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The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.59 per cent in January, outperforming the 0.50 per cent monthly return for the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index.  The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index family is a joint offering between Wilshire Funds Management, the global investment management business unit of Wilshire Associates Incorporated, and Wilshire Analytics, creator of the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index.   “Due to the perceived optimism that Trump and the Republican party bring to the economy, credit managers in both relative value and event driven strategies
Blockchain will become adopted in the financial post-trade area in three to five years, according to almost half (48 per cent) of the membership base of the Post-Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group.  In addition, just over a quarter (29 per cent) of members believe blockchain will become adopted in as little as the next one to two years, though 21 per cent forecast it will take in excess of five years. The survey of PTDL’s global membership found that the top three benefits of distributed ledger technology will be operational cost savings (cited by 81 per cent), increased efficiency/ reduced
Qineqt, a NYC based company that is building a foundational data architecture for investment managers, has added another Senior Data Architect to its Executive Team. John Budnik (pictured) joined Qineqt this week to lead Delivery Architecture and Data Analytics products, bringing 37 years of data and engineering experience to the senior leadership team. Budnik was most recently VP, Professional Services & Senior Software Engineer at Dataminr, where he played a key role as technical liaison between product and customers in the development of Dataminr’s graph architecture. As a member of Dataminr’s original executive team, Budnik was the lead architect of the
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for January 2017 measured 1.71 per cent. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.45% in February. "SS&C GlobeOp's Capital Movement Index for February 2017 of 0.45% reflects an increase in capital allocated to hedge funds, although at a slightly lower rate than the 0.59% increase reported in February 2016," says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “Outflows actually decreased in the year-over-year comparison, but this was offset by lower inflows. Overall, we are seeing fairly subdued activity in
Invast Global has appointed industry veterans Andrew Pal (pictured) and Cassandra Lister as specialist consultants, further strengthening the firm’s Asian PB and Liquidity offering. With a distinguished, twenty-year career at UBS under his belt, most notably as the Executive Director & CEO of UBS Futures Singapore, Andrew Pal brings a particular expertise in the changing global regulatory environment and the opportunities afforded within the prime services space as regulatory reforms progress. Pal says: ‘‘I am looking forward to working with Invast Global at such an exciting time in the evolution of the prime brokerage landscape and especially, the growth of
Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team has focused on the performance of value equity funds versus their benchmarks in this week’s report, commenting that value stocks have lost steam but active managers are staying afloat. The firm writes that value stocks have lost steam in early 2017 as market exuberance faded and investors reappraised the risks of trade wars. “The renewed underperformance of value stocks has taken many investors by surprise as it follows a sharp rebound in the last quarter of 2016. The January reversal has been particularly abrupt in the U.S. The MSCI USA Value underperformed the market by
Arendt Regulatory & Consulting has selected Confluence’s Unity NXT Regulatory Reporting AIFMD Transparency Reporting to support their clients with AIFMD reporting challenges. Unity NXT Regulatory Reporting AIFMD Transparency Reporting is a software service that simplifies and streamlines the AIFMD regulatory filing lifecycle for asset managers and their service providers. With over 400 data points to be collected from a variety of internal and third-party systems, the AIFMD Transparency Report is especially challenging. Unity NXT Regulatory Reporting AIFMD Transparency Reporting offers clients a way to gain control over this complex undertaking. The solution provides a truly collaborative environment for producing the
Matthew Ridley from the University of Oxford has been awarded first place and a cash prize of GBP5,000 in the second Man AHL Coder Prize, a competition for students aged 16-25.  Junjin Chen from the University of Sheffield placed second and Eddie Rolls from the University of Oxford placed third, with each awarded cash prizes of GBP2,000 and GBP1,000, respectively. In the newly-introduced under-18 category, the top performer, Ethan Wood from Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, was awarded a cash prize of GBP1,000.   Entrants for this year’s competition ranged in age from 16 to 25 and spanned the educational spectrum
The Alternative UCITS market keeps showing strong growth with LuxHedge recording net inflows of EUR5.2 billion in assets under management in January. The strongest rise occurred in Fixed Income Arbitrage (EUR2.8 billion), Global Macro (EUR0.9 billion) and Multi-Strategy (EUR0.8 billion) funds. The relatively smaller segment of Volatility Arbitrage funds was the only one to show a declining AUM in January: -EUR0.4 billion. The LuxHedge Alternative UCITS indices held up well across almost all strategy styles with the LuxHedge Global Alternative UCITS Index increasing 0.25 per cent during January 2017. The largest gain was recorded by the Event Driven funds as measured by the
In the face of more than USD100 billion in investor redemptions in 2016, hedge funds continue to perform surprisingly well out of the gate in 2017, according to eVestment's January 2017 Hedge Fund Performance Report.  The industry started off 2017 with an average +1.16 per cent, with more than 70 per cent of hedge funds reporting positive results for the first month of the year.   In fact, despite some disappointing performance in a few hedge fund segments, industry results show the importance of using data and market insight to pick the right hedge funds and the importance of hedge

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