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Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, has added to its China equity capabilities with portfolio manager Bin Yu joining the firm.
Yu brings with him a team of four research analysts, all from CloudRidge Capital, an investment management firm he founded in 2014. The team will continue to manage their current strategy as a private fund with offerings to expand based on Neuberger Berman clients’ needs. The team is located in Hong Kong and Beijing.
Yu and team bring strong local expertise and experience in the China equity markets – both with local listed A-shares and Hong
- 20/07/2017
Alternative UCITS funds continued experiencing strong capital inflows during 2017 with the market reaching EUR435 billion in assets under management by the end of June, a strong +10.2 per cent growth since beginning of the year.
That’s according to the LuxHedge Alternative UCITS Market Update which reveals that the most popular alternative strategies in UCITS format were Fixed Income Arbitrage (AUM +14.7 per cent), Global Macro (AUM +13.9 per cent) and Multi Strategy (AUM +12.9 per cent). Equity Long/Short funds stayed somewhat behind on this trend and recorded a +4.9 per cent increase in assets. With the VIX index at
- 20/07/2017
HFR reports that hedge fund industry capital increased to a fourth consecutive quarterly record in 2Q17, as investor allocations outweighed redemptions for the first time since 3Q15.
Total hedge fund capital rose to USD3.1 trillion, a quarterly increase of USD34.1 billion, driven by net inflows of USD6.7 billion. The 2Q inflows offset an outflow of USD5.5 billion in 1Q17, bringing YTD net inflows to USD1.2 billion.
The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index (FWC) posted its eighth consecutive monthly gain and fifteenth gain in the past 16 months to conclude 2Q17, the longest such performance streak since the period ending April
- 20/07/2017
By George Ralph, RFA – Imagine you’re the CTO of a successful hedge fund. You’re not big enough to have a dedicated CISO but you think you’re doing a pretty good job of securing your network. Your applications and databases are secure, you’ve just invested in a network intrusion detection system and some next generation firewalls.
Next, you move on to your internet traffic and cloud services. You make sure your firm’s SSL certificates are up to date, and you use HTTPS and OAuth2.0. Then you insist all remote users access the network via secure VPN, that files are
- 20/07/2017
- 20/07/2017
Running an alternative fund management business has become a far more considered, strategic affair in the light of significant regulatory changes post-08. One might compare it to the ultimate game of strategy, chess. To stay in compliance with AIFMD, Dodd-Frank, and the upcoming MiFID II and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in Europe, fund managers have to think two moves ahead, and ensure that they have their pawns in position. One wrong move and they run the risk of facing what might be best described as regulatory checkmate.
“I think the implementation of AIFMD has had the biggest impact on
- 20/07/2017
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin has appointed Charles M Miller as a partner in the firm’s Litigation practice where he will lead the newly formed Securities and Financial Services Litigation Group.
A litigator with more than 20 years of experience, Miller represents institutional investors, investment funds, high-net-worth individuals and overseas financial institutions in a wide range of disputes arising in connection with debt and equity securities, derivatives, financial contracts and structured financial transactions.
Miller litigates contract and tort claims arising in connection with privately issued debt and equity, leveraged loans, collateral bond obligations (CBOs), collateral loan obligations (CLOs), residential mortgage-backed
- 20/07/2017
Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, today published the results of its Fixed Income Institutional Voice Survey, with US and European institutional traders revealing that “sourcing liquidity” is the most important factor when selecting a trading venue.
Driven by regulatory and market structure changes, the fixed income trading landscape has recently shifted as the buy side aims to find an optimal path to unlock and source liquidity when trading bonds. As a result, discussions around trading have moved toward an increase in electronic trading and having the right technology in place in order to navigate the rapidly changing fixed income
- 20/07/2017
Hedge Funds gained 0.37 per cent in June according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The index has risen every month this year, as well as in 11 of the past 12 months, and is up 4.41 per cent for 2017.
“The hedge fund industry continues to show broad strength,” says Sol Waksman (pictured), founder and president of BarclayHedge. “The continued rally in the US equity market combined with outsized returns in specific market segments have led the industry higher this year.”
Overall, 13 of 17 subindices showed gains in June. Among the winners, Healthcare and
- 20/07/2017
Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust PLC, a newly incorporated close-ended public limited company, has begun trading on the Specialist Fund Segment of the London Stock Exchange’s Main Market. Gabelli Merger Plus+ Trust PLC raised gross proceeds of USD100,111,000.
Robert Barnes, Global Head of Primary Markets and CEO Turquoise, London Stock Exchange Group, says: “Welcoming the second Gabelli fund to our markets today is a milestone for the company, having successfully raised over $100 million and testament to the strength of the UK fund industry. London Stock Exchange continues to finance a variety of issuers from across the world, with over £4.4
- 19/07/2017
Street Contxt, a fintech company that helps brokerages, independent research providers, and asset managers distribute, manage, unbundle, and value research, has launched its buy side service.
The new functionality allows investors, including hedge funds, pension funds, and institutional asset managers, to never miss information that they care about by centralising and organising the entire firm’s content and knowledge, whether it comes from brokers, independent research providers, internal sources, corporate IR, filings, the web, or anywhere else. Street Contxt enables fund managers to access one portal to share the firm’s subscriptions and internal knowledge, collaborate internally on investment ideas, monitor their
- 19/07/2017
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