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Twelve Capital Group has launched its insurance equity strategy. The portfolios launched to date have a focus on M&A activity in the insurance sector and are designed to offer investors access to the attractive investment opportunities across the entire (re-)insurance balance sheet.   The launch further complements Twelve’s existing strategies, insurance-linked securities and insurance debt, which the firm has been running for several years.   Urs Ramseier (pictured), managing partner and CEO of Twelve Capital Group, says: “Twelve was established with the aim of providing institutional investors access to the interesting investment opportunities across the insurance balance sheet. After ILS
From 4 October 2016, trading participants on the EEX Derivatives Market will be able to hedge against volume risks in the generation of wind power within the German/Austrian market area using EEX’s new Wind Power Futures product. The Wind Power Future is the second “Energiewende” product to be launched by the exchange and comes in response to the increasing challenges with regards to the energy transition.   In September 2014, EEX launched trading in Cap Futures, a Derivatives Market product for hedging against price peaks on the German Intraday Market.   “Unlike the Cap Future, the Wind Power Future addresses volume
Joshua J Yang has joined the Chicago office of K&L Gates as a partner in the firm’s investment management, hedge funds and alternative investments practice