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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
- 26/09/2016
Allianz Global Investors has expanded its liquid alternatives platform with the launch of the Allianz Structured Return fund, an absolute return strategy designed to pursue positive returns independent of market conditions, while managing downside risk.
The new fund is managed by portfolio manager Stephen Bond-Nelson, alongside Greg Tournant, chief investment officer for US structured products at AllianzGI.
The investment team, based in New York, has extensive experience investing in equity index option strategies.
The investment platform, launched in September 2005, provides absolute return and return-enhancement solutions for its clients, and as of 31 July, the team manages USD5.3
- 26/09/2016
Volante Technologies, a provider of software for the integration, processing and orchestration of financial messages and payments, is partnering with Finexus to provide the key MT to MX message transformations in complex multi-currency Real-time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system implementations.
Finexus is a Malaysian-headquartered and Asia Pacific region-based digital payment solutions and services provider.
Finexus and Volante’s first project in the region is a multi-year implementation at a central bank and is part of a larger, global internationalisation and modernisation process, to build and maintain RTGS and Scripless Securities Settlement systems in the Asia-Pacific region.
Finexus chose to work
- 26/09/2016
CubeLogik is creating a cloud-based one-stop-shop version of its CubeIntelligence platform for credit risk, market risk, liquidity management and regulatory compliance.
Headquartered in London, with representation in the US and Asia, CubeLogik was formerly an operating division of OpenLink, but is now a fully independent entity with management led by industry veterans David Priestley (pictured) and Lee Campbell.
Priestley says: “Market volatility, coupled with increasingly onerous regulatory changes, are driving the disciplines of credit risk, market risk and liquidity management closer together. Our clients require integrated, highly functional solutions that will sit on top of their trading and accounting
- 26/09/2016
Cowen Prime Services, the prime services division of Cowen Group, has been named Best North American Prime Broker at the 2016 Hedgeweek USA Awards.
The award is based on a peer review system whereby Hedgeweek’s readers, including institutional and high net worth investors, hedge fund managers and other industry professionals at fund administrators, prime brokers, law firms, custodians and advisers, select the top performer in a series of categories.
Jack D Seibald, global co-head of prime brokerage services, says: “We are proud that Hedgeweek readers voted for Cowen Prime as the Best North American Prime Broker. As former investment
- 26/09/2016
AIMA Canada, the national group of the Alternative Investment Management Association, has welcomed the Canadian Securities Administrator’s (CSA’s) proposed amendments to National Instrument 81-102 and related National Instruments.
Once finalised, these amendments potentially will allow Canadian retail investors to add alternative strategies to their investment portfolios.
Alternative investment fund strategies have historically been only available to high-net-worth individuals or institutions.
“Despite the strength and longevity of the alternative investment industry in Canada, it has remained relatively small compared to the US and other regions globally, in part due to regulations that have made it difficult for investors to
- 26/09/2016
Who would want to be a start-up hedge fund manager? Simon Schilder, partner at Ogier in Jersey, and TEAM BVI UK member with BVI Finance, examines the challenges facing the next generation…
The challenges facing the next generation of hedge fund managers are starker than ever before, with increased barriers to entry caused by an ever increasing regulatory burden coupled with the continued existence of a macro-economic environment impacting upon investment performance.
For emerging managers seeking to attract investor allocations, the need to be able to demonstrate a proven track record to prospective investors has never been more important. Generally institutional investors will
- 23/09/2016
Advantage Futures, a Chicago-based futures commission merchant (FCM), the firm’s CEO Joseph Guinan and former chief risk officer William Steele are to jointly pay USD1.5 million to settle CFTC charges over supervision and risk management failures, and making inaccurate statements in CFTC fillings.
The CFTC charges cover failure to diligently supervise the handling of certain commodity interest accounts, for deficient risk management and credit risk practices, and for knowingly making inaccurate statements to the CFTC through the submission of required risk manuals and the Annual Chief Compliance Officer’s Report.
The CFTC order also charges Guinan and Steele with failing
- 23/09/2016
IHS Markit is teaming up with AITEC and the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) to strengthen its Know Your Third Party (KY3P) platform.
The relationship brings together KY3P’s private cloud, one-to-many platform with the AITEC-AIMA Illustrative Questionnaire for Due Diligence of Vendor Cyber Security.
The new questionnaire available on KY3P enables AITEC and AIMA member firms to centralise their approach for vendor outreach and establish a workflow and governance process to promote timelier, efficient and quality responses. Member firms also have the flexibility to add their own supplemental questions for vendor response.
“AIMA is delighted that, as a
- 23/09/2016
IKONIC Fund Services, a provider of fund administration services including accounting, investor services and corporate governance to alternative funds, has been awarded the Best Offshore Fund Administrator by Hedgeweek for the 2016 US Awards.
The Hedgeweek awards are based on peer reviews whereby Hedgeweek’s readers – comprised of institutional investors and fund managers – elect a ‘best-in-class’ provider in various categories through an online survey.
“We are extremely proud to win this Hedgeweek award and are very grateful to our clients and other service providers we work closely with who have voted for us,” says Brian Desmond, head of
- 23/09/2016
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