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With interest rates remaining persistently low NAIC Schedule BA assets, which include alternative investment securities, have generally provided insurers with the potential for higher risk-adjusted returns to help mitigate the decline in higher portfolio book yields, according to a AM Best report.
The report, “Hedge Fund Performance Has Insurers Reducing Exposure,” states that without a meaningful increase in interest rates, insurers have limited choices for investing new dollars from maturing securities and new business premiums to maintain targeted risk-adjusted returns. Therefore, the current industry trend toward modestly higher allocations to non-traditional asset classes is likely to continue.
Despite some
- 09/11/2016
Asian, European and UK markets have all seen significant falls following the news that Donald Trump is to become the 45th President of the United States.
In the opening minutes of trading in London, the UK’s FTSE 100 index was down 82 points (1.2 per cent), following earlier falls in other major European and Asian stock markets.
Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed down by 5.4 percent at the end of Wednesday trading, but Hong Kong’s Hang Seng fared better, trading 2.9 per cent lower, with the Shanghai Composite closing down 0.3 per cent.
US stocks are also expected to fall sharply
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Fabrizio Quirighetti, chief investment officer at SYZ Asset Management, has assessed the potential implications for markets following the Trump victory.
He writes: “This unprecedented presidential race has finally come to an end and, once again, the anti-establishment vote has been underestimated by polls, journalists and analysts as the winner is Donald Trump. The first thing that comes to our mind is ‘hope for the best, but prepare for the worst’, as the campaign has provided many evidences Trump could be a terrible president.
“His victory, to an extent, is also the symbol of current political failure to address key
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Wall Street Horizon’s earnings-related corporate event data is now available to the corporate "C-suite" and investor relations (IR) professionals for the first time through the Virtua platform.
Wall Street Horizon is providing Virtua Research, a financial services technology company, with five of its forward-looking and historical event data types via its Enchilada online application – corporate earnings dates, earnings reports, earnings announcements, earnings revisions and earnings conference calls.
In addition, Virtua subscribers will have the opportunity to purchase the full Enchilada premium service with all 40+ corporate event types.
Chief financial officers and financial analysts alike can perform
- 09/11/2016
Block-focused alternative trading systems (ATS) face challenges in gaining and sustaining liquidity, according to a report by TABB Group.
In October 2016, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) began a monthly initiative releasing new data on block liquidity in ATS.
TABB Group’s latest report, “Blocks in the Dark: Trading in Size on ATSs,” highlights the takeaways from this new source of block data and puts it in context in light of historical TABB-reported ATS block liquidity, industry trade size and off-exchange market share.
Research author Valerie Bogard (pictured) explains that with these added metrics, which are aggregated monthly
- 09/11/2016
Intercontinental Exchange has appointed Jonathan Reeve as global head of ICE Data Services’ connectivity and consolidated feed businesses.
Reeve will report to Lynn Martin (pictured), president and chief operating officer of ICE Data Services, and will be responsible for strategic oversight and day-to-day management of ICE’s secure financial transaction infrastructure (SFTI), colocation and consolidated feed businesses.
“With more than 20 years of experience in data operations and product management, Jonathan brings a deep background and extensive knowledge of the market data industry for our customers and the ICE Data Services team,” says Martin. “As we continue expanding our global
- 09/11/2016
Recruitment of marketing and fundraising staff across the alternative funds sector, including hedge funds, private equity firms, real estate managers and third-party marketing firms, reached an all-time high in the third quarter of 2016, according to corporate advisory and search firm Contect Jensen Partners (CJP).
“Hiring hit an all-time high in the third quarter, with marketing moves up across the board,” says Sasha Jensen (pictured), founder and CEO of Context Jensen Partners. “This demand reflects the continued need for experienced marketing professionals to establish fund flows and raise new capital. As we head into the end of the year, we
- 08/11/2016
CLS Group, a provider of risk mitigation and operational services for the global foreign exchange (FX) market, has completed the upgrade its settlement members to a new member gateway and market infrastructure (MI) channel.
CLS’s settlement members include 66 of the world’s largest financial institutions which are direct participants in CLS.
Over 21,000 third-party clients around the world also access CLS’s services indirectly through settlement members. These include banks, asset managers, hedge funds, non-bank financial institutions and multinational corporations.
CLS worked with each of its settlement members, as well as SWIFT, to build and integrate a new member
- 08/11/2016
In a challenging market environment, investment managers are looking for ways to incorporate the latest research methods and state-of-the-art investment practices to navigate through choppy waters and deliver to investors the best risk-adjusted returns.
Cognisant of this, three years ago Yale SOM partnered with the EDHEC-Risk Institute to create a series of joint executive education seminars centered on Advanced Risk and Investment Management.
The program has been designed by Lionel Martellini, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School and Director of EDHEC-Risk Institute and Will Goetzmann, Edwin J Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies, Director of the International Center for Finance,
- 08/11/2016
Asset managers are under pressure to deliver performance and find new sources of alpha in today’s low growth low yield environment. As such, having the right systems in place to support greater asset class diversification that allow managers to pivot their investment strategies, and extend the instrument coverage of those strategies, is a must-have.
As technology advancements improve, it is helping fund managers to run combinations of onshore and offshore strategies, segregated accounts, across the liquidity spectrum with the confidence of having real-time IBOR, liquidity management tools, multi-asset risk and pricing models. Not to mention sophisticated analytics needed to run
- 08/11/2016
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