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Outsourcing FATCA reporting function overcomes scalability issue for managers. “The reason firms should start early with FATCA is that until you have gone through the process of data mining and figuring out all the details on your investors, you really do not know the depth of the work that is required in order to be compliant,” asserts Michael Megaw (pictured), managing director at SS&C GlobeOp, one of the industry’s leading independent fund administrators. »

Conning, a provider of asset management services for the insurance industry, and Ramius Alternative Solutions LLC (RASL), which develops and manages customised alternative investment portfolios, have entered into a strategic alliance. »

Can Britain, like the US, successfully use the fracking technique to build energy reserves and cut costs? If so, what can be learned from the US? Eric Gordon, Energy Analyst at Brown Advisory, comments… »

 BNP Paribas Securities Services has launched its global Dealing Services solution in the UK – a new concept providing institutional investors access to a network of dealing teams using sophisticated dealing technology and covering all asset classes. »

Prospects are clouded for Cyprus as a domicile for investment and transaction structures set up by entrepreneurs and investors from Russia and other eastern European countries such as Ukraine following a levy on bank deposits and capital controls imposed by the government as part of a package of measures to stabilise the country’s banking sector, says Olivier Sciales, founding partner, Chevalier & Sciales… »

Joel Copp-Barton, European Equities Product Director at Invesco Perpetual, shares his views on Europe’s recovery… »

Long/short hedge funds are the top performing strategy in the first quarter of 2013, with cumulative net returns of 4.43 per cent, according to Preqin. »

The European Energy Exchange (EEX) will launch trading in Guarantees of Origin for Green Power on 6 June 2013. »

Sturgeon Ventures, the regulatory incubator, has launched the Clerkenwell Matterhorn Fund, an absolute return, open-ended long/short fund with a long bias. It will target a net total return of five to 15 per cent per annum by investing in real estate investment trusts and property development companies. »

The Rothstein Kass global network has established Rothstein Kass Ireland and completed its admission as a member firm. »