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The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global representative for alternative asset managers, has appointed a new chairman and a new AIMA Council, the association’s global board of directors. Taking over as AIMA chair is Simon Lorne, vice chairman and chief legal officer at Millennium Management.   He replaces the former SEC commissioner Kathleen Casey, who served as chair of AIMA from September 2012 to September 2016.   There are four new additions to the AIMA Council: Robyn Grew, chief administrative officer and GC, Man Group; Han Ming Ho, partner, Sidley Austin; Ryan Taylor, partner and global head of compliance,
FINCAD is holding a follow-up to its incredibly popular July live webinar “Negative Rates: Dealing with an Unorthodox Experiment,” with an interactive discussion tomorrow, 28 September, designed to help answer any questions arising from this pressing topic. The live Q&A session, which is scheduled for 11am ET, 8pm PT and 4 PM BST, will be completely audience-driven. There will be no pitch from FINCAD, just open, honest answers to questions on negative rates and related industry topics.  CLICK HERE TODAY to reserve a spot for this important, and sure to be highly-informative, interactive discussion. The hosts for the session will
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, has been named the Best North American Cloud Services Provider in the Hedgeweek USA Awards 2016. The awards, which celebrate the achievements of the best performing managers and service providers in the US hedge funds industry, are unique in that they are based on a peer review system.    The winners were determined by the votes of Hedgeweek's subscribers, who include institutional investors, wealth managers, fund managers and other industry professionals at firms including fund administrators, prime brokers, custodians, law firms, custodians and advisers.  
Maples Fund Services, a division of MaplesFS and an independent global fund services provider, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the opening of its Hong Kong office. Commencing operations in Hong Kong in 2006, Maples Fund Services provides accounting, middle office, risk reporting and administration services to a client base which includes investment management firms, institutional investors, pension plans and global financial institutions.   Eastern Fong, regional hedge of fund services – Asia, has overall responsibility for the business operations of Maples Fund Services in the Asia Pacific region. Having joined the firm in 2006, he has played a crucial
Asset management professionals continue to prioritise back-office automation and managing increased regulatory reporting, according to the 2016 Asset Management Industry Trends Survey by Confluence. The majority of asset management industry professionals (61 per cent) cited automating back-office processes as an important goal over the next two years.   Back-office automation has remained the top priority in each of the four industry surveys that Confluence has conducted since 2008. Managing increased regulatory reporting requirements simultaneously (47 per cent) and centralising fund data (44 per cent) were the second- and third-most cited goals in this year’s survey.   Nearly all respondents reported being
Funds-of-funds entered into side letters – special agreements that hedge fund managers sometimes make with investors, overriding general terms applicable to other investors – six times as often as non-profit institutions and nearly four times as often as corporate pension funds. That’s according to the Seward & Kissel 2015/16 Hedge Fund Side Letter Study, which reveals that funds-of-funds made up 30.5 per cent of all side letter investors and government plans 27.1 per cent.   The investor types with the fewest side letters were corporate pensions and non-profit institutions, making up only 8.5 per cent and 5 per cent of
A Tanzanian gold mining firm part-acquired by The Montreux Natural Resources Fund is due to produce its first gold next year following “fast-track” development of two of its mines. In September 2015, The Montreux Natural Resources Fund, formerly The Montreux Commodity Trading Fund Cayman, expanded its focus in the gold-mining sector by acquiring a 50 per cent stake in the Tanzanian mining investment company GRB Mining Ltd, based in Dar Es Salaam.   GRB Mining, which has developed a niche high value-low Capex-low Opex mining model, focuses on the production of gold from small-scale high grade mines in Morogoro, Tanzania.   Since September last year two
CBOE Holdings is to acquires Bats Global in a cash and stock transaction valued at approximately USD32.50 per share, or a total of approximately USD3.2 billion, consisting of 31 per cent cash and 69 per cent CBOE Holdings stock. The deal is based on CBOE Holdings’ closing stock price of USD70.30 per share on 23 September 2016.   The transaction will significantly expand CBOE Holdings’ product line across asset classes, broaden its geographic reach with Bats’ strong pan-European equities and global FX positions, and diversify its business mix with significant non-transactional revenue streams.   CBOE Holdings expects to use Bats’
Thomson Reuters has launched a Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) Index, which ranks the top 100 publicly traded companies globally with the most diverse and inclusive workplaces, as measured by 24 metrics across four key categories. The categories are diversity, inclusion, people development and news controversies.   The index is then calculated by weighing each metric based on importance in the market and how each company compares with its peers.   The D&I Index is available on Thomson Reuters Eikon, as are the underlying diversity and inclusion metrics, which can be used to gain insight and help financial professionals screen companies
Richard Fleischman & Associates Inc (RFA) has launched the RFA Multi-Cloud platform to enable RFA clients to more efficiently scale up and scale down their cloud platform requirements in line with their business needs. And, importantly, in full compliance with regulation.  The new cloud solution builds upon the success of RFA’s private cloud – an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering – which sees RFA partnering with Amazon and Microsoft, giving clients the flexibility to use public cloud services in tandem with private cloud services with the same guaranteed level of performance and security.  This latest development marks an important stage in the

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