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The next generation of liquid alternative products should focus on what asset allocators need in their portfolios, according to a report from alternative investment manager Beachhead Capital Management. Generation Two Liquid Alternatives: Built to Meet the Needs of Asset Allocators, addresses two key questions for investors today – why were many investors disappointed with the first generation of liquid alternative mutual funds, and what better solutions are available going forward?   The report says that liquid alternative products created in the wake of the financial crisis (Generation One) often had three issues: poor performance, high fees and/or highly unpredictable performance. With short track
Neptune Networks, a fixed income market network for pre-trade indications in bonds, has completed connectivity to FlexTrade’s buy-side EMS platform, FlexTRADER, to distribute pre-trade data to assist investors with liquidity and price discovery within existing workflows. With 22 dealers committed to the platform, over USD110 billion of gross notional and more than 20,000 axe/inventory items updating real time across 11,000 individual bonds (including investment grade, high yield, emerging markets and select rates from 20 different denominations), Neptune continues to expand from its original focus on European corporate bonds to a portfolio that also reflects the global nature and reach of its
MFS Investment Management has made a series of personnel appointments and organisational enhancements to its fixed income department, including naming regional heads for Europe and North America and seven research directors. MFS is also creating new positions to address client customisation needs and career development within its fixed income research team.   "MFS has grown its fixed income franchise considerably over the last five years, adding investment professionals in the US, Canada and Europe,” says William J Adams (pictured), chief investment officer for global fixed income at MFS. “We believe this structure is more closely aligned with the growth of
The board of directors of SIX has selected Sabir Sheikh to head up issuer regulation and Jared Bibler to be in charge of trading supervision at SIX Exchange Regulation. The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) has approved the selection. This means that the management committee of SIX Exchange Regulation, led by Corinne Riguzzi, is now fully staffed.   SIX Exchange Regulation is responsible for trading oversight and issuer regulation at all trading venues of SIX. It fulfils the regulatory responsibilities delegated to it by Swiss legislators under the self- regulation regime. SIX Exchange Regulation is independent of the trading
Lyxor Asset Management has teamed up with Harmonic Capital Partners to launch the Lyxor/Harmonic Macro Fund, the first global macro strategy with daily liquidity on Lyxor’s Alternative UCITS Platform. The new fund allows investors to leverage on investment opportunities created by the diverging paths of US and European monetary policies and economic activity.   Based on a fundamental analysis of global markets, the Fund specialises in relative value spread trading. Multiple independent investment strategies are traded across 36 markets and a broad set of asset classes (such as bonds, interest rates, G10 and Emerging currencies and equity indices).   This
Independent hedge fund administration specialist Custom House Global Fund Services has opened an office in Beijing to accommodate the need for experienced fund administrators with a local presence. In addition, the firm has hired Nancy Wang and Yichen Huang as relationship managers responsible for business development and client collaboration. The new hires will be based in Beijing and Shanghai respectively. They will report to Allen Li, director of the Hong Kong office.   "Custom House continues to expand on our relationship-driven services in the Asia alternatives market as new fund launches are on the rise," says Mark Hedderman (pictured), CEO,
Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG) has appointed Cary W Musser as head of strategic asset management, a new role within the firm. Musser (pictured) joined RCG this week with 30 years of investment and security lending experience, most recently at Wells Fargo Asset Management.   RCG executive vice president and chief financial officer Jason Manumaleuna says: "We are ecstatic to have someone of Cary's calibre and experience fill this important new role for us as we continue our long-term growth strategy. Starting a few years ago, RCG was the first futures brokerage and clearing firm to share on its website every
Quoniam, a quantitative asset management firm headquartered in Frankfurt, with more than EUR26 billion in assets under management, has implemented Axioma Risk to improve the quality of its daily risk reporting. Axioma Risk provides complex risk reports as well as ad hoc deep dive risk analyses for various asset classes.   With Axioma Risk, Quoniam’s risk department can define and customise the statistics it uses for risk figures and stress tests, which enables Quoniam’s risk team to quickly name and quantify risks associated with investments under its surveillance.   "Quoniam has been a valued client of our portfolio construction and
Harvest Global Investments, a Chinese and Asian markets asset manager, has launched its first UCITS-compliant sub-fund, Harvest China Evolution Equity Fund. The fund will primarily invest in equity or equity-related securities and will provide investors with access to all Chinese investment channels, including Hong Kong listed securities, China companies listed as ADRs and domestic A-share stocks via the stock connects.   The fund will be managed by Yannan Chenye, portfolio manager and head of China research at Harvest. Chenye joined Harvest in 2015, from Amundi Asset Management, where she was the Greater China investment manager. The investment team implements an
Independent trust, fund and corporate services provider Crestbridge has established a presence in the GCC following its acquisition of Ohad Trust, a Bahrain-based trust, fund and corporate services provider in Manama. With regulatory consent having now been received from the Central Bank of Bahrain, Ohad has become part of the Crestbridge Group, which also has complementary offices in Jersey, London, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands.    A full rebranding of Ohad is planned for later in 2017 to bring the business fully under the Crestbridge brand.   Ohad was the first licensed provider of trust services in Bahrain when in

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