating out of a US Bank across New York, London and Asia is due to announce its complete spin-off and re-branding next quarter. The group will take a market leading position within the Systematic, Statistical Arbitrage and Index Arbitrage space with significant seed capital from the investment bank and external investors, with additional capital queuing at the door. The group will be spinning off into a fully fledged and have the commitment and vision to become a leadin more >>
Statistical Arbitrage : Systematic Hedge Fund
PERMANENT - New York - £500000.00 to £500001.00 per year - Highly Competitive
An Internal Hedge Fund operating out of a US Bank is poised to take a market leading position within the Systematic, Statistical Arbitrage and Index Arbitrage space as it combines all quantitative trading efforts across equities, equity index, fixed income bonds, interest rates, commodities and futures.
The pooling of resources into a small, dedicated and collaborative team will create a formidable force in the market place and represents a fantastic opportunity for talented quants to w more >>
HEDGE FUND ACCOUNTANT
TEMPORARY - London - West End - £30.00 to £40.00 - N/A
A premier London based Hedge Fund has a position available for A fund accountant to join their team in an ongoing role. They specialise in fixed income fund strategies for high net worth individuals a more >>
News & Press
Jefferies Putnam Lovell on YTD M&A Activity
Led by hedge funds, alternative investment firms represent 40% of YTD M&A activity in 2008, according to Jefferies Putnam Lovell.
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Riskdata FOFiX Active Enables Investors to Search Smartly in Hedge Fund Databases for Funds with Specific Risk Characteristics
Four partnerships with leading database vendors announced. more >>
Baring Asset Management Launches the Asia Strategic Fund
Baring Asset Management, the international investment management firm, is pleased to announce the launch of a new addition to its range of single strategy hedge funds, the Baring Asia Strategic Fund, subject to regulatory approval.
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Hedge Fund Working Group Publishes its Final Report Outlining a Code of Conduct for Hedge Funds
Last week, the Hedge Fund Working Group published its final report outlining a code of conduct for hedge funds. Below are quotes from Brad Ziff, a member of the HFWG, and director of the hedge funds advisory practice at management consultancy Oliver Wyman.
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Jefferies Announces Formation of Structured Equity Group
Team to Focus on Alternative Equity Investments.
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Best Selling Alternative Investments Books
Commodities and Commodity Derivatives by Helyette Geman
Category: Private Equity
The last few years have been a watershed for the commodities, cash and derivatives industry. New regulations and products have led to an explosion in the commodities markets, creating a new asset class for investors that includes hedge funds as well as University endowments, and has resulted in a spectacular growth in spot and derivative trading. This book covers hard and soft commodities (energy, agriculture and metals) and analyses: - Economic and geopolitical issues in commodities markets - Commodity price and volume risk - Stochastic modelling of commodity spot prices and forwa.....
The Aim Guide: 2007/2008 by
Category: Alternative Investing
The AIM Guide is the only fully comprehensive guide to AIM and is regarded as a 'must-have' for any serious investor or professional interested in this market for young, fast-growing companies. Presented by the award-winning team behind Growth Company Investor, in association with Baker Tilly, the latest guide contains detailed entries for all 1688 AIM companies, including 110 new entries. The guide features: - Key financial data - Companies contact details - Directors' shareholdings - Major shareholdings - Contact details for professional advisers Inside you will find a uniqu.....
Taming the Lion by Richard Farleigh
Category: Hedge Funds
Richard Farleigh reveals the 100 secret strategies that he developed to enable him to succeed in the markets. During his time running a trading desk, Farleigh set out to develop a repeatable methodology based on observation and reasoning, not just on one-off flukes and luck, to enable him to outperform the market on a regular basis. The (potentially controversial) beliefs that he incorporates into his strategies include: - Markets tend to under-react, not overreact. - Big, obvious ideas offer great opportunities. - It is safe to invest with a consensus view. - Contrarian trading is.....
Simple But Not Easy by Richard Oldfield
Category: Stockmarkets
Described by the author as "a slightly autobiographical and heavily biased book about investing", Simple But Not Easy has plenty of interest to the experienced professional, and is aimed also at the interested amateur investor. The theme of the book is that investment is simpler than non-professionals think it is in that the rudiments can be expressed in ordinary English, and picked up by anybody. It is not a science. But investment is also difficult. People on the outside tend to think that anyone on the inside should be able to do better than the market indices. This is not so. Picking .....
Private Equity as an Asset Class by Guy Fraser-Sampson
Category: Private Equity
This is the ins and outs of operating a private equity fund investment program. "Private Equity as an Asset Class" provides a full explanation of all types of private equity activity, how returns should be viewed, and how each sub-asset class should be modeled and evaluated. The book offers basic instruction for beginners who understand investing but have no prior knowledge of private equity. It offers specific practical advice on modeling and evaluating venture funds and includes a full analysis of the proper examination of detailed specifics and a chapter dedicated to due diligence. Fund exe.....
Absolute Returns by Alexander M. Ineichen
Category: Alternative Investing
Hedge fund expert Alexander Ineichen outlines strategies that hedge fund managers use to achieve superior investment performance, particularly in bear markets, when traditional investment strategies do not perform so well, and shows readers how hedge funds might be added to traditional investment portfolios to achieve superior returns. Nontechnical yet sophisticated, Absolute Returns shows investors how to make educated decisions about hedge fund investment--thoroughly explaining the risks as well as the rewards......
