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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,
- 06/04/2017
Another year, another fantastic awards event. The Reform Club Library, venue of the 2017 Hedgeweek Global Awards, was full of optimism and a palpable sense of excitement at what the year could bring. Of course, there are significant forces of change that hedge funds need to navigate, not least of which is MiFID II, which comes into play next January. But as global monetary policy shows signs of divergence, and markets return to fundamentals, the environment for seeking out alpha is improving.
On the regulatory side, working with the right partner to navigate MiFID II and countless other regulatory compliance
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MUFG Investor Services, the global asset servicing arm of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, has appointed Joe Latini as executive director of relationship management.
Latini (pictured) will be responsible for managing relationships with existing clients across MUFG Investor Services’ alternative asset servicing platform.
He will work alongside the current relationship management team to develop clients’ strategy and ensure they receive the highest level of service throughout the investment cycle.
Formerly a director of US sales at ENSO Financial Analytics, Latini brings over 18 years of experience from business development roles in the investment industry.
Prior to ENSO, Latini
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Alternative fund managers who wish to avoid the limitations of running ’40 Act mutual funds, and the risks that come with having to constantly provide daily liquidity, are turning their attention to closed-end interval funds. UMB Fund Services has a decade of experience providing turnkey solutions for managers looking for an elegant route to market.
Although not a new product innovation, interval funds and registered hedge funds offer fund managers the ability to control redemptions and deliver returns that allow illiquidity premia to be more fully realised. The only difference between the two is that the former has a daily
- 06/04/2017
Quantopian, the investment management firm that provides a free online platform to write investment algorithms, has made allocations of tens of millions of dollars to some of the best of its crowd-sourced algorithms.
The allocations range from USD100,000 to USD3 million per algorithm. These are the first allocations made with external money being managed by Quantopian.
The members of the Quantopian community receiving allocations live on five continents and in eight countries, including Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, India, Spain, and the US. They come from many walks of life, including data science, finance, engineering, software development, and academia.
- 06/04/2017
Street Contxt, a fintech company that helps brokerages, independent research providers and asset managers distribute, manage, unbundle and value research, has secured an investment by a funding consortium led by existing investor Joe Lonsdale of 8VC and including Point72 Ventures.
The round also includes substantial contributions from Palm Drive Capital, a New York-based VC firm that helps build strategic relationships in the Greater China Region; Portag3 Ventures, a member of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies; and other unnamed funds and industry veterans, which brings total funding raised to date to USD15 million.
Additional institutional participants in
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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
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