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Epsilon Asset Management has opened for business having secured capital commitments for each of its three strategies in excess of USD100 million. Additionally, Epsilon has secured seed capital from William Cline (former CEO of hedge fund Clovis Capital, partner at Alcova Capital).
Led by Adam Lavin, Faryan Amir-Ghassemi (pictured), and Michael Perlow, Epsilon is an equity oriented manager aiming to bridge the divide between active and passive strategies.
Lavin, Amir-Ghassemi, and Perlow come from Novus Partners, a leader in providing analytics on active managers to institutional investors around the world. Previously, Lavin founded Alternative Investment Management, a multi-billion dollar
- 18/08/2017
Veracen has entered into a global co-development, co-marketing and collaboration agreement with Linedata Services. The agreement coves co-development of end-to-end financial technology solutions, co-marketing, and branding globally in Europe, Asia, and the United States with global support, client customisation, wrap around services, installation, and training.
The Veracen technology solutions, powered by Linedata’s financial application platform, are designed to be a complete and fully integrated set of applications for institutional investors worldwide. These include customised portfolio management tools and analytics, incorporating a unified data set from the investment decision through to performance and risk analytics, as well as the tracking of
- 18/08/2017
Brickendon has promoted two directors to executive level to help strengthen the firm’s management structure and drive sustainable growth.
Harpreet Singh, of Brickendon’s data practice, and Richard Cryer, of the risk and regulatory practice, were promoted for their industry-leading expertise in their relevant fields, their excellent day-to-day performances delivering complex programmes for clients and their extensive leadership and management expertise.
Brickendon, which operates out of London and New York and is currently considering other opportunities for expansion, is experiencing significant growth thanks to its innovative and tailored solutions which are proving highly popular at a time when the financial
- 18/08/2017
Multi-strategy hedge fund Whitebox Advisors has chosen Broadridge to provide a comprehensive, fully hosted and integrated platform of trading, portfolio management, reference data, reconciliation and data warehouse solutions for its front, middle and back-office operations.
Whitebox believes that moving to Broadridge’s hosted platform will enhance its ability to quickly respond to new growth opportunities.
Broadridge’s fully integrated solution will enable Whitebox to streamline and automate workflow around a complex array of traded instruments. Broadridge will be hosting Advent’s Geneva, thereby integrating Geneva with Broadridge’s data warehouse, HTML 5-based reporting solution and state-of-the-art order management / portfolio management/ risk management
- 18/08/2017
Cowen Inc has appointed Ann M Miller as a director in the firm’s Special Situations Group in the firm’s Investment Banking team.
Miller is based in Cowen’s New York City corporate headquarters and joins the firm with expertise in the public and private company sectors, working in both distressed and traditional M&A assignments. In her new role, Miller is responsible for both executing mandates and obtaining new mandates with new and existing clients. In addition, she is also responsible for client management relating to all of the Special Situations service offerings.
“I am very happy Ann has joined Cowen’s
- 18/08/2017
- 18/08/2017
The Boston office of global law firm K&L Gates has added James A Wright III (pictured), as a partner in the restructuring and insolvency practice. Wright previously practiced with Ropes & Gray.
Wright represents corporations, bondholders, private equity funds, hedge funds, institutional investors, and other parties in corporate restructuring matters including reorganisations, asset sales, liquidations, claim allowance adversary proceedings, setoff rights, and restructurings of portfolio companies. With an emphasis on large Chapter 11 cases, Wright has advised companies in the energy, oil and gas, financial services, health care, automotive, pharmaceutical, technology, and manufacturing industries in debtor-in-possession and committee representations. He has
- 18/08/2017
Altegris, a provider of alternative investment strategies, has partnered with Artivest, a technology-driven alternative investments platform, to bring its investment capabilities to Registered Investment Advisers (RIAs), independent broker-dealers, family offices, private banks, and other financial advisors serving qualified high-net-worth investors.
The partnership launches Artivest’s capabilities to offer alternative solutions to Accredited Investors.
Through this partnership, which entails a transition of USD1 billion of Altegris’ assets and over 20 different fund strategies onto the Artivest digital platform, Altegris’ current and future financial advisors and clients will now be able to utilise streamlined, online tools for onboarding and executing subscriptions as
- 18/08/2017
- 18/08/2017
The LuxHedge Global Alternative UCITS Index increased by 0.38 per cent during July (+1.16 per cent YTD), recording solid performance cross the board with nearly all strategy style indices posting a gain during the month.


In the Equity Hedge category, Long/Short Europe and Equity Market Neutral funds advanced with +0.65 per cent (+2.20 per cent YTD) and +0.40 per cent (+1.90 per cent YTD), respectively. In line with a clear trend in the global hedge fund market, performance was led by Asia focussed funds with the LuxHedge Equity Long/Short Asia index gaining 2.38 per cent during July (+16.05 per cent
- 18/08/2017
Strong institutional demand for comprehensive and robust performance benchmarks for risk parity products has prompted HFR to launched the HFR Risk Parity Indices, which are available to both investors and managers.
Risk parity is a portfolio allocation strategy based on targeting risk levels across various components of an investment portfolio. The risk parity approach allows investors to target specific levels of risk and to divide that risk equally across their portfolio in order to achieve optimal diversification. The primary objective of risk parity investing is to earn the same level of performance as traditional asset allocation strategies, but with less volatility
- 18/08/2017
- 18/08/2017
Technology innovation and evolution has had a profound effect on many jobs, perhaps most notably for a firm’s Chief Technology Officer. Once tasked with desktop support and server maintenance, these IT executives have seen their job descriptions change dramatically over the years. But that change doesn’t necessarily signal something negative.
This Private Equity CTO Survey asked these technology experts directly how they spend their time and what they view as the new and evolving role of the private equity CTO. Their answers highlight a transformative shift from technology troubleshooter to strategic thinker.
With the advent of outsourcing and the cloud, many
- 17/08/2017
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