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Boutique asset manager Unigestion has launched Uni-Global – Alternative Risk Premia, an actively managed strategy to provide investors with cost-effective and liquid sources of returns modestly correlated to equity and bond returns.
It complements Unigestion’s existing line of direct alternative offers, including the Uni-Global – Cross Asset Trend Follower, Uni-Global – Alternative Equities Compass World, the Unigestion Long/Short Global Opportunities fund and the Uni-Global – Absolute Return.
The launch of this strategy addresses three major concerns for investors and the asset management industry.
Firstly, expected returns for traditional investments are not very attractive, as bond yields remain at
- 28/02/2017
GAM has appointed Matthew Beesley as head of equities.
Beesley, former head of global equities at Henderson, will work with all of the GAM equity teams to optimise performance and risk management, ensure strong links with sales, marketing and operations and also drive information collaboration across teams.
Beesley has more than 19 years of investment experience. He starts on 6 March 2017 and will be based in London.
GAM fund managers benefit from the freedom to follow their own investment philosophy and processes, with active conviction investment styles that are not wedded to benchmarks.
Group CEO Alexander
- 28/02/2017
- 28/02/2017
Enstar Group has appointed Jie Liu to its board of directors, effective 21 February 2017.
Liu is a managing director of Hillhouse Capital Management and has been with the company since 2015.
Prior to joining Hillhouse, he was head of credit and a senior portfolio manager for Sentry Investments, a Canadian asset manager, for over five years.
Liu has also served as a fixed income research analyst at RBC Capital Markets and a credit rating specialist at Standard & Poor’s.
Dominic Silvester, Enstar’s chief executive officer, says: “We have worked alongside Jie in recent months as Hillhouse
- 28/02/2017
- 28/02/2017
INTL FCStone’s precious metals division has launched a physical gold trading platform, PMXecute+.
PMXecute+ allows customers access to INTL's entire global inventory and network of supply partners, helping them find the best offers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Customers who do not see offers meeting their specific requirements (regarding quantity, specification or location) can use the platform's Request for Quote function, which notifies all relevant suppliers around the world.
Suppliers can anonymously create firm or indicative offers (premium, location, expiry date) on the platform for all customers to view and, if they like what they see,
- 28/02/2017
UK hedge fund manager Crispin Odey will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Guernsey Funds Forum.
The founding partner of Odey Asset Management will top the bill for the annual event, which this year is titled “Real funds and real money in a post-truth world”.
It takes place on 11 May at etc. venues, 155 Bishopsgate in London.
Guernsey Finance chief executive Dominic Wheatley says Odey will add gravitas and context to the event.
“Crispin is one of London’s best known hedge-fund managers and his wealth of knowledge and experience is sure to bring a fascinating
- 28/02/2017
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has completed a proof-of-concept to better manage the netting process for US Treasury and Agency repurchase agreement (repo) transactions leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT).
Working with Digital Asset, a developer of DLT solutions for financial institutions, the two companies have demonstrated for the first time the successful netting of “start” leg repo transactions with prior end-of-day net securities obligations in the DTCC environment.
With phase one now complete, DTCC and Digital Asset have progressed to phase two where they will form a stakeholder working group comprised of leading market participants active in
- 28/02/2017
Rayne Capital Management has added two senior partners to the company's executive and portfolio management team.
Mitchell Molloy will join as managing partner and David Szybunka will become lead portfolio manager for Rayne Energy, each subject to the receipt of required regulatory approvals.
Molloy and Szybunka will both oversee the Rayne Energy mandate, a long/short absolute return-focused strategy that leverages Rayne Capital's local presence and expertise in the Canadian oil and gas sector.
"We are very pleased to have both Mitch and David joining the team as we move forward with the next stage of growth
- 28/02/2017
Interdealer broker Tradition has delivered an initial margin optimisation in FX, after extending its partnership with LMRKTS, a compression and analytics provider.
Tradition and LMRKTS announced a strategic partnership in 2016 to handle execution and compression processing for G10 FX Forwards. Earlier this month, the two firms completed a SIMM optimisation for NDFs with a group of Tradition’s clients.
Borrowing from the operational processes of their G10 Cash RWA and Leverage Reduction services, the live run incorporated exposure data from four banks, with the entire operational process, resulting in the processing of 132 sides of trades, being completed
- 28/02/2017
Lyxor reports that risk assets have continued to edge higher over the recent weeks, with the MSCI World reaching new highs last week. Yet, equities in developed markets have been essentially fuelled by the US market, the firm says.
The S&P 500 (price index) is now up 5.7 per cent year to date (almost 45 per cent annualised) with a significant part of such returns having been achieved since 9 February, when the President promised a ‘phenomenal’ tax plan. The rally has pushed valuations further into stretched territory. Based on Factset earnings estimates, the Forward 12-Month P/E now stands at
- 27/02/2017
- 27/02/2017
Insch Capital Management has launched the Gold Income Actively Managed Certificates (AMC) powered by Insch’s award-winning Kintore (Bidirectional Gold) strategy.
The firm writes that the investment objective of the Gold Income version of the Insch Kintore strategy is to generate high income distributions regardless of interest rates in both favourable and unfavourable bond market conditions, by employing an actively managed approach trading gold either long or short vs. the G7 currencies: Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, Euro, Japanese yen, GBP sterling, Swiss franc, US dollar.
The Certificates are open-ended and will offer daily liquidity via ISIN DE000HU89R51. They will be listed
- 27/02/2017
- 27/02/2017
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