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Law firm K&L Gates has appointed Michael T Dyson as a partner in the government enforcement practice of its Washington DC office.
Dyson joins K&L Gates from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the self-regulatory organisation dedicated to investor protection and market integrity through effective and efficient regulation of broker-dealers.
Dyson has nearly 20 years of public and private sector regulatory and enforcement experience with a concentration on complex civil and white-collar criminal litigation and domestic and international arbitration in industry sectors such as securities, internal investigations, real estate, construction, labour and employment, antitrust, professional liability, product liability, and technology.
- 06/01/2017
Liquid real asset specialist firm Cohen & Steers has launched an active commodity fund, offering investors broad and diversified exposure to commodities through an active, long-biased investment approach based on rigorous fundamental research.
The Cohen & Steers Active Commodities Fund is a newly launched sub-fund of an Irish Collective Asset Management Vehicle (ICAV) authorized as a Qualifying Investor Alternative Investment Fund (QIAIF). The fund will maintain exposure to a diversified range of commodities, primarily in global exchange traded futures contracts from all commodity sectors including energy, industrial metals, agriculture, livestock and precious metals.
The fund is managed by Cohen &
- 05/01/2017
- 05/01/2017
Vivaris Capital has created what it says is the first private equity hedge fund, which is designed to deliver superior alternative asset returns while mitigating downside risk.
The structure deployed by Vivaris uses a portfolio of investment grade securities to diversify risk and to provide liquidity.
The investment strategy targets middle-market, well-established companies and late-stage technology businesses that are at an inflection point and poised for growth. Capital and aggressive management then drive product, sales and market expansion.
The fund also invests in and acquires value-added residential and commercial real estate developments where renovations and marketing can lead
- 05/01/2017
Greenstone Equity Partners, a fund placement firm based in the Middle East, has hired Sean Kearney as chief operating officer and Khalid Alkelabi as managing director, investor relationships.
Kearney (pictured) is an emerging markets banking professional with a 23-year career devoted to identifying and managing risk. His key responsibilities will include operations team leadership, lead-managing the implementation of internal control framework enhancements, running regulatory processes and overseeing strategic change management.
Prior to joining Greenstone, Kearney worked for a decade at UBS in London and Dubai. In his last position with the firm as group COO, Middle East and North
- 05/01/2017
- 05/01/2017
Boutique asset manager 361 Capital has launched the 361 US Small Cap Equity Fund, which is designed for investors who are looking for opportunities to boost their returns through small cap exposure.
Stemming from 30 years of research, the fund’s approach is based on a quantitative process that seeks to take advantage of earnings estimate revisions by investment analysts.
The strategy was launched nine years ago and was previously only available through institutional separate accounts.
The fund is managed by 361’s co-chief investment officer John Riddle (pictured) and managing director and portfolio manager Mark Jaeger.
“This is
- 05/01/2017
The relationship that broker-dealers and registered investment advisors have with pension investors is set to be turned on its head on 10 April 2017 when the Department of Labor introduces the DOL Fiduciary Rule.
In short, what this means is that brokers and advisors will have to demonstrate that they are acting in their clients’ best interests at all times. This may sound surprising to some but as CNBC highlighted in a recent article, the White House Council of Economic Advisers estimates that conflicts of interest by investment advisors leads to USD17 billion in lost income every year for most
- 04/01/2017
Five out of six of MV Index Solutions’ (MVIS) investable long/short equity indices recorded a positive performance in December.
Each index is constructed using transparent, liquid ETFs and US Treasury securities to produce hedge fund-style returns without hedge fund pricing, opaqueness and redemption restrictions.
The MVIS North America Long/Short Equity Index led the way with a return of 1.45 per cent.
This was followed by the MVIS Asia (Developed) Long/Short Equity Index (1.34 per cent), the MVIS Western Europe Long/Short Equity Index (0.54 per cent, the MVIS Emerging Markets Long/Short Equity Index (0.49 per cent); and the MVIS
- 04/01/2017
Peter Brown has been appointed head of funds at RBS International to drive the expansion of the bank’s offering to the alternative funds sector.
Brown (pictured) has more than 25 years’ experience in corporate and institutional banking, and most recently headed up the RBS Financial Institutions Group in the UK, which included the RBS funds banking business in London.
Prior to that, he was one of the founding members of the RBS mid-market leveraged finance business, delivering multi-million-pound buyout transactions alongside key private equity sponsors.
Brown now leads a funds banking team that supports more than 1,000 fund
- 04/01/2017
- 04/01/2017
Dash Financial is to merge with LiquidPoint to create a new trading technology solutions provider focused on the options and equities markets.
Dash Financial is an institutional trading technology, execution and analytics provider, while LiquidPoint is a provider of options technology and routing services to the sell-side and exchange communities.
Private equity firm GTCR will be contributing LiquidPoint from portfolio company Convergex to merge it with Dash.
The combined entity will operate as Dash Financial Technologies and be majority owned by GTCR. It will have a 13 per cent market share in the US options agency execution space. The independent
- 04/01/2017
The pace of technological change is unrelenting. The Internet of Things and the rise of the gig economy are changing the way that businesses and consumers interact with each other. It is therefore incumbent upon the asset management industry to embrace technological change and reimagine what is a tried and tested business model. More than ever, fund managers are having to innovate to operate more efficiently, more transparently, and in closer harmony with their end investors.
As this report will show, there are five disruptive technological trends (as defined by five key companies) today that have, over recent years, prompted global
- 04/01/2017
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