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HedgeMark, a BNY Mellon Company, is regarded as a pure play dedicated managed account provider, in that HedgeMark assists clients in setting up and operating their own private managed account platforms.
The HedgeMark DMA model, explains HedgeMark CEO Andrew Lapkin (pictured), is to empower the investor to select the managers that it wants on its DMA platform. "The fund selection and due diligence functions are performed by the investor or its advisor and we then coordinate the onboarding of the manager including coordinating the process of negotiation of the investment management, Prime Broker, FCM and ISDA counterparty agreements and continue
- 06/04/2017
Sydney-based Invast Global is a subsidiary of Japanese listed Invast Securities Co Ltd. Employing a prime-of-prime model, Invast leads the industry in the provision of multi-asset high-quality, non-bank Prime Services. It provides credit intermediation, access to liquidity (both OTC and exchange) and comprehensive trading platforms/API connectivity options.
"It has been an exciting and rewarding few years. Our business model has proved successful and we have benefitted significantly from the transformation seen in the prime services industry over that period," says Gavin White (pictured), CEO of Invast Global.
"2016 was a particularly satisfying year, with strong growth in demand from clients
- 06/04/2017
La Française Investment Solutions (LFIS) was founded in 2013 and has a clear value proposition for the marketplace: to recreate, operationally speaking, an investment bank in an asset management company.
"This is based on our unique DNA that combines asset management, with a focus on quantitative techniques and structured credit, and investment banking thanks to the strong experience of the team in capital markets," comments Arnaud Sarfati (pictured), co-Founder and Head of Business Development.
LFIS currently has USD6 billion in assets under management and is part of La Française Group, which had EUR60 billion in aggregate AUM at the end
- 06/04/2017
ML Capital, one of Ireland's leading management company groups, has grown to exceed USD3.2 billion of AUM over the last 12 months. Its growth trajectory has enabled ML Capital to evolve from being just a leading UCITS platform operator to become a fund solutions provider, servicing both managers and investors alike.
As Cyril Delamare (pictured), CEO of ML Capital explains, the firm offers two distribution services to investment managers, to best service clients.
The first of those services is active distribution. This, says Delamare, involves the active promotion of funds and managers on the MontLake UCITS platform to an extensive
- 06/04/2017
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
- 06/04/2017
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
- 06/04/2017
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
- 06/04/2017
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
- 06/04/2017
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
- 06/04/2017
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