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According to Hedge Funds Research, hedge funds this year have experienced more than USD50 billion of net outflows, continuing a theme that began back in Q4 2015.
Prior to this, the industry had enjoyed a near constant quarter-on-quarter increase in net inflows, taking total industry assets beyond USD3 trillion. This year, it would appear institutions have taken pause for thought and questioned the value of their offshore hedge fund allocations.
By contrast, however, the alternative UCITS industry has continued to grow from strength to strength. According to Hedge Fund Research, this area of the market had USD200 billion in assets
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With investors concerned over the impact that a rising rate environment could have on their fixed income portfolios, the need to look for alternative solutions to hedge against, and even profit from, widening yields, is becoming paramount. James Williams (pictured) explores how alternative UCITS, which continue to enjoy positive inflows, are proving an appealing option to investors looking to diversify their investments.
In the last few years, investors have continued to pile into fixed income to enjoy the last drops of yield compression, which have moved perilously close to zero. US 10-year Treasuries fell as low as 1.38 per cent
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Craig Cordle, a specialist in investment funds, has joined Ogier as a group partner based in the Guernsey investment funds team.
Cordle (pictured), who comes to Ogier from a major international London firm, is the third new member of the firm's partnership since August, and brings the size of the global partnership to 53.
The growth of the Guernsey investment funds team reflects Ogier's confidence in the sector – the most recent figures showed that the net value of funds under management and administration in Guernsey had reached nearly a quarter of a trillion pounds after four consecutive quarters
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Boutique asset manager Unigestion has appointed Emanuele Ravano as chairman of UNI-GLOBAL, a SICAV comprising 13 Unigestion sub-funds.
Ravano will work closely with Unigestion’s senior management team and will be influential in mentoring and supporting Unigestion’s distribution initiatives.
Ravano has over 30 years of experience building long-term client relationships by providing investment advice and consistent portfolio management. He spent 13 years as managing director and head of global wealth and portfolio management at PIMCO and 16 years as managing director and head of European fixed income at Credit Suisse.
Bernard Sabrier (pictured), group chairman of Unigestion, says: “Emanuele’s
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Clearstream has developed a solution that supports domestic settlement of DekaBank’s cleared trading activity on Euronext, tpREPO and BrokerTec across Belgium, France and the Netherlands.
The model responds to an increasing market need for simplified cross-border settlement and contributes to current EU-wide efforts to harmonise practices across Europe's previously disparate post-trade securities landscape.
Clearstream’s Settlement Agent Services help banks to improve their liquidity and collateral management by pooling liquidity in one place and making collateral management more efficient. As part of its offering around TARGET2-Securities (T2S), Clearstream Banking Luxembourg will act as DekaBank's settlement agent for fixed income and
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Investors redeemed an estimated USD14.2 billion from hedge funds in October, bringing year-to-date outflows to USD77.0 billion, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Industry Asset Flows Report.
The report reveals that the breadth of redemption pressure in October was the industry’s largest in 2016 with 61 per cent of reporting funds estimated to have net outflow during the month.
The last five months have accounted for the majority of the industry’s redemptions in 2016, a time frame which aligns with investors’ processes for analysing 2015 results, and taking actions on those decisions.
Redemptions from managed futures were the
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Lawson Conner is to host its latest Hedge Fund Capital Raising/Global Investor Update webinar on 30 November 2016 at 10am.
The topics for discussion will be emerging investor themes and market sentiment amongst medium to large fund allocators.
Michael Denoon-Slater, head of capital introduction at Lawson Conner, will lead the presentation and share his insights gathered from numerous investor meetings over the previous two months. The presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.
Denoon-Slater is responsible for all capital raising and fund business development activities at Lawson Conner. At the webinar he will discuss his insights drawn
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Euronext has selected Strategic Insight’s LiquidMetrix as the best execution analytics platform for its equity, ETF and derivatives products.
Euronext will be using LiquidMetrix to help its clients demonstrate best execution and provide them with insights for their multi-asset trading activity.
By choosing LiquidMetrix Euronext wants to address the growing challenges in Europe presented by market fragmentation, increased enforcement of best execution and ongoing regulatory change.
Euronext recently established a new quant research function to strengthen its analytical capability and help clients with insights into their trading behaviour.
It also introduced Best of Book, a best execution
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The Warsaw Stock Exchange has launched GBP futures on the main market of the exchange (GPW).
“The decision to introduce GBP futures is yet another step in making GPW’s offer more attractive to investors. Both currency futures and single-stock futures enjoy strong interest of active market participants,” says Małgorzata Zaleska (pictured), president of the Warsaw Stock Exchange.
The addition of GBP futures to the exchange’s instrument list is part of GPW’s policy to expand its offer for investors. Along with USD/PLN, EUR/PLN and CHF/PLN, GBP/PLN is the fourth currency pair futures contract available for trade.
The following futures
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The pan-European gas trading platform PEGAS, operated by Powernext, has published a new position paper regarding the potential merger of the NCG, Gaspool and TTF gas market areas in the near future.
Within the paper, PEGAS outlines the potential cost of such a merger while also assessing the limited benefit to end consumers.
The position paper follows a study initiated by the German Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA) into the functioning of the two German Market Areas NCG and Gaspool. BNetzA were supported by independent consultants WECOM who analysed the performance of the market.
The study by WECOM indicates that the
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