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Financial regulations are driving market participants from an over the counter (OTC) market structure to an exchange-listed environment, shaping where investors search for instruments to manage exposure. That’s according to new research by TABB Group, “Eurex Derivatives Markets: Renewed Growth as Sector Demand Emerges," which examines investors’ interest in trading European derivatives, with a particular focus on the growth in trading on Eurex’s STOXX Europe 600 (SXXP) and EURO STOXX (SXXE) sector indices. The research also examines use cases for these derivatives.   “Listed derivatives volumes in EMEA markets, especially in futures, have stayed strong amid volatility events resulting from
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index measured 1.53 per cent for the month of November. Hedge fund flows, meanwhile, as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.24 per cent in December.   "SS&C GlobeOp's Capital Movement Index was positive for December 2016, rising 0.24 per cent, indicating net flows into hedge funds," says Bill Stone (pictured), chairman and chief executive officer, SS&C Technologies. "This increase was somewhat less than the same period a year ago when December 2015 produced 0.75 per cent.   “The smaller net increase for December 2016 reflects lower
Maria João Carioca, chief executive of Euronext Lisbon and member of the managing board of Euronext, has resigned after being asked by the Government of Portugal to join the management board of Caixa Geral de Depósitos. She has accepted the offer, pending all regulatory approvals by the relevant authorities.    “We are very proud that Maria João has been selected to serve her country in this new role. Meanwhile, Euronext is committed to continuing to invest in Portugal where it is expanding its IT centre in Porto which should amount to 120 people by the end of the year. We will
Charles River Development has signed an agreement with CenturyLink, opening up its software-as-a-service offerings to buy-side clients in Canada. "We've been broadening our hosted services since 2005, and the addition of CenturyLink's on-the-ground facilities and support assures even more clients that we can process and protect their sensitive data," says Tom Driscoll (pictured), global managing director, Charles River. "Our newest functionality in the Charles River investment management solution is SaaS-based. Our agreement with CenturyLink lets clients take full advantage of hosted capabilities regardless of their location."      Charles River's fully managed, private cloud solution is ISO 27001 certified and helps
Linedata has integrated its order management system (OMS) powered by Longview, with Integral Development Corp’s InvestorFX. Linedata’s OMS solution delivers an integrated approach to meeting the needs of the front and middle office of institutional, wealth and alternative firms, including portfolio management, trading, compliance and risk.   InvestorFX is an FX trading platform, combining best execution, optimal netting plans and fairness of allocations for investment managers to execute FX trade lists.   “We are pleased to partner with Linedata, which delivers flexible and comprehensive asset management solutions to global institutional and alternative communities,” says Harpal Sandhu, CEO, Integral Development Corp.
By David Young (pictured), President, Gemini Alternative Funds – Allocations to alternative investment strategies have continued to evolve as asset owners – in particular pensions, endowments and family offices – have become more knowledgeable about, and comfortable with, these strategies.  Direct investments into hedge funds, funds of hedge funds and alternative mutual funds are not meeting the increasingly complex needs of today’s institutional investors, where flexibility, tailored reporting, transparency and cost efficiency are key factors.  Today, asset owners are searching for the appropriate structure and relationships that will provide them with the services and controls that meet their individual, committee
Managed account platforms (MAPs) vary in size and sophistication. At one end of the spectrum, the simplest MAP provides a separate ownership structure whereby a single investor invested in a MAP is required to manage each counterparty relationship with the administrator, the prime broker(s), OTC counterparties, FX counterparties, repo counterparties and so on.  The traditional fund of funds (FoF) investment model is structured so that the FoF manages the overall allocations into the hedge fund on behalf of the investor. However, transparency tends only to be provided on a monthly basis, and typically with a one-month lag.  In some cases,
Managed account platforms allow institutions to broaden out their hedge fund allocations and invest in emerging managers with confidence, thanks to the strong operational controls they provide. At a time when some of the larger established names have suffered performance issues, diversifying into a wider mix of unknown managers is becoming of strategic import to institutions. Speaking recently at a New York Hedge Fund Roundtable event, Robert Akeson, COO of Daewoo Securities (and the event moderator) was quoted as saying that small and emerging hedge fund managers, as a group, consistently outperform other managers. “However, as the physicists like to
Linear Investments allows emerging managers to leverage its managed account platform, enabling them to utilise multiple managed accounts, and avoid having to go down the costly route of setting up a hedge fund on day one.  “At this date, Linear has 105 active hedge fund/managed account prime brokerage clients live. Over the past three months we have brought on 10 new clients; five prime brokerage, one managed account and four hedge funds. We are actively in discussion with 12 new clients (two thirds based in the UK) who are thinking of joining the Linear platform, in addition to several early
Large institutions face a Catch 22 when it comes to investing in hedge funds. On the one hand, despite performance having been muted for the last few years, institutions still broadly appreciate their importance as part of a diversified portfolio. On the other hand, negative media coverage that continuously compares hedge fund performance to the broader markets, not to mention continued questioning over exorbitant fees, means that institutions face external pressures to justify their allocations. “What is interesting is that the major flows into hedge funds really seem to be driven by the super institutions such as public and private

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