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After a long string of redemptions, eVestment has reported positive sentiment in the hedge fund industry this month, with hedge funds netting an estimated USD7.9 billion in inflows in February.
As a result, flows are now positive year-to date in 2017.
The industry had endured net outflows in each of the last five months, and seven of the last eight, prior to February’s net inflows. Total industry AUM now sits at USD3.085 trillion, highest since July 2015.
eVestment’s Hedge Fund Industry Asset Flow Report for February also reveals that investors are showing mixed signals toward regional EM strategies.
- 24/03/2017
Quantopian, the free online platform for education and creation of institutional-quality investment algorithms, has hired Leslie Baccini as director of investor relations.
Baccini (pictured) comes to Quantopian with a background in hedge fund strategy communication and equity research sales.
“Leslie has a proven track record of success with investors,” says John Fawcett, founder and CEO of Quantopian. “As we prepare to manage external capital later this year, her skills will be critical in communicating with those investors who choose Quantopian to manage their money with the best of our crowd-sourced investment algorithms.”
Baccini joins Quantopian from The Boston
- 24/03/2017
Venture capital fund Suir Valley Ventures, which was launched in partnership with Shard Capital Partners in February 2017, has made its first investment in Immersive VR Education (IVRE), a developer of virtual reality (VR) software and immersive experiences with a specific focus on education.
Suir, together with Kernel through the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds and Enterprise Ireland, have invested a combined total of EUR1 million in IVRE.
A spin-out from WIT's research-based Telecoms Software and Systems Group (TSSG), IVRE’s platform provides virtual reality content that can be used in schools, colleges, universities, research centres and corporate
- 23/03/2017
Venture capital fund Suir Valley Ventures, which was launched in partnership with Shard Capital Partners in February 2017, has made its first investment in Immersive VR Education (IVRE), a developer of virtual reality (VR) software and immersive experiences with a specific focus on education.
Suir, together with Kernel through the Bank of Ireland Kernel Capital Venture Funds and Enterprise Ireland, have invested a combined total of EUR1 million in IVRE.
A spin-out from WIT's research-based Telecoms Software and Systems Group (TSSG), IVRE’s platform provides virtual reality content that can be used in schools, colleges, universities, research centres and corporate
- 23/03/2017
Deutsche Börse will be offering a new market data feed, CEF ultra+ Xetra Order by Order.
The new feed will provide insight into the entire visible Xetra order book with unlimited order book depth.
Market Data + Services designed the high-performance data feed for market participants requiring the highest data throughput possible at lowest latency.
The information product, Xetra Order by Order, contains most granular market data for all trading instruments.
“We developed CEF ultra+ Xetra Order by Order for our algo trading community whose strategies and computer-aided processes are based on speed and the completeness of
- 23/03/2017
The California Alternative Investments Association (CalALTs), whose members include alternative asset managers, investors and service providers in California, has issued a white paper on best practices for hedge fund and private equity operations.
Operational due diligence has played a more pivotal role in the hedge funds and private equity firms as the alternative investment industry has developed over the past 10 years.
The white paper, which was developed by the CalALTS Best Practices Committee, seeks to outline crucial operational best practices for the industry.
Areas of focus include: general operational best practices including internal staffing; portfolio valuation best
- 23/03/2017
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), ICI and SIFMA, on behalf of the T+2 Industry Steering Committee (T+2 ISC), has commended the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for finalising rule changes that facilitate the industry’s transformational effort to achieve a two-day settlement cycle (T+2).
The revised SEC rule establishes a standard settlement timeframe of two days for U.S. equity, corporate and municipal bond, and unit investment trust (UIT) trades, providing regulatory certainty to promote a coordinated and effective industry transition to T+2 on 5 September 2017.
Shortening the time it takes to settle trades from the current
- 23/03/2017
Ullink, a provider of electronic trading and connectivity solutions, has launched a MiFID II compliant trade reporting solution to help its clients meet regulatory requirements for greater accuracy in reporting and timeliness of data collection.
Trade reporting reform is a core component of MiFID II. Under the new rules, details of all trades in eligible financial instruments (both equity and non-equity) need to be published to market participants in as close to real time as possible. In practice, for some instruments this means no later than one minute after the trade.
This move is posing significant challenges for market
- 23/03/2017
Global investment manager Nuveen is expanding its alternative investments business development capabilities with the hire of James Wing and Michael Welch.
Joining in newly created roles, the pair will partner with the broader Nuveen distribution team to place new private funds onto the investment platforms of wealth managers serving retail and high-net-worth investors.
Based in Chicago and San Francisco, respectively, Wing and Welch will bolster the firm’s growing alternative investment distribution capabilities and report to Bill Stout (pictured), head of business development for Nuveen’s alternative investments platform.
Wing and Welch will both serve as managing directors working with
- 22/03/2017
BRI Partners has launched the first in a new range of investable hedge fund indices designed to deliver the beta of hedge fund strategies – the BRI Long/Short Equity Index (BRILSE), calculated by Wilshire Associates.
BRI Partners has developed eight indices in total which will be rolled out over the coming months.
Unlike existing hedge fund indexes, the BRI Indexes do not measure the performance of hedge fund managers and, therefore, do not rely on managers to provide a snapshot of month-end results. Decades of economic and academic research are the foundation for each BRI Index, which are built
- 22/03/2017
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