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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
- 12/07/2017
- 12/07/2017
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
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has appointed Deloitte Consulting as an advisory collaborator in its ‘Market Roadmap’ project.
This ambitious project, conducted at the ten-year anniversary of the coining of the term impact investing, will assess industry progress to date, codify a vision for the future of the market, and outline specific actions to accelerate the advancement of the industry. With Deloitte’s support and advice through its Monitor Institute, the GIIN will lead a broad consultative initiative to identify the bold actions needed to exponentially enhance the scale and effectiveness of impact investing across the world.
Deloitte will provide valuable
- 11/07/2017
Financial solutions provider Profile Software is to acquire 100 per cent of Login SA, an international Treasury specialised provider. Profile Software acquired the majority of Login’s shares on 6 July 2017, and will conclude the acquisition in 2018.
Founded in 1988, Login is based in Paris, France, and specialises in developing financial treasury software. Through its AcumenNet platform, Login is serving front-office, trading, risk management, middle and back office requirements of Banks’ Treasury Departments. The product covers a wide range of asset classes that include, among others, Forex and Money Market instruments, Exchanged Traded and OTC derivatives as well as
- 11/07/2017
- 11/07/2017
In the face of costly regulation and a low margin environment, asset managers are increasingly recognising the need to overhaul the current industry model in order to stay profitable, according to a new survey by Multifonds.
The investment software and fund accounting firm’s Every Fund Survey 2017, conducted among more than 200 professionals in the global asset management industry, found that disruption in the industry may now be inevitable after almost two thirds (65 per cent) of asset managers believe profitability will decrease in the next 12 months. As a result, more than nine in 10 (92 per cent) respondents
- 11/07/2017
Hedge funds gained in June as the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates and oil prices extended sharp declines, while equity market volatility remained near historic lows, according to data released today by HFR.
The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index advanced 0.4 per cent for the month, the eighth consecutive monthly gain and the 15th gain in the last 16 months, led by strong performance in Emerging Markets, Equity Hedge and Healthcare exposures. June performance topped the Nasdaq and European equities, and brings H1 2017 performance to +3.7 per cent, also extending the record Index Value for the HFRI to
- 11/07/2017
H2O Asset Management (H2O), a specialist in global macro multi-strategy investment management, is to acquire Arctic Blue Capital, a systematic commodity-focused manager, from Stable Asset Management. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
The deal brings together two highly complementary investment managers and is a response to increasing client demand for investment strategies suited to a changing inflationary environment.
H2O, which was founded in 2010 and currently manages USD14.6 billion on behalf of clients, will provide extensive infrastructure and operational support to enable Arctic Blue to pursue its next level of growth. Arctic Blue, which will continue
- 10/07/2017
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