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UCITS products are enjoying significant growth in Ireland as many fund managers look to establish these products to compliment their existing fund offering confirms Linda Gorman (pictured), CEO of Quintillion Limited, a European-based affiliate of US Bancorp Fund Services.
Over the last five years, Ireland has experienced an 81 percent growth in UCITS funds, which, according to the Central Bank of Ireland figures, as of 31 December 2016, total EUR1.578 trillion in AUM. UCITS currently account for approximately USD6 billion of US Bancorp's worldwide AuA of USD110 billion.
Ireland is now home to just over 4,000 UCITS funds, and with
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Tages Capital was founded in 2011 and has offices in London, Rome and Milan. Key executives at the firm include: Panfilo Tarantelli, Founding Partner; Jamie Kermisch, Partner and CEO; Salvatore Cordaro, Founding Partner and CIO; Sergio Ascolani, Founding Partner, and Umberto Quadrino, Partner and Chairman.
Since inception, the Group has grown to oversee USD9.6 billion of assets (as at end of 2016) with 140 staff. With approximately USD2.2 billion in alternative assets under management, over USD625 million has been deployed into seeding vehicles and opportunities.
Over the years, Tages has continuously evolved its business model launching many new funds and
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Iron Cove Partners (ICP) is a leading full-service national insurance brokerage firm serving the financial services industry. Headquartered in Garden City, Long Island, ICP is a trusted advisor with decades of experience and over 150 Hedge Funds as clients. ICP provides cutting edge brokerage and consulting services to some of the globes largest financial institutions.
The company provides the full spectrum of insurance products and services including Employee Benefits, Commercial Property and Casualty, Transactional Insurance as well as Private Client, Life Insurance and Estate Planning.
It specialises in meeting the unique insurance demands across all areas of the financial services industry
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Blue Diamond Asset Management is an independent privately owned company based in Pfaffikon, Switzerland. The team of four investment professionals and one COO has a singular focus on trading equity volatility.
Since the strategy launched on 30 September, 2011 it has generated a net annualised return of 21.34 per cent.
To demonstrate the robustness of the strategy, it has generated positive returns during both negative and positive S&P 500 months, showing low correlation to hedge funds and negative correlation to CTA indices.
"Last year the strategy returned 21.78 per cent net and we increased the AUM from USD150 million to USD400
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Pillar Capital Management (‘Pillar') was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bermuda. The firm manages open-ended Bermuda incorporated funds invested in the global property catastrophe risk market.
The senior management team at Pillar, headed up by CEO and CIO, Stephen Velotti (pictured), has an average of 25 years' experience in the insurance linked securities marketplace. Deal access is a critical element of any successful ILS manager. In that context, last year Pillar reviewed over 1,600 opportunities with an 87 per cent declination rate, with Velotti explaining that alpha is generated from judiciously selecting the best securities on such a
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Nedelma Inc is a software product solutions company. Its flagship product, The Portfolio Amalfi platform, offers multi-asset, multi-language, multi-currency dynamic reporting and data visualisation, as well as analytical capabilities to the asset management industry. Users can analyse and view data from multiple perspectives using a combination of attributes, formulas and values, with extensive options for dynamic customisation.
"Our management team has held senior positions at Goldman Sachs, UBS, GE Capital, Mitsubishi UFJ, Deutsche Bank and we apply our extensive expertise and firsthand knowledge to develop and enhance Nedelma's products," says Nedelma CEO, Michael Medvinsky.
"We saw a recurring set of
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With over 1,500 employees in international locations, over 250 employees and 40 partners dedicated to the financial services practice, EisnerAmper LLP has the breadth to handle global engagements and provide comprehensive guidance and support to its roster of hedge fund clients.
EisnerAmper currently services over 1,300 hedge funds and 200 private equity/venture capital sponsors. Whomever the client, the firm always strives to speak their language and avoid using technical accounting jargon.
A “clients first” approach is central to the EisnerAmper philosophy. It is often chosen both as an alternative to “Big 4” firms as well as a supplementary advisor to
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FIS is a global financial services technology company, with a focus on technology, consulting and outsourcing solutions. FIS serves more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries and employs more than 55,000 people worldwide. It is a Fortune 500 company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. Its cloud-based Hedge360 platform provides a full suite of technology capabilities to support managed accounts, from fund administrators through to platform providers and hedge fund managers.
“With respect to the hedge funds, we’ve certainly seen a rising demand from fund managers offering managed account versions of their strategies,” says Trevor Headley,
- 06/04/2017
Sadis & Goldberg LLP is one of New York's leading financial services focused law firms. Known both domestically and internationally as a dominant force in the financial services sector, Sadis & Goldberg serves clients throughout the world and was recently ranked as one of the top five law firms for hedge fund launches in the 2016 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report.
The Financial Services Group is headed up by partner Ron Geffner (pictured) and comprised of 15 attorneys that have each spent a significant amount of their career practicing in the private fund space, providing a compelling roster of seasoned legal
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London-based Quadra Capital Partners LLP was established in 2013 and became authorised by the FCA in 2014. An independent investment advisory firm, Quadra launched with a conviction that it could add real value in the liquid alternatives space, in particular to European institutional & family offices clients who prefer UCITS funds.
This led Quadra to establishing a SICAV UCITS platform in Luxembourg and saw the release of its first fund – Quadra Capital Global Equity Alpha – in August 2015; a UCITS V-compliant global long/short equity fund with a USD2 billion AUM capacity.
Guillaume Touze is CEO of Quadra Capital. Formerly,
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