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Apex Fund Services, the great global society of independent fund management , has opened an office in Luxembourg.

Apex will offer its global customers more and more administrative services from the largest financial center in Europe in terms of clearance of funds. The office opens with 10 Luxembourg collective investment in transferable securities ( UCIT ) and SIF- SICAV funds ( investment company with variable capital ) regulated .

In addition to its range of services covering all types of public and private funds in Luxembourg , Luxembourg, Apex has also been named fund manager for three platforms provide fast and economic methods for establishing funds Sicav in Luxembourg. They are:

Luxembourg Fund Platform Partners : redomiciliation funds for investment abroad, the management activities of non-traditional investment funds and the establishment of non - vehicles UCIT .

Amiri Shariah Equities Platform Solution: ready- to establish a fund economic Luxembourg compatible with Sharia law which allows for investment strategies " long only " or " long / short " .

Global Managers Platform (compatible UCIT ) : redomiciliation for foreign investments and non - UCIT management activities of investment funds and non-traditional vehicles passported non - UCIT .

For  years I have been insisting that the Israeli Hi-Tech revolution is not a trick of our eyes and is really happening. Now that the bandwagon had caught up and sees the Hi-Tech machine in Israel as the powerhouse it is, it worth taking a look at one of the companies making it happen from an investment point of view.

Alon Technology Ventures is revolutionary as it was created by Sonja Kohn of Bank Medici as a way of bringing foreign investment to  ambitious, technology-driven companies with potential to generate high returns. Kohn focused the company on investments in Israeli or Israeli related companies in the fields of Information Technology, High Technology, and Medical Devices and other Life Sciences. The success has been tremendous as many of the companies Alon Technology Ventures invests in have seen tremendous profits and growth.

This model of picking companies that show an aptitude for success should be repeated across the globe as it ensures a high percentage of success and return on investment.

Moore Capital Management led by Louis Bacon has expanded its investment team with some industry veterans. The names include Matthew Carpenter, Matthew Newton, and Jonathan Cheng. Matthew Carpenter, who led a proprietary equity trading group at Citigroup officially joined Moore Capital in June as Head of Equity Trading. Carpenter also served as a managing director in Citigroup’s US equity research division and prior to that he was a partner at Citigroup Private Equity. Matthew Newton also joins Moore Capital from Citigroup where he was a key member of Carpenter’s prop-trading team.

Jonathan Cheng now serves as a portfolio manager at Moore Capital focusing on consumer and retail sectors. Before joining Moore Capital he was a portfolio manager at Overland Park Capital and Richard Perry’s Perry Capital.

Former president of SAC Capital Partners, Brian Cohn is starting a new hedge fund firm called  Archeroak Capital Management. According to sources, Brian Cohn’s firm is set to employ several veterans of the hedge fund industry including Jeff Messina and Christina Kim. Messina is from Level Global Investors LP and Kim worked at Andor Capital Management LLC.

Cohn left SAC Capital in 2008 after 11 years with the firm. His new firm Archeroak Capital Management LP is headquartered in Greenwich, CT and will be focused on trading equities.