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Sanostro has teamed up with Avaloq to provide scalable foreign exchange (FX) robo-advisory solutions to Avaloq's customers.
Avaloq's customers will be able to implement FX hedging signals from leading quantitative managers on Sanostro's platform directly in high-net-worth customers' portfolios.
Sanostro's adapter allows a bank using the Avaloq Banking Suite to choose among the best quantitative managers, including external and in-house experts to manage FX risk within predefined limits, thus stabilising the asset base in a higher volatility environment and allowing portfolio managers to focus on their core investment competence, such as stock picking and bond selection.
- 18/10/2016
- 18/10/2016
Chicago-based RJ O'Brien & Associates (RJO) has appointed industry veteran Daniel Staniford as executive director, responsible for the firm's institutional business development in New York and London.
Staniford has more than two decades of experience in sales and management at some of the world's leading banks and financial services institutions.
He will operate out of RJO's New York office and travel regularly to the UK to further expand the firm's sales capabilities in the two key financial centres.
Gerald Corcoran, RJO chairman and chief executive officer, says: "Dan is highly respected in the industry, and he has a
- 18/10/2016
PIMCO has appointed Alice Cavalier as a senior vice president in the firm’s alternatives team.
Cavalier (pictured) will focus on the analysis of stressed and distressed investments in Europe and will be based in the firm’s London office.
Cavalier joins PIMCO’s established alternatives team of 110 investment professionals globally. Her hiring is part of the continued expansion of the firm’s alternatives investment platform and follows the hires of Paul Vosper, executive vice president and real estate strategist, and Lionel Laurant, executive vice president and distressed credit portfolio manager, earlier in the year.
Cavalier joins PIMCO from Bayside Capital, the
- 18/10/2016
The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark recorded gains of 0.91 per cent in September, marking the seventh successive month of positive performance as the industry delivered returns of 4.06 per cent through the third quarter.
These gains mark an improvement from both Q2 and Q1, in which they posted returns of 2.13 per cent and -0.81 per cent respectively.
It represents the best quarterly performance since Q1 2013, when the industry returned 4.10 per cent. In 2016 YTD, hedge funds have posted total gains of 5.41 per cent despite suffering loses at the beginning of the year.
All
- 18/10/2016
By Joseph Bartolotta, Chief Marketing Officer, Meyler Capital
Control where they look and you’ll see results
Nature has done her usual efficient job of aligning structure with function. In the animal kingdom that means the location of an animal’s eyes is very closely related to how it gets its food (and how it tries to avoid becoming someone else’s food).
Monkeys, cats, hawks, dogs, people, and tigers have their eyes on the front of their head – giving them great forward vision and depth perception. They tend to be good hunters and have the ability to not only select their
- 17/10/2016
- 17/10/2016
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has introduced central clearing for the IBA Gold Auction which underlies the LBMA Gold Price that is planned to go live in March 2017, and the launch of a new London gold daily futures contract in February 2017, subject to regulatory review.
The contract will be for Loco London gold, which refers to gold bullion that is physically held in London.
“We are pleased to introduce central clearing for the gold auction underlying the benchmark LBMA Gold Price,” says Finbarr Hutcheson (pictured), president, ICE Benchmark Administration. “The number of participants in the LBMA Gold Price has
- 17/10/2016
The value of assets invested in alternative UCITS funds has increased by 26 per cent annually since the financial crisis of 2008, according to Deutsche Bank Global Prime Finance’s 2016 Alternative UCITS Survey.
In this year’s survey, 130 institutional investors which collectively manage and/or advise on over USD700 billion in hedge fund assets and USD150 billion in alternative UCITS assets, share insights into their current allocation plans and investment preferences for alternative UCITS funds.
“Total assets managed by alternative UCITS funds have grown by 26 per cent annually since the 2008 global financial crisis to reach close to EUR400
- 17/10/2016
Front Street Capital is to sell Jemekk Capital Management to J2 Capital Management, a newly created corporation controlled by Gerard Ferguson.
J2 Capital will be assigned the investment management and portfolio advisory agreements relating to the Jemekk Total Return Fund and the Jemekk Long/Short Fund, subject to J2 Capital obtaining registration under applicable securities legislation.
The transaction is expected to close on or prior to 15 November 2016.
In connection with the closing of the transaction, Ferguson (pictured) will be leaving Front Street Capital and will continue to manage the Jemekk funds through J2 Capital. In addition, it
- 17/10/2016
Henry Swieca, founder of investment firm Talpion Fund Management and co-founder of hedge fund Highbridge Capital Management, is pledging USD1 million to The National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
Swieca's pledge is directed to the Cost of Victory gallery in the upcoming Liberation Pavilion, which will commemorate the destruction of life in Europe as well as the role America played in ending the Nazi reign of terror.
Henry Swieca is the son of Polish Holocaust survivors who emigrated to the US before his birth. "I grew up with great appreciation for America and its principals of freedom and liberty," says Swieca.
- 17/10/2016
Odey Asset Management has appointed Dipankar Shewaram to the firm’s investment team to work alongside Tim Bond managing the Odey Odyssey Fund.
Shewaram (pictured) previously worked at BlueBay Asset Management and Western Asset Management.
Crispin Odey says: “Odey has always combined an understanding of the macro with rigorous stock research. Over the last decade we have built a world class equity research team and Dip joins us as the macro debate moves from noisy to deafening.”
Shewaram adds: “I have known Crispin and Tim for over a decade and have great respect for them as investors and for the
- 14/10/2016
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