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iCapital Network has expanded its platform to offer investment opportunities and support to accredited investors. As part of the roll-out, iCapital has enhanced the functionality of its technology platform to allow for the onboarding and servicing of accredited investors — in addition to its offerings for qualified purchasers — with the platform featuring alternative investment products specifically tailored for each investor base.   The accredited investor market, which is estimated to be 10 times the size of the qualified purchaser market, has a burgeoning appetite for alternative investments and the important role they play in diversifying a portfolio. The large
By Eze Castle Integration – There’s a lot to fear in the cyber world and hackers’ techniques are only getting more advanced. Their weapons of choice vary in scope and substance, but regardless of the threat actor, investment management firms must employ rigid and resilient protections to ward off the equally sophisticated cyber threats that continue to surface.  We recently surveyed a group of financial investment firms to learn more about what they consider the most fearsome cyber threats to their businesses. Here’s why we think these are eliciting the most fear. Unauthorised access or theft of data (31%) –
Law firm MJ Hudson has hired three senior lawyers to its team. Christopher Dearie joins as partner (financial services law and regulation).   Dearie advises asset managers, banks and domestic and international investment funds on a broad range of financial services regulatory issues. He previously worked at Freshfields, Ropes & Gray, and Jones Day.   Dearie says: “I am delighted to be joining MJ Hudson at this exciting time and look forward to playing my part in growing the regulatory offering.”   Daniel Lewin will head the firm’s tax practice as partner. Lewin is currently a partner of Arnold &
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has added four new members to its board of directors. The new directors are Michael Herskovitz, director of fixed income risk operations and technology and co-head of enterprise operational risk at AllianceBernstein; Kathleen Lynch, chief operating officer for UBS Americas and Wealth Management Americas; Umesh Subramanian, co-head of the Goldman Sachs technology division; and Lara J Warner, chief compliance and regulatory affairs officer at Credit Suisse and a member of the executive boards of Credit Suisse Group and Credit Suisse.   The DTCC board of directors provides direction and oversight for DTCC in
Axon Financial Systems, a provider of technology-enabled market data management, has launched its new brand and website, which includes an enhanced product platform offering a three-tier suite of market data management solutions. The new platform, which includes the product suites AxonKnowledge, AxonManage, and AxonWorks, is designed to strengthen Axon’s core customer offering and lay the foundation for the introduction of additional new products and services in the future.   Since its launch in 2014 Axon has been disrupting the market data management industry by using technology to streamline market data reporting and administration.   Axon products ease the burden of
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2017 measured 2.41 per cent, down from 3.48 per cent in March. "SS&C GlobeOp's Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2017 of 2.41 per cent represents a sharp improvement on a year-over-year basis from 2.94 per cent reported in April of 2016," says Bill Stone (pictured), chairman and chief executive officer, SS&C Technologies.   "This is the third consecutive month of improvement in the Forward Redemption Indicator compared to the same periods a year ago and is consistent with other recent data we have seen, including favourable results in SS&C GlobeOp's Capital Movement
The past week has been adverse for global macro and CTA hedge fund strategies, according to Lyxor’s latest Weekly Brief. This has taken place in the context of the announcement of general elections in the UK, which translated into trend reversals across UK assets.   Higher risk aversion in Europe ahead of the French presidential election also played a role.   Both strategies maintain sizeable long European equity exposures while some macro managers are also short European fixed income. Yet, the likelihood that Macron will win with a comfortable margin at the runoff on 7 May is supportive for both
By Matt Mulry, Dillon Eustace â€“ Cayman has seen a healthy increase in private equity funds year on year over the past decade. The popularity of Cayman private equity funds has been fuelled by both the evolution of hedge fund managers’ businesses into the private equity fund space and by the increased use of private equity funds to pursue distressed asset investments. The Cayman exempted limited partnership (ELP) structure is the most commonly used entity for Cayman private equity funds and is internationally recognised as a flexible, tax-neutral, low-cost fund vehicle. ELPs do not have their own legal personality and their
Tikehau Capital, a pan-European listed alternative asset management and investment firm, has appointed Peter Cirenza as head of its London operations, effective 24 April 2017. Cirenza will be responsible for helping develop the firm’s private asset strategies – private debt, real estate and private equity.   He will be running the London operations alongside chairman Lord Peter Levene.   Cirenza has been a member of Tikehau Capital’s advisory board since 2005. In this role, he has been supporting the company’s leadership team providing his insight as an outside expert in principal investing, structured finance and mergers and acquisitions.   Bringing
Kempen Capital Management has launched a solution that enables professional investors to access the structured credit market in a cost-efficient manner. The Diversified Structured Credit Pool (DSCP) is a pool comprised of long-only structured credit funds carefully selected by Kempen, through which investors are able to gain access to three best-in-class structured credit specialists (GoldenTree, LibreMax and One William Street).   Kempen has a long history investing in structured credit managers since 2009, as part of its flagship fund of hedge funds (FoHF) Kempen Orange Investment Partnership. Its hedge fund solutions team includes three portfolio managers, who each have more

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