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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Axioma, a provider of risk and portfolio management solutions, has launched the latest version of its Japan Equity Factor Risk Model suite (AXJP4).
The model provides improved methodologies, enhanced style factors and enriched exposures for its fundamental and statistical models, which all combine to deliver improved risk forecasts and better articulate risk.
“Sophisticated risk management is taking centre stage, emphasising the need for advanced and effective tools,” says Joel Coverdale, Asia Pacific managing director at Axioma. “Our latest Japan Equity Risk Model suite exemplifies our commitment to providing clients with more informative and intuitive results for performance and
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PivotalPath, a technology-driven hedge fund investment consultant, has launched Quality of Performance (PQP), a proprietary quantitative manager rating system across 1,300-plus hedge funds, located on its technology platform, PivotalBase.
PQP systematically transforms existing quantitative insights into intuitive fund ratings presented across the firm’s platform.
The algorithm measures the key qualities of suitable hedge fund manager performance within the context of its peers, ultimately empowering sophisticated clients to identify managers who employ a repeatable application of skilful methods.
The use and application of PQP will enable dynamic fund comparisons and improve clients’ decision-making process.
“‘Quality of Performance’
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Nine of the BRI index strategies, including BRI’s Long/Short Equity (BRILSE) Index, which is powered by Wilshire, are now available on the HedgeCoVest UMA/SMA platform.
HedgeCoVest also provides the SMArt Xchange, a UMA/SMA solution exclusively for SS&C’s client base of advisors using Axys, APX, or Black Diamond, where the BRI indexes will also feature.
BRI Partners has entered into a licensing agreement with HedgeCoVest to make the index strategies accessible on its investment platform.
BRI will provide nine passive indexes for long-only and absolute return hedge fund strategies: long/short equity, dynamic growth and value, hedged small cap,
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Cowen, formerly Cowen Group, has launched a new brand identity Outperform, designed to better reflect the quality and breadth of services the firm offers clients and partners.
“Financial services and actively managed investment products need to be differentiated and immediately recognisable as capable of contributing to overall client performance,” says Peter A Cohen (pictured), chairman and chief executive officer of Cowen. “In staying true to our mission, Cowen is a well-recognised organization with focused asset management offerings and knowledge-based financial services offerings for corporations and active investors.”
Jeffrey M Solomon, president of Cowen, says: “To be successful in
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