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FTI Consulting has launched its Specialist Director Support Services offering in the Cayman Islands, following approval of a Companies Management Licence by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) and the registration of individual directors under the local Directors Registration and Licensing Law.
FTI Consulting has one of the most active restructuring teams for distressed funds in the Cayman Islands and will complement its existing services to alternative investment funds with this offering. As one of a select few restructuring firms licensed and regulated by CIMA for the purpose of providing independent directors, FTI Consulting senior leaders in the Cayman Islands
- 26/07/2017
Global fiduciary and administration services provider Estera has acquired Headstart, a specialist corporate and trust services business in Luxembourg.
The transaction paves the way for Estera’s expansion into Luxembourg, one of world’s most important jurisdictions for funds and corporate services, while also broadening the company’s offering in corporate, fund and trust services.
Headstart’s Managing Directors, Christophe Gaul and Manuel Mouget, will continue to lead the business. The company, whose clients include private equity and real estate firms, institutional clients, corporates and high net worth individuals, will rebrand to Estera in September 2017.
Farah Ballands (pictured), CEO of Estera,
- 25/07/2017
- 25/07/2017
JP Morgan has launched a new agency pass-through securities index, the JP Morgan MBS Agency Index (MAX) which is designed to act as an efficient and in-depth measure of the US MBS market’s largest and most traded fixed-rate agency programs.
In this all-encompassing benchmark, JP Morgan combines 30-year, 15-year and now 20-year MBS in an index containing 404 aggregates that cover almost 85 per cent of the US agency market (as of June 30, 2017). The MAX index reduces tracking error by reflecting monthly agency factor updates from the 6th business day of the month, compared to delays until the
- 25/07/2017
- 25/07/2017
Against the backdrop of the current macroeconomic environment, Howie Li (pictured), CEO, Canvas, ETF Securities, is encouraging investors to think deeply about future proofing their portfolios.
“The unconventional policy steps which central banks took from 2008 onwards has had knock-on effects to the valuation of assets and this continues to create big challenges for investors. At the beginning of the year, investors were concerned about inflation, how much longer the equity markets could continue to perform strongly and about Brexit as well as geopolitical risk generally. Not much has changed over the year but these remain drivers for uncertainty at
- 25/07/2017
- 25/07/2017
The new BMO Enhanced Equity Income ETFs range is a first for passive investors says Christine Cantrell (pictured), sales director, ETFs, at BMO Global Asset Management. The strategy brings an institutional approach to investing, available in an ETF format, with broad equity benchmarks at its core and an option overlay for additional yield.
“I am excited because these are so unique,” Cantrell says. “They haven’t been done before in the UCITS ETF structure but it is a tried and tested approach because we are already leaders in a similar strategy in Canada.”
Canadian headquartered BMO has GBP23.5 billion assets under management
- 25/07/2017
The ETF industry has enjoyed another extraordinary year of asset gathering. At the end of June 2017, there were 1,830 US exchange traded funds with assets of USD2,886 billion according to the latest monthly overview of the US ETF market by Ultumus. Assets in the iShares Core products MSCI EAFE ETF, S&P 500 ETF and US Agg Bond ETF all experienced strong inflows during the month of June, attracting in excess of USD2 billion each along with the SPDR Fin Sel Sector ETF.
Assets in US fixed income ETFs saw gains of over USD4 billion for the month, while the
- 25/07/2017
By Matt Mulry, Dillon Eustace – Whether you’re looking to launch a private equity fund focused on venture capital, real estate, infrastructure, technology, energy, health care or art or a hedge fund focused on global macro, long/short equity, special situations, fixed-income or commodities the Cayman Islands is a great place to start.
There are many options available to the start up manager to establish a track record and build the scale required to attract capital from key institutional investors across the globe. The right first step will depend on the location of the manager, the nature of the initial investors,
- 25/07/2017
StatPro Group, a provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has appointed Will Entwistle, as North American Sales Director and Group Executive Board member.
Entwistle is joining StatPro with a wealth of knowledge in the financial services software industry and is bringing with him over 20 years of experience in leading software and data solution sales teams in North America, having worked at IBM, NorthStar, IDC, SS&C and others.
“As asset management firms look to refocus their core business operations, Revolution’s capability of being the only fully integrated performance and risk
- 25/07/2017
Nasdaq is to acquire Sybenetix, a surveillance provider that combines behavioural analytics and cognitive computing with financial markets expertise. Sybenetix’s technology offering is designed to solve key surveillance challenges facing the asset management industry.
The addition of Sybenetix to Nasdaq’s Risk & Surveillance suite of solutions, including SMARTS and TradeGuard, will allow Nasdaq to bring deeper technology savviness and expertise to buy-side compliance officers across the global capital markets who require future-focused surveillance capabilities to protect their firms. Sybenetix’s behavioural science technology will further strengthen Nasdaq’s conduct surveillance offering, which will provide a holistic view of behavioural risks across trade, ecomms,
- 25/07/2017
- 25/07/2017
Acadian Asset Management (UK) Ltd, the London-based subsidiary of Boston-based, quantitative hedge fund management company Acadian Asset Management, has appointed Mark Roemer (pictured), as Portfolio Manager in the London office.
In this role, Roemer will be part of the core portfolio management team and responsible for aiding the development of Acadian’s investment process, drawing upon his quantitative capabilities and knowledge of global equity markets. His experience in developing and implementing new strategies will aid in the continued progress of Acadian’s investment offering, which spans Equity, Long/Short and Managed Volatility strategies.
Roemer has over twenty years of investing experience and
- 25/07/2017
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