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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Global Alliance Wealth Management has launched a private debt component to compliment its existing Alternative Solutions Platform.
With offices in New York, Hong Kong and soon to be Tokyo, the alternative investment management firm continues to present accredited investors and private clients with access to alternative sources of liquid and illiquid risk-adjusted returns.
Phillip Garten, Chief Operating Officer of Global Alliance Wealth Management, says: “In response to the changing demands of our institutional clients, and with a rising interest in private debt solutions, we have incorporated an offering into our existing alternative platform to facilitate a seamless, highly-automated diversification
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Regulatory and fee pressures are forcing the hedge fund industry to evolve, but a lively panel debate at the annual Linedata Exchange Europe client conference in London affirmed that with the right investment approach, infrastructure and distribution strategy, hedge funds will continue to succeed.
Paul McLernon, COO, Pensato Capital said that while regulation is driving up costs and complexities in product development and capital raising, it can also bring about positive change. “We should embrace change as an opportunity,” he said.
MiFID II compliance is a major undertaking for hedge funds and service providers alike. Geoff Galbraith, COO, Man
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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a civil enforcement action against Daniel Winston LaMarco and his company, GDLogix Inc, charging them with off-exchange foreign currency derivatives (forex) fraud, commodity pool fraud, and failure to register with the CFTC, as required.
LaMarco previously resided in Huntington, New York, and GDLogix’s last known principal place of business was in Huntington, New York. Neither Defendant has ever been registered with the CFTC.
According to the CFTC’s Complaint filed on 10 July, 2017, from January 2011 through March 2016, LaMarco fraudulently solicited and accepted USD1,492,650 from 13 individuals to trade
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