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Placement agent and advisory firm Eaton Partners, a wholly owned subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp, has appointed Bill McLeod (pictured), as a Managing Director.
He will continue to be based out of Stifel’s San Francisco office, establishing the eighth global office location for Eaton.
McLeod, an industry veteran with over 25 years of capital markets and investment banking experience, will focus on growing Eaton Partners’ direct private capital raising platform, advising clients on strategy and providing direct opportunities to investors across the globe. In addition, he will expand Eaton’s origination efforts in the acquisition of new fund clients across
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UBS Financial Services has invested in iCapital Network, a financial technology platform providing access to alternative investments for high-net-worth individuals and their financial advisors, joining lead investor BlackRock as a strategic partner.
Founded in 2013, iCapital’s online platform offers the high-net-worth community access to a curated menu of alternative investments such as hedge funds and private equity funds. As part of its offering, iCapital provides an end-to-end technology solution automating the unique subscription, administration and reporting processes of these investments, which have historically only been available to institutional investors. iCapital will use the infusion of capital to further develop the
- 12/07/2017
Multi-asset prime services firm, Invast Global, will be host to an exclusive event focused on promoting the FX Global Code of Conduct which was published in May 2017.
Special guest for the evening will be Dr Guy Debelle, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia, who has been the leading visionary and main architect of the Global Code.
An exclusive selection of executives, regulatory representatives and politicians have been invited to the occasion which will be held at the magnificent O-Bar on level 47 of Australia Square this month.
Gavin White (pictured), Invast Global CEO, says: “The
- 12/07/2017
Hedge funds ended their five-month winning streak, ending June down down 0.19 per cent according to preliminary figures for the month released by EurekaHedge.
The average return of the Eurekahege Hedge Fund Index was drawn into negative territory in June as developed market mandates underperformed their emerging market peers; with trend-following and macro strategies lagging behind the pack.
Meanwhile, underlying markets as represented by the MSCI AC World Index (Local) were up 0.18 per cent over the same period. Equity markets posted mixed results with European equities ending the month in the red whilst North American mandates posted modest
- 12/07/2017
The Managed Funds Association(MFA) has launched an updated Institutional Investor Map utilising data from Preqin and a new video series featuring institutional investors explaining, in their own words, the important role hedge funds play in their institutions’ larger portfolios.
“Institutions like pensions, charities and universities across the country represent approximately two-thirds of the industry’s invested assets,” says MFA President and CEO Richard H Baker (pictured). “This project highlights that strong partnership and the important role the industry plays in helping institutional investors across the country provide secure retirements, expand educational opportunities, increase research funding and fulfil charitable missions.”
The
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Allenbridge, an independent investment adviser to UK pension funds and part of MJ Hudson, the asset management consultancy, has appointed Antti Suhonen as Director.
Suhonen has worked as an independent consultant and adviser to clients in the financial services sector, with a focus on alternative investments and financial markets. He also holds a position as Professor of Practice in Finance at Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki, Finland. His teaching and research interests include alternative investments, financial institutions, and fixed income and credit markets.
Suhonen previously held various derivatives structuring, product development, sales, and trading roles in investment
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Realignment of interests in the hedge fund space is continuing, with hurdle rates and founder’s share class structures now present in more than 70 per cent of institutional portfolios, according to Credit Suisse’s mid-year Hedge Fund Investor Sentiment Survey.
This appears to be part of the ongoing dialogue between investors and hedge funds regarding proper alignment of terms & fees.
The Survey, which polled over 200 global institutional investors representing almost USD 660 billion in hedge fund investments on their hedge fund activities during the first half of the year, as well as strategy appetite and allocation plans for
- 12/07/2017
By George Ralph (pictured), RFA Financial Cloud and Technology Services – It’s a widely held misconception that heavily regulated industries are the least agile, and the slowest to innovate. In the financial services sector particularly, there is a tendency to see compliance and responsibility as a barrier to success, when they should be seen as the essential foundation.
The UK, rather than being a difficult place to do business for financial services firms, fosters growth with an active mix of regulators, investors and accelerators, and a government which is heavily involved in the economy. In fact, the UK’s regulator, the
- 11/07/2017
Arcadia Agri has selected TradesParent’s Commodity Risk Management software (RM) to provide daily up-to-date insights, analytics, reporting and monitoring of the firm’s trading and risk exposures with its proprietary Control Board and intuitive Personalised Dashboards.
Arcadia Agri is a specialist risk management company that provides commodity hedging and risk management solutions to commodity consumers and producers through Over-the-Counter (OTC) structures and transactions. These services provide clients with protection against price volatility of underlying commodities to which they are exposed through their commercial activities. Allied to these derivatives products, Arcadia Agri is also able to offer its clients structured financing solutions.
- 11/07/2017
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Acting Chairman J Christopher Giancarlo has appointed Daniel Gorfine (pictured), to serve as Director of LabCFTC and Chief Innovation Officer, effective immediately.
“Daniel is a well-respected leader whose expertise in market-enhancing FinTech will help the CFTC disrupt the status quo and change the way government interacts with our ever-innovating marketplace,” says Giancarlo. “Daniel’s addition to the team will move our LabCFTC initiative into its next phase and will further our efforts to make the CFTC a 21st century regulator for our 21st century digital markets.”
“New technologies are increasingly transforming financial markets and
- 11/07/2017
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