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Captive Alternatives (CapAlt), an Atlanta based risk management consultancy that pioneered the Protected Captive, has hired operations and business development professional Emilie Gastley (pictured), as Director of Marketing. In that capacity, Gastley will be charged with educating High Net Worth (HNW) financial professionals and business owners about the benefits of owning a Private Insurance Company.   “Captive Alternatives’ Private Insurance Company is so innovative, it will change the way HNW business owners and families approach risk management, asset protection, estate and tax planning and exit strategies,” says Gastley. “The structure and domicile of the CapAlt Private Insurance Company make it
Michaël Malquarti (pictured), manager of Quaero Capital’s Argos European Equities Long Short Equity strategy, believes European equity markets continue to point to a mid-term bullish picture, from a technical standpoint. The strategy aims to profit from pockets of market inefficiencies through the application of a systematic and objective investment decision process. By combining powerful value and momentum criteria, the model objectively preselects stocks that statistically offer an attractive performance potential.   “Up to May, out of the selected stocks held constituting the long leg of the portfolio, 53 per cent had a positive absolute price performance and 47 per cent
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was down 0.9 per cent last month, with four out of 10 Lyxor indices in positive territory, according to the latest Lyxor Alternative Investment Industry Barometer. Event Driven funds continued to extend their steady progress in June, supported by their exposures to healthcare and financials. Fixed Income Arbitrage manages outperformed, while CTAs suffered from the bond correction.   “Most micro strategies benefitted from an improving alpha environment since mid-2016. We expect more demanding conditions going forward,” says Jean-Baptiste Berthon (pictured), Senior Cross-asset Strategist, Lyxor Asset Management.” We focus on deep value L/S Equity and Special
Members of defined contribution pension plans and schemes should carefully manage risk and volatility to create better predictability of investment outcomes. It is, in short, equally as important for those embarking on their retirement savings journey as it is for those reaching retirement age.  This is one of the key takeaways from new research that Standard Life Investments is preparing to publish in its latest white paper on DC investment strategies.  It is now more than two years since pension freedoms were launched. Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, announced in the 2014 budget that for the 2015/16 tax year
Imperial Capital has added senior high yield professionals; James Book, institutional sales professional, and Daniel Derman, senior distressed trader, to its team. Book and Derman join Imperial Capital’s High Yield & Distressed Credit Group as Managing Directors based in New York. The two hires expand Imperial’s global high yield institutional coverage in the US.   “We are pleased to welcome Jim and Dan to our team as they bring with them a distinguished track record of success and key relationships to complement our fixed income franchise,” says Tom Corcoran (pictured), President of Imperial Capital. “The depth of their product knowledge
NEX Optimisation, which helps clients reduce complexity and optimise resources across the transaction lifecycle, has appointed Paul Busby (pictured), as Global Head of Sales for ENSO, its portfolio finance and centralised treasury management solution for the buy-side. Busby will be responsible for expanding sales and strategic partnerships across the US, EMEA and APAC regions, reporting to Matthew Bernard, CEO of ENSO. The business currently provides centralised treasury services to clients globally, most recently expanding into the APAC region in 2017.   Busby has over 25 years of senior experience in prime brokerage, equity finance and securities lending, and joins from
Sentieo has launched a new cloud-based integrated Research Management System (RMS), which is aimed at helping analysts seamlessly organise research and collaborate with colleagues. The RMS provides deep analytics for investment professionals to identify and analyse behaviour and processes that drive their performance and decision making process.   Sentieo provides investment professionals the most efficient platform to search through mountains of data with single-click access to search through a comprehensive database of global financial documents, along with their own notes and content. Since all notes are automatically tagged with the appropriate ticker, users can instantaneously recall – on mobile or
Axioma has appointed Thomas D Severance (pictured), to the newly created position of Senior Managing Director and Chief Revenue Officer. Severance was previously at IHS Markit for six years, where he most recently served as Managing Director, Markit Analytics, heading its risk strategy and analytics business in the Americas.   “Accelerating growth in our target markets is our number one objective,” says Sebastian Ceria, Chief Executive Officer at Axioma. “With more than 20 years of experience at innovative, high growth companies operating at the intersection of risk, analytics and technology, Tom is a perfect fit for Axioma. As Chief Revenue
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA – 2017 is as good a time as any to be starting a new alternative investment firm, certainly better than it would have been a decade ago, but there are some key areas of focus that start-ups should be on top of. Here are some thoughts on how to help set your start-up to be successful: Start out with a great investment strategy Great alternative investment firms need a great investment strategy. Global macro, equity hedge, event-driven, relative value strategies, distressed securities- it doesn’t matter as long as the chosen strategy has been proven to
Alternative asset manager FS Investments has hired Michael Carter as Executive Vice President and Head of Strategy. Carter will be based in the firm’s Philadelphia headquarters, serve on the firm’s Executive Committee and oversee firm strategy and business development, with a focus on growing FS Investments’ existing credit franchise and expanding into other alternative investment platforms.   “Mike Carter has had a broad, impressive career in financial services as a credit and hedge fund platform builder, operator and leader,” says Michael C Forman (pictured), Chairman and CEO of FS Investments. “Mike’s investment experience and strategic focus will be critically important as

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