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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
Alpine Global Master Fund, a long/short market-neutral hedge fund, has appointed Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) to provide hedge fund administration services and middle office outsourcing. The fund has a fundamental based quantitative investment methodology and is managed by BOCOM International Asset Management Limited, with Huatai-PineBridge Fund Management Co, Ltd. as the investment advisor. Managing Director of Alpine Global fund Liang Shi, says: “One of the main reasons we selected Northern Trust was its industry-leading robust technology and its experience in servicing complex offshore fund structures. Northern Trust provides the Fund with a unique solution that suits its needs, enabling the
Bats Global Markets has reported net income of USD32.5 million and adjusted earnings of USD38.5 million for the fourth quarter ended 31 December 2016. Net income increased 50 per cent and adjusted earnings rose 35 per cent compared to the same period in 2015, driven primarily by continued growth in non-transaction revenue, realisation of synergies from the Direct Edge acquisition and a lower effective tax rate in the fourth quarter 2016.   For the full year, Bats reported record net revenue of USD436 million, an increase of 13 per cent compared to 2015 and record net income of USD109 million,
Crabel Capital Management’s chief executive Michael Pomada will be discussing the appeal of quant funds at the Amsterdam Investor Forum on 8 March. Pomada says that when investors think about quant funds they group them together and assume they all do much the same.   Whilst other managers such as Two Sigma pursue a similar non-trend following approach to trading short-term market fluctuations, each quant fund pursues an individual approach.   This enables them to generate non-correlated returns.   “Last year was interesting where we were able to offer a diversification benefit despite the Newedge Short Term Traders Index finishing
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was slightly down by 0.3 per cent in January, with seven out of 10 Lyxor indices in positive territory, according to the latest Lyxor AII Barometer, with micro-focused strategies outperforming macro traders. Event driven delivered strong results on the back of buoyant M&A activity in the US and positive surprises in corporate earnings.   CTAs and macro managers suffered from the depreciation of the dollar.   “The Q4 earning season is seeing a material recovery in most regions and in a majority of sectors. However, trading volumes and stock returns following earnings report were moderate,

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