Hedge Hunters by Katherine Burton
Category: Hedge Funds
The hedge fund industry's top managers have a penchant for high returns and low profiles. The combination makes them a regular focus of the media, eager to know what makes them tick. Now, thanks to Katherine Burton, who's been covering these noteworthy traders for Bloomberg News for more than a decade, we know considerably more about them. With candour and detail, the industry's most successful hedge fund managers describe the events that shaped their personal journeys, the strategies they use to produce returns even in uncooperative markets, and the attributes that make a smart investor. 'Hed.....
The UK Stock Market Almanac 2008 by Stephen Eckett
Category: Stockmarkets
The Almanac is a unique reference work and provides you with the data to tackle the markets in the year ahead. The main section consists of a 52-week diary, supplemented with articles, facts, figures and trivia unique to the Almanac. This is an extremely valuable and massively informative companion to the financial year making the Almanac the one essential book for the serious trader or investor. Essentially three books in one, the Almanac consists of: 1. 2008 Financial diary - A 52-week, one week per page, diary Each page of the diary includes key financial dates including: impor.....
Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Practitioner's Manual by Graham Spooner
Category: Private Equity
This book provides you with a straightforward, practical approach to seeking venture capital or private equity. The book is structured to follow closely the format of a venture capital deal. Also included are a number of case studies based on: e-commerce, pre-IPO, MBO and MBI and institutional buy-outs/leveraged buy-outs......
Investing in Hedge Funds by Joseph G. Nicholas
Category: Alternative Investing
Hedge funds are in the news and on the minds of sophisticated investors more than ever. An estimated $1 trillion in assets is now invested in 7,900 hedge funds, up from an estimated $450 billion in 3,600 funds in 1999. As the number of investors has expanded, so have questions about how the funds are structured, where the assets are allocated, and whether hedge funds can truly act as a hedge against market risk. The answers are all here in Investing in Hedge Funds. Until recently, much of what makes hedge funds tick has been closely guardedÂthe intellectual property of Wall StreetÂs inv.....
Hedgehogging by Barton Biggs
Category: Hedge Funds
An engaging look at the investment and hedge fund world, through the eyes of an industry legend Barton Biggs is one of the most well-respected figures in the investment management community. He has prospered during both bull and bear markets, and has adapted to an investment landscape that has been transformed by technology and globalization. His legendary money management skills helped set the benchmark for investment management excellence. Now, for the first time, Biggs shares his experiences in the world of hedge funds and investments. Through an interwoven series of entertaining and .....
Big Money, Little Effort by Mark Shipman
Category: Stockmarkets
From the best-selling author of 'The Next Big Investment Boom', this book provides everything you need to know about making the world's money markets work to your advantage, enabling you to turn basic investments into a winning portfolio. 'Big Money, Little Effort' shows you how a straightforward, manageable and stress-free investment system, if properly applied and monitored, can protect you from the volatility of the world's stock markets while ensuring consistent returns on your original investment. In an industry awash with different (and often very vocal) opinions, the author removes the.....
Market Neutral Investing by Joseph G. Nicholas
Category: Alternative Investing
Achieving ideal returns by diversifying away risk. Managing risk is a weightier issue than ever for professional investors. They're seeking downside protection as they grapple to remain fully invested in a hyper - inflated stock market. Market-neutral investing is one of the hottest strategies for achieving such protection. In this groundbreaking book, industry expert Joseph G. Nicholas opens investors up to new thinking on highly effective approaches to return enhancement and risk reduction through investment diversification. Nicholas shows how market-neutral investing techniques hedge exp.....
Inside the House of Money by Steven Drobny
Category: Hedge Funds
Inside the House of Money lifts the veil on the typically opaque world of hedge funds offering a rare glimpse at how today's highest paid money managers approach their craft. Author Steve Drobny demystifies how these star traders make billions for their well-heeled investors, revealing their theories, strategies and approaches to markets. Whereas some still maintain that rationality permeates financial markets, Drobny captures a different dimension, showing how the unquantifiable human forces of emotion and intuition are also at play. Along the way, readers get an inside look at firsthand t.....
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
Category: Stockmarkets
The classic bestseller by Benjamin Graham, The Intelligent Investor has taught and inspired hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Since its original publication in 1949, Benjamin Graham's book has remained the most respected guide to investing, due to his timeless philosophy of "value investing", which helps protect investors against the areas of possible substantial error and teaches them to develop long-term strategies with which they will be comfortable down the road. Over the years, market developments have borne out the wisdom of Graham's basic policies, and in today's volatile m.....
Venture Capital Due Diligence by Justin Camp
Category: Private Equity
Venture Capital Due Diligence provides a clear and complete explanation of the venture capital (VC) due diligence process and shows you how to use it to assess investment opportunities, make smart investment decisions, and increase the return on your overall venture capital portfolio. This comprehensive guide offers a full explanation of the VC due diligence process, from using screening mechanisms that sort out potential opportunities, to assessing the management qualities, business models, legal issues, and even intangibles of target companies. Structured around a number of carefully craft.....
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