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Research Affiliates has launched a new version of Asset Allocation Interactive, an online investor tool that provides investment information and expected return data across more than 130 assets.
The site features newly added alternative asset classes including real estate, hedge funds, and private equity. The site also includes 11 model portfolios – encompassing expected and historical returns and risk, tracking error, CAPE ratios, inflation expectations, yield curves, GDP growth rates, commodity term structures, and more.
Acknowledging the popularity of the tool outside the United States, results are now available in four additional major currencies: euro, British pound, Japanese yen,
- 16/06/2017
Dr Nicola Meaden Grenham (pictured), co-founder of Dumas Capital, has been named Strategic Adviser to Kettera Strategies and its Hydra marketplace, a global platform providing investors with access, daily transparency, intra-month liquidity and notional funding to established and emerging alternative asset managers.
“We have the highest respect for Nicola and her many accomplishments in the alternatives sector” says Terri Engelman Rhoads, Kettera President. “We look forward to working with Nicola as Strategic Adviser to help expand our footprint internationally. Kettera’s Hydra marketplace uses technology to advance the requirements of investors and investment managers seeking to expand their relationships and enhance
- 16/06/2017
Independent credit provider InPark Square Capital (Park Square) has gone live on IHS Markit’s order management and portfolio modelling system, thinkFolio.
The implementation delivers operational efficiencies for Park Square’s front and middle office functions, with thinkFolio seamlessly integrating with the firm’s other IHS Markit loan offerings, providing end-to-end connectivity and workflows.
Park Square is using thinkFolio for portfolio modelling and construction, cash management, compliance and automation of the trading and trade approval processes. thinkFolio facilitates straight-through-processing to WSO, IHS Markit’s loan portfolio software, providing a single platform for position management, full portfolio NAV and reporting.
Park Square has
- 16/06/2017
Hermes Investment Management (Hermes), the GBP30.8 billion manager, has expanded its Sales and Client Relationship and Service teams with four new hires in its London headquarters.
Director Antoinette Eltz has joined Hermes’ Client Relationship Management Team, reporting into Gareth Davies, Head of Client Relationship Management. Antoinette will be responsible for building and developing relationships with Hermes’ clients across multiple distribution channels. A native German speaker, Eltz will help to strengthen support for the business’ European-based clients. Prior to joining Hermes, Eltz was a Senior Sales Director at Twelve Capital, an independent investment firm that specialises in insurance investments for institutional clients. Eltz
- 15/06/2017
P Schoenfeld Asset Management (PSAM), a global alternative asset management firm, is to act as the manager of the Tages PSAM Credit Fund, an existing sub-fund of Tages International Funds – a UCITS-compliant umbrella fund structure.
The new Fund’s focus will remain a credit long/short investment strategy. Originally launched in May 2016 as Tages Fore UCITS Fund, the Fund has been renamed the Tages PSAM Credit Fund with assets under management of USD64 million.
To help oversee the management of the Tages PSAM Credit Fund, Al Moniz has joined PSAM. Mr. Moniz previously served as a Portfolio Manager and
- 15/06/2017
- 15/06/2017
Blenheim Capital Management has reached an agreement with the employees of its Amsterdam-based affiliate, Blenheim Capital Management BBV, to establish the Dutch outfit as an independent entity.
Blenheim and BBV will continue to have a working relationship, but the two companies will no longer have a corporate affiliation. Blenheim will continue to make allocations to certain strategies run by BBV. The spinoff is expected to be completed in July and terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“We are extremely proud of the success we have achieved with our partners in Amsterdam over the last five years. Our collaboration
- 15/06/2017
BCS Global Markets, the Russian investment bank and largest securities broker on the Moscow exchange, has appointed Andrey Yumatov, to the newly created role of Deputy Chief Business Officer, Capital Markets and Investment Banking, Russia and CIS.
Prior to joining BCS Global Markets Yumatov worked as Senior Vice-president at JSCB Rossisky Capital.
Yumatov started his career in 1992 and brings almost 25 years experience in finance and investment banking. Before joining BCS Global Markets, Andrey has held management positions at OJSC CB Bank Austria, CJSC UniCredit Bank, Deutsche Bank, JSC VTB Bank and OJSC Bank of Moscow. Andrey graduated
- 14/06/2017
Misys and D+H have joined forces to create a diversified global financial software provider which will operate under the new company name Finastra.
The combination will create the third largest financial services technology company in the world, with approximately 10,000 employees and over 9,000 customers across 130 countries, including 48 of the top 50 banks globally. This follows the acquisition of D+H by Vista Equity Partners, which already owns Misys, creating a merger of two highly complementary financial technology providers.
Finastra will be led by Nadeem Syed in the role of Chief Executive Officer. Syed was previously CEO of
- 14/06/2017
FinTech company Red Deer and TheySay, a text analytics company created by computational linguists from the University of Oxford specialising in sentiment analysis and emotional AI, are to collaborate on deep text analytics to automatically connect, contextualise and analyse research, market, alternative and social data to facilitate better investment decision-making for active investment managers.
The recent exponential growth in Big Data has meant the investment community has been struggling to keep up with a rapidly expanding data universe, making the task of filtering data in real-time and converting it into tradable insight increasingly challenging. Attempts to address these big data
- 14/06/2017
Coinsilium Group Limited, an accelerator that finances and manages the development of early-stage blockchain technology companies, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with HyperChain Capital a hedge fund focused on investing in Blockchain companies.
Under the terms of the MoU, the firms will collaborate and finance co-investment opportunities in blockchain companies.
Investments in Blockchain companies via ICOs have surpassed VC investments in 2017.
HyperChain, led by Stelian Balta, is one of the world’s first large hedge funds investing in blockchain companies and new blockchain protocols via the acquisition of newly issued crypto and application-specific tokens (‘Tokens’).
- 14/06/2017
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