Deals and Transactions

Graham Stock (pictured), chief strategist at Insparo Asset Management comments on Bharti Airtel decision to sell a stake to Qatar investment group… »

Israel’s largest investment house, Psagot, has acquired Meitav’s ETF business, Meitav Index Linked Certificates, in a deal worth NIS150m. »

BlackRock is to acquire the exchange-traded funds business of Credit Suisse, further strengthening BlackRock’s position in Switzerland and its offering to Swiss investors. »

Hector McNeil (pictured), Co-CEO of BOOST ETP comments on the announcement that BlackRock is buying the Credit Suisse exchange traded funds (ETF) business… »

IFG Trust and Corporate Group has acquired Jersey-based Moore Group. »

eVestment, a provider of institutional investment data and cloud-based analytic solutions, has acquired PerTrac, a provider of hedge fund analysis software and workflow solutions, and Fundspire, a cloud-based technology provider of hedge fund analytics.  »

The Nasdaq OMX Group has agreed to acquire the index business of Mergent, including Indxis. »

Virtu Financial has acquired the European exchange-traded fund market maker assets of Nyenburgh.  »

Van Eck Associates has acquired a hedge fund beta business and team from Lyster Watson, and will be offering a suite of strategies called Trackers. »

Gencap Ventures has bought Factor Advisors, a provider of SEC 1933 Act listed exchange-traded funds.  »