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Ashburton Investments (Ashburton), the investment management arm of the FirstRand Group, has further strengthened its multi asset team with three hires in its London office.
Mark Melehes joined the business as a cross-asset strategist in April. Jianzhong “Jack” Ren joined the team as a fixed income analyst and Samed Hysa as a macro analyst. Melehes, Ren and Hysa will help to further develop Ashburton’s multi asset offering which has a track record of more than 30 years.
Mark Melehes, cross-asset strategist, comes with a strong background in generating and structuring of trades in both cash and volatility markets. Prior
- 08/06/2017
Eaton Vance Management has launched the Eaton Vance International (Ireland) Parametric Global Defensive Equity Fund, a sub-fund of Eaton Vance International (Ireland) Funds.
The Fund currently has over USD200 million (USD) in commitments, of which over USD70 million (USD) was invested at the Fund’s inception in May 2017. The Fund is a registered UCITS fund, subject to regulation by the Central Bank of Ireland.
The Fund is managed by Eaton Vance Advisers (Ireland) Limited and the investment adviser is Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (“Parametric”), a majority owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp. The Fund’s portfolio managers are Jack Hansen
- 08/06/2017
CTA performance on the whole was flat in May, remaining flat for the year 2017, according to the latest performance figures for the SG CTA indices released by Societe Generale Prime Services.
The Short Term Traders Index fared slightly better and posted a positive return +0.29 per cent, but all SG Managed Futures indices remain down year to date.
Trend-following had mixed fortunes in May, closing a challenging month down -0.35 per cent, despite positive returns from four of the ten constituents in the SG Trend Index.
The SG Trend Indicator illustrated that there were return opportunities for
- 08/06/2017
Alternative investments have become increasingly mainstream in recent decades, but particularly since the financial crisis, the industry has placed renewed emphasis on transparency and governance when it comes to hedge, private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and other alternative funds.
Working with the Economist Intelligence Unit, Northern Trust asked 200+ alternatives managers and institutional investors for their views. Highlights from the new survey are outlined in a new infographic.
6 out of 10 respondents cite transparency as the most important factor in alternative investing
Regulation and risk management drive the need for transparency
Despite its importance, there remains little consensus
- 07/06/2017
NEX Regulatory Reporting is to use Duco’s technology to provide MiFID II reconciliation to the firm’s clients.
Reconciliation is a mandatory activity under MiFID II. The joint offering will use Duco’s reconciliation platform, Duco Cube, as a “black box” through its API. As a result, NEX Regulatory Reporting clients will receive a seamless reporting, validation and reconciliation experience for MiFID II through the new NEX Regulatory Reporting integrated user interface. Clients will also be able to get full access to a dedicated Duco Cube instance for more complex requirements, such as MiFID-related internal controls or clean-up activities.
Collin Coleman,
- 07/06/2017
Linedata has launched its intelligent dashboard interface, Linedata Clarity, which is designed to simplify and prioritise decision-making for asset managers.
The dashboard interface is a modular component which can be integrated with solutions across Linedata’s comprehensive asset management platform.
Linedata says that Linedata Clarity provides a new way for key asset management roles, to include portfolio managers, compliance officers, traders and risk managers, to stay ahead and ensure their attention is focused in the right place at the right time with intelligent notifications and an interactive user interface that allows navigation through key data. The dashboard interface will have
- 07/06/2017
Sun Hung Kai Financial (SHKF) announced it has closed on its acquisition of 100 per cent of UK specialist brokerage and research firm North Square Blue Oak Limited (NSBO), following strategic cooperation between the two parties that started in early 2016 and with approval from UK regulators.
Subsequently, NSBO has been renamed Sun Hung Kai Financial (UK) (SHKF (UK)). Through the acquisition, SHKF will now have the ability to conduct institutional brokerage, specialist research and corporate finance businesses in the UK.
Established in 2003 and headquartered in London with an office in Beijing, SHKF (UK) is a member of
- 07/06/2017
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an opinion which sets out general principles on supervisory approach in relation to relocations of entities from the United Kingdom (UK) to the remaining 27 EU members states (EU27).
ESMA has issued its Opinion in response to increased requests from the financial market participants seeking to relocate to the EU27 and addresses concerns raised by national regulators that some EU member states could allow for the creation of letterbox entities in order to attract UK based asset managers. These concerns are especially relevant where UK based entities may seek to relocate to
- 07/06/2017
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has completed the annual Service Organisation Control (SOC) 2 Type II and Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) 16 Type II audits.
Conducted by an independent auditor, the certifications verify that the system architecture and security controls across the Options platform continue to provide a highly secure, available and private cloud service offering.
Introduced in 2011 as the financial industry standard for private cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service firms, SOC 2 Type II and SSAE 16 Type II assessments provide third-party assurance about a provider’s internal operating practices
- 07/06/2017
Jupiter has appointed two new analysts to its fixed income team. The new hires will have a specific focus on emerging markets, and will add significant support to Jupiter’s newly-established emerging market debt (EMD) strategy, led by Alejandro Arevalo.
Nachu Chockalingam joined Jupiter on 5 June 2017 from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan where she was an Emerging Markets Corporates Portfolio Manager. Prior to this she spent 12 years at JP Morgan, starting in corporate finance before becoming an analyst covering European investment grade and high yield credit and then Emerging Markets credit.
Reza Karim joined Jupiter in early
- 07/06/2017
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