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Conquest Capital’s Conquest STAR UCITS Fund, a systematic absolute return trading strategy, has launched on ML Capital’s MontLake UCITS Platform.
MontLake is an independent platform for UCITS funds that provides investors with access to a range of liquid, transparent and regulated investment products domiciled in Dublin.
Conquest STAR is a pure alpha, short-term systematic trading strategy. The programme has been designed to capture independent alpha from short-term trading opportunities regardless of the risk environment in both “risk-seeking” and “risk-averse” regimes. The fund uses four sub-strategies employing dozens of models to dynamically allocate risk based on the Conquest Risk
- 18/05/2017
Financial industry professionals expect to see a significant increase in financial services companies either re-domiciling to other EU financial services centres or opening new subsidiaries there over the next three years.
That’s according to research from international asset management group MPG and the public relations firm Citigate Dewe Rogerson, which reveals that 83 per cent say this will be fuelled by Brexit and UK financial services companies wanting to ensure access to the EU.
This is followed by 54 per cent who see Chinese financial services companies becoming stronger and wanting to expand more into Europe, and 37
- 18/05/2017
The demand for infrastructure funds remains evidently strong. Last year, these vehicles raised USD62.9 billion in aggregate based on figures provided by Preqin*. In Q1 2017, that number had already reached USD29.5 billion; nearly twice the amount raised in Q1 2016 (USD16 billion).
“We’ve seen increasing interest in infrastructure deals, both listed and unlisted,” states Michael McCabe (pictured), Head of US Sales, MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group. “The number of deals in Q1 2017 for the US totalled USD50 billion and was fairly concentrated in the energy sector; natural resources, utilities, power
- 18/05/2017
Infrastructure has become a key area of focus for institutional investors as they look to diversify their fixed income portfolios to access longer term, resilient credit opportunities for income-like returns. Within this asset class, infrastructure debt is on the rise as investment managers look to construct new debt vehicles: either to provide direct lending to infrastructure operators, to access well-established municipal bond markets, or to structure their own private lending programmes by issuing tranches of unlisted bonds.
Last September, Schroders established a new infrastructure finance capability designed specifically to help institutional investors access the asset class.
Commenting on infrastructure finance
- 18/05/2017
IPC Systems, a provider of communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, is collaborating with OneAsia, a provider of connectivity, data centre, managed cloud and technology infrastructure services in Asia, to equip investors with the connectivity and technology for participation in the Chinese financial markets.
“IPC has a strong presence in the Chinese financial markets,” says David Dodd, SVP and managing director, Asia-Pacific, IPC. “Our relationship with OneAsia allows us to provide IPC’s global community with connectivity to the growing Chinese capital markets with both domestic and international connectivity solutions.”
Via the partnership, the IPC Financial
- 18/05/2017
Elsen, a platform-as-a-service company for large financial institutions, is to support the launch of QA Point, a new Thomson Reuters product built on its cloud-based platform, in the Asia Pacific region.
QA Point, the first commercially available product built on the Elsen nPlatform, was introduced to the North American market in May.
As a result of positive feedback in North America, Thomson Reuters has accelerated its launch across Asia, introducing the product months ahead of schedule.
“We’ve been able to accomplish some major feats with Thomson Reuters in a relatively short period,” says Zac Sheffer (pictured), founder
- 18/05/2017
Maitland, the global advisory and fund administration firm, has acquired Edinburgh based R&H Fund Services Limited from Jersey-based fund administrator R&H Fund Services (Jersey) Limited.
The move is the latest chapter of a period of global expansion for Maitland, following the acquisition of UK-based Phoenix Fund Services and the opening of offices in Miami and New York.
R&H’s Edinburgh office is primarily focused on the investment trust sector and currently service eight funds, representing a total assets under administration of approximately GBP2 billion (bringing Maitland’s total AuA worldwide to over GBP220 billion).
The deal will allow the
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- 18/05/2017
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved the creation of LabCFTC, an initiative aimed at promoting responsible fintech innovation to improve the quality, resiliency and competitiveness of the markets the CFTC oversees.
Located in New York LabCFTC will also look to accelerate CFTC engagement with fintech and regtech solutions that may enable the CFTC to carry out its mission responsibilities more effectively and efficiently.
LabCFTC is the agency’s focal point to promote fintech innovation and fair competition by making the CFTC more accessible to fintech innovators and serving as a platform to inform the CFTC’s understanding
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BlueMountain Capital Management, a private absolute return investment firm with USD22 billion in assets under management, has expanded the responsibilities of three members of the firm’s executive team.
Marina Lutova Meyers, a partner and portfolio manager at BlueMountain, has been given expanded responsibilities for overseeing performing credit globally. She will also continue to lead the firm’s long/short credit portfolio in North America, as well as its index arbitrage strategies. Meyers also oversees global trade execution, and is a member of the management and investment committees.
Meyers joined BlueMountain in 2007 from Bridgewater Associates, where she began as a
- 18/05/2017
Baird, an international wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm, has selected CAIS as the enterprise alternative investment platform for its financial advisers.
Established in 1919, Baird has more than 3,400 associates serving the needs of individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients, and has more than USD170 billion in client assets under management.
“The CAIS platform provides the turnkey access to high-quality alternative investment funds that Baird has been looking for,” says Dayna Kleinman (pictured), director and senior product manager for alternative investments at Baird. “Baird advisers can now turn to the CAIS platform when
- 18/05/2017
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