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The outlook for raising funds in the post-Brexit environment is the focus of a Guernsey funds masterclass to be held in London next year.
The event, which takes place at etc.venues in St Pauls on 8 February, will feature a panel debate among leading figures from the funds industry and a keynote speech from public affairs consultant Louise Harvey OBE MVO, who spent 13 years as a British diplomat working on EU issues in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Harvey’s presentation will focus on the process of triggering and implementing Brexit, the negotiations that will entail and the political
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Confluence predicts that the rise of regulatory technology (RegTech) in 2017 will trigger a transformation of the asset management back office, with improved data management and technology solutions delivering operating model improvements through automation.
A subset of FinTech, RegTech consists of technologies proven to facilitate the delivery of regulatory requirements faster and more cost-effectively than existing capabilities.
For asset managers, RegTech will be particularly meaningful in solving complex regulatory data management challenges and complying with condensed reporting cycles, Confluence says.
“Next year will be a pivotal year in the future of the asset management industry,” says Todd Moyer
- 16/12/2016
Quantopian, a free online platform for the education and creation of institutional-quality investment algorithms, has hired Marc Volpe as chief financial officer (CFO).
Volpe has an extensive background in hedge funds, accounting, compliance, strategic planning, and risk management.
"Marc is joining us as we prepare to manage external capital in early 2017," says John Fawcett, founder and CEO of Quantopian. "Marc's skills and background will help us in our efforts to provide the highest returns that we can for our investors, and through those returns, a growing stream of payments to selected algorithm authors from our community."
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The Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW) has published the latest portfolio of its socially responsible Respect Index.
Following a review carried out by Deloitte, the index portfolio in its 10th edition has 25 participating companies, including four new members: Fabryki Mebli Forte, PCC Rokita, Bank Pekao, and Trakcja PRKiI.
This year’s number of new members is the highest ever.
“The Respect Index is the first social responsibility index in Central and Eastern Europe,” says Małgorzata Zaleska (pictured), president of the management board of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. “This year’s 10th edition includes 25 participating companies which follow the highest
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Och-Ziff Capital Management Group has closed its first European collateralised loan obligation (CLO) transaction, OZLME, totalling approximately EUR413 million.
The CLO, arranged by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, will be managed through Och-Ziff's affiliate, Och-Ziff Europe Loan Management, and will invest predominantly in broadly syndicated senior secured loans.
"We are very pleased to announce the closing of our first European CLO," says Adeel Shafiqullah, managing director and senior portfolio manager of institutional credit strategies in Europe. "We have a deep, experienced team of credit investment professionals in Europe with significant and broad expertise investing and managing CLO portfolios. This
- 16/12/2016
North America-focused hedge funds recovered from a 0.69 per cent loss in October to post returns of 2.89 per cent in November, the best performance of any region.
This takes North America funds’ 2016 YTD performance to 9.09 per cent, also the highest of any region.
By contrast, Europe-focused hedge funds posted smaller gains of 0.09 per cent in November, while Asia-Pacific funds suffered losses of 0.47 per cent, taking YTD performance to 1.07 per cent and 1.88 per cent respectively for the two regions.
Overall, November saw positive performance across the hedge fund industry; the Preqin All-Strategies
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Hedge fund launches declined in the third quarter, as funds again posted steady gains following the Brexit vote and leading into the surprise US Presidential election results.
New launches totalled 170 in Q3 2016, down from 200 in the prior quarter and 269 in Q315, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Report.
The number of launches in Q3 2016 represents lowest since Q1 2009 and marks the fourth consecutive quarter of net contraction in the overall number of active funds. A total of 576 funds have launched in the first three quarters of 2016, a decline of over
- 16/12/2016
Investment management platform provider TORA has launched a multi-asset charting technology powered by ChartIQ.
The fully integrated tool, which supplements TORA’s existing charting technology, provides an intuitive charting platform featuring a full suite of drawing tools and technical indicators.
Combining real-time streaming market data with an HTML5-based architecture, the charting tools enable analysis of equities, derivatives and FX instruments in a fully customisable manner. Developed with an optimised trading workflow in mind, the new tool allows users to trade directly from charts and plot fills against real-time market data.
Oren Blonstein (pictured), global head of product at TORA,
- 15/12/2016
The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) has appointed Luke Ellis, CEO of Man Group, and Henry Kenner, CEO and founder of Arrowgrass Capital Partners, to its board.
The appointments come at a time when the HFSB is seeing global growth in the managers and institutional investors supporting the Hedge Fund Standards.
In 2016, 19 additional managers became signatories to the Standards. Also in 2016, six additional institutional investors overseeing USD220 billion in capital joined the HFSB Investor Chapter.
The HFSB is forming a working group on liquid alternatives. Given the growth in regulated alternative investment funds in the
- 15/12/2016
100 Women in Hedge Funds has launched a new brand and formally changed its name to 100 Women in Finance.
The organisation says the change reflects its growth over the past 15 years from a small group of women working in the hedge fund industry in New York to a global network of more than 15,000 professionals across the finance and alternative investment industries.
As part of the new brand refresh, 100 Women in Finance unveiled a new logo and visual identity system and introduced a redesigned website, accessible at www.100women.org.
"100 Women was among the first organisations
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