COMPANY & INDUSTRY NEWS
News & Notices from Belmont Investments
In an effort to keep clients and industry participants informed on our growth and development, news items will be posted to this page on a regular basis.
| NEWS | |
| December 2024 | Thomas Ryan joins ownership team |
| Employee share option scheme initiated | |
| September 2024 | Asian presence planned |
| Singapore office to be reopened within 18 months | |
| June 2024 | South African entity incorporated |
| Belmont Global Investments Pty Ltd registers with FSCA | |
| April 2024 | Distribution efforts ramped up in UAE |
| Initial application made to SCA | |
| December 2023 | Head of Distribution appointed for Southern Africa |
| Haydn Warmback joins from Tradition Securities | |
| August 2023 | Qualified Investment Hedge Fund (QIHF) launches |
| ZAR-denominated fund receives approval for distribution | |
| May 2023 | Section 65 approval received |
| Mauritius-domiciled vehicle receives FSCA green light | |
| November 2022 | Thomas Ryan promoted to Head of Research |
| Promotion comes after successful initial period with the firm | |
| September 2022 | Change in services providers |
| Migration to new fund administrator and fund custodian completed | |
| June 2022 | Launch of Belmont Quantitative Strategies Fund |
| Fund will focus on algorithmic and systematic investment strategies | |
| November 2021 | Plans for South African QIHF to resume |
| FSCA-approved fund slated in partnership with Prime Asset Management | |
| August 2021 | Final Millennium capital call issued |
| Remaining 30% of capital commitment to be called for October 1st | |
| March 2021 | Belmont Multi-Strategy Fund capacity update |
| Agreement with Millennium Management LLC provides capacity opportunity | |
| November 2020 | Changes to two managed futures funds |
| Adjustment designed to optimally utilise unused margin | |
| August 2020 | Belmont Long Short Alpha Fund capacity update |
| Strong performance leads to increased demand for Point 72 capacity | |
| August 2019 | Belmont Commodity Trend manager change |
| Quantica Capital appointed to assume mandate | |
| February 2019 | Martin Soong interviews Jeremy O’Friel |
| View the recent interview of Jeremy O’Friel, Managing Director of Belmont Investments, with Martin Soong of CNBC Asia in Singapore. | |
| October 2018 | Belmont Multi Strategy Fund change of policy |
| Fund to migrate to first multi-manager offering | |
| July 2018 | Further capacity for Belmont Long Short Alpha Fund |
| Limited amount to be made available to eligible investors | |
| March 2018 | CNBC Asia interview with Jeremy O’Friel |
| View the recent interview of Jeremy O’Friel, Managing Director of Belmont Investments, with Dan Murphy of CNBC in Singapore. | |
| February 2018 | Jeremy O’Friel makes presentation to CFA Society of Mauritius |
| Discussion presented in relation to the impact of rising interest rates on the global investment landscape | |
| January 2018 | Change made to Belmont Long Short Alpha Fund |
| Ivory Investment Management replaced by Point 72 Asset Management | |
| December 2017 | Final FSB submission made |
| Prime Belmont Multi-Strategy Fund to launch early in 2018 | |
| May 2017 | Belmont Global Equity Fund to launch |
| GMT Capital to act as underlying investment manager in new equity long-short exposure | |
| April 2017 | FSB registration nears completion |
| Partnership with Prime Asset Management to enable first in a series of registrations | |
| March 2017 | CNBC Asia interview in Hong Kong with Bernie Lo |
| Jeremy O’Friel, MD of Belmont Investments, says it remains unclear where the 4 percent growth President Trump talks about will come from. | |
| October 2016 | Partnership with Altegris to end |
| 7-year relationship comes to a close | |
| September 2016 | Launch of Belmont Multi-Strategy Fund |
| A successor to Altegris Millennium Fund, The Clinton Group appointed as investment advisor. | |
| April 2016 | Eckhardt awarded Pinnacle Achievement Award |
| Joins previous winners David Harding and Cliff Asness in receiving award from CME Group and BarclayHedge for overall contribution to managed futures. | |
| January 2016 | Belmont to register funds in South Africa |
| Move facilitated by recent FSB legislation | |
| December 2015 | Launch of Belmont Corporate Event Fund |
| New fund to feed into Paulson International Fund | |
| September 2015 | Adjustment to Paulson exposure planned |
| New Belmont vehicle to allow access to older merger fund, existing Altegris vehicle to be wound down | |
| July 2015 | CNBC Asia interview in Hong Kong |
| Susan Li interviews Jeremy O’Friel on his thoughts about the recent Chinese government intervention in the local equity markets. The interview was conducted on July 15th. | |
| June 2015 | CNBC Asia interview in Singapore |
| Jeremy O’Friel’s recent interview with Sri Jegarajah in the CNBC studio at the SGX in Singapore. Jeremy discusses the Chinese equity market specifically, as well as Asian markets generally, and details some of the firm’s recent positions. | |
| January 2015 | CNBC Asia interview on Greece |
| Recent interview with Jeremy O’Friel on the Greek situation and other thoughts on current market conditions | |
| June 2014 | Susan Li interviews Jeremy O’Friel on Squawk Box (part one) Susan Li interviews Jeremy O’Friel on Squawk Box (part two) |
| View the two parts of Susan Li’s interview with Jeremy O’Friel, Managing Director of Belmont Investments. The interview was conducted on June 9th from CNBC Asia’s Hong Kong studio. | |
| May 2014 | Belmont Long Short Alpha Fund to invest with Ivory Investment Management |
| Los Angeles-based firm to deliver on fund mandate for equity long-short investment strategy | |
| April 2014 | Belmont Long Short Alpha Fund to re-open |
| Fund to appoint new investment manager and accept investments once more |
