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Twelve-years old CitySavvy specialises in creating communications programmes for asset management sector firms and financial institutions. "Our core expertise is international media relations programmes and profile raising for clients via thought leadership, engagement with business and media outlets, conference participation and so on," comments Henrietta Hirst, Managing Director of CitySavvy.
"We also do issues management and response, reputation management, fund launches and investor marketing, which we have been very busy with over the last 12 months. This includes production of pitch books, fund factsheets, and helping clients prepare ahead of investor roadshows."
CitySavvy has a wide range of clients that
- 06/04/2017
Established in 2013, New York-based Wavelength Capital Management is an independent investment management firm specialising in liquid, transparent, and cost-effective investment solutions designed to preserve assets and produce returns in any economic environment.
"We focus on research-driven, insights powered by technology," says Mark Landis (pictured), who co-founded Wavelength with Andrew Dassori. "We invest using a systematic approach that applies quantitative tools to process fundamental economic and market information. We seek to empower our clients through transparency in what we do, sharing our thought leadership, and our mission is to deliver the best balance of risk and return for their financial
- 06/04/2017
ACA Aponix, a division of ACA Compliance Group, provides financial services firms with a 360-degree, independent approach to technology risk and governance. The ACA Aponix team conducts comprehensive risk assessments to help fund managers identify potential gaps and vulnerabilities in their information security framework in order to mitigate associated risks to their business.
At a high level, the ACA Aponix product offering involves performing risk assessments, mock audits, vendor due diligence, network penetration testing (both internal and external), training (which includes phishing exercises), tabletop exercises, and helping clients produce a Written Information Security Programme (WISP).
Vendor risk is one of the biggest concerns of
- 06/04/2017
Cowen Prime Services LLC continues to attract established institutional-quality hedge fund managers as well as start-ups and emerging managers. This is thanks to its ability to provide managers with the financial stability of a large bank as the counterparty in tandem with a service offering that provides tailored solutions.
Cowen Prime’s clients can choose to use outsourced middle-and back-office support as well as outsourced trading to limit their infrastructure spend, and when one factors in that all the usual prime brokerage services – trade execution and clearing, securities lending, financing, research and capital introduction – are also part of the
- 06/04/2017
DMS Governance Ltd (DMS) is the worldwide leader in fund governance with more than 225 professionals representing leading investment funds with assets under management exceeding USD330 billion.
DMS delivers high quality Fund Governance, International Tax Compliance, AIFMD, UCITS, MiFID, Banking, Custody, Trust, Corporate and Outsourcing solutions across a diverse range of investment fund structures and strategies.
"We've just had our third anniversary as a management company in Europe. We've been fully authorised as an AIFM and a UCITS management company since 2014 and we've enjoyed core growth in that business, with a good mix of client names and a corresponding
- 06/04/2017
Hathersage Capital Management LLC is a discretionary global macro investment manager founded in 1991. The firm is a foreign exchange specialist, expressing its global macro views strictly in G10 currencies, using interbank spot, forwards and vanilla options.
The portfolio management team at Hathersage has a wealth of experience in the foreign exchange markets. Members of the team have been managing substantial FX-only portfolios for more than three decades. The team combines that experience with its knowledge of options pricing and options trading in structuring a portfolio of directional exposures based upon fundamental macroeconomic analysis.
In today's marketplace, investors have begun to
- 06/04/2017
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
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