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New York-based hedge fund firm Gondor Capital Management has outperformed its much larger peers in the first four months of 2017 with strong gains.
Vincent Au, portfolio manager at Gondor Capital, says its domestic Gondor Partners LP gained 8.32 per cent through April (+0.36 per cent MTD, while its offshore Gondor Funds LTD generated a strong 7.75 per cent per cent returns during the same period (+0.43 per cent MTD).
The solid performances of Gondor’s two funds outshines their much bigger counterparts as the average hedge funds returned less than half of what they generated in the first
- 18/05/2017
Agecroft Partners has pledged to donate USD1 million from its Hedge Fund Leadership Summits to non-profit organisations that benefit children.
Since 2013 Agecroft Partners has committed to improving the lives of children through donating 100 per cent of their profits from conferences.
This includes Hedgeopolis (with which they are no longer involved) and their event Gaining the Edge – Hedge Fund Investor Leadership Summits. Through the end of 2017 Agecroft Partners expects to have given away over USD500,000 from these conferences.
For the second year in a row, Agecroft has chosen Help for Children/Hedge Funds Care
- 18/05/2017
Addepar has acquired AltX, an intelligence platform for the alternative investments market.
The acquisition deepens Addepar’s capabilities in alternative investments – which comprise USD120 billion of the USD600-plus billion of assets on Addepar’s platform.
With AltX, Addepar advances its mission to empower wealth advisers and asset owners to make more informed, data-driven investment decisions.
Alternative investments, including hedge funds, private equity, venture capital and real estate, have exploded in popularity, growing from USD2.5 trillion in 2004 to a projected USD13.6 trillion by 2020. Despite this growth, wealth advisers have struggled to provide an adequate level of information
- 18/05/2017
Castine Consulting and ONEaccess, a Visible Alpha company, are teaming up to provide enhanced RPA (research payment account) solutions to asset managers and hedge funds.
Castine has operated in the commission management space for 20 years and is combining its RPA Centre suite of due diligence and commission management modules with ONEaccess’ research consumption data, providing buy-side firms with an end-to-end solution for RPAs.
With greater transparency around commission payments for research, the combined solution offers buy-side firms of all sizes the ability to comply with MiFID II’s budgeting requirements, heightened due diligence, trade management and research payments,
- 17/05/2017
Paul Dentskevich has joined Crestbridge in Jersey as risk director, Jersey Management Company, in a move that boosts Crestbridge’s position as a provider of on and off balance sheet management company (ManCo) services to the international funds market.
Dentskevich (pictured) has over 28 years of financial services experience, with particular focus in the area of risk management, investment management and corporate governance of hedge and other multi-asset funds.
He has extensive boardroom experience across a diverse range of structures and, in his previous role as senior risk manager, was director on a number of subsidiary companies within Brevan
- 17/05/2017
- 17/05/2017
Woodford Investment Management has published the entire portfolio of its third fund, the CF Woodford Income Focus Fund, which launched in April this year.
In the interests of transparency and clarity for its investors, full disclosure of the CF Woodford Income Focus Fund’s portfolio will be provided online on a monthly basis, in line with the other Woodford funds.
Neil Woodford, head of investment, Woodford Investment Management, has built a portfolio focused on dividend-paying stock market listed securities with no geographical constraint, in a bid to meet increasing investor demand for high-quality income streams, together with capital growth.
- 17/05/2017
Jabre Capital Partners, a global multi-strategy asset management company, has chosen Broadridge’s integrated trading, portfolio management and risk management platform to help manage its front, middle and back-office operations.
Jabre will deploy Broadridge’s investment operations platform to manage its multi-asset funds.
Broadridge’s solution will enable Jabre to streamline and automate workflow around a complex array of traded instruments. Introducing these capabilities can help Jabre meet its pre- and post-trade compliance requirements while providing seamless connectivity to brokers and EMS platforms, and facilitating effective portfolio management and reporting. In addition, Jabre will have access to market and credit risk
- 17/05/2017
There is currently an industrial revolution taking place in the asset management industry, driven by the dual forces of mass production and mass customisation. Rather than merely create ‘one size fits all’ products, investment managers are increasingly required to develop investment solutions.
To navigate these changing waters, EDHEC-Risk Institute has teamed up with Yale School of Management to produce a 3-seminar academic programme in advanced investment management techniques.
The seminar series is specifically aimed at asset managers who wish to learn how to produce smarter building blocks and deliver mass customised solutions to their investors. And for asset allocators, who
- 17/05/2017
Horizon Software, a global technology provider for electronic trading and investment management, has launched native connectivity to the Singapore Exchange (SGX) for derivatives (DT).
Horizon now provides more than 80 native gateways to exchanges and trading venues around the world.
In Singapore, Horizon provides low latency connectivity for transactions and market data. Now in production and available to traders in Singapore and outside Singapore, connectivity to the exchange allows banks, brokers, funds and prop desks to execute trades at low-latency, along with market making and algorithmic trading.
Clement Pelletier, APAC sales director at Horizon Software, said: “SGX-DT
- 17/05/2017
INDATA, a provider of software, technology and services for buy-side firms, has released Epic Data API, a technology toolkit for connecting systems and data sources, extending or creating software programmes, custom reports and mobile-friendly applications.
The release is available to clients using INDATA’s iPM Epic solution, an investment software platform specifically designed for the era of big data.
Buy side firms are under ever increasing pressure to not only replace legacy systems, but to do more with less by extending current systems to be able to keep up with the regulatory environment, increased investor scrutiny and downward fees
- 17/05/2017
- 17/05/2017
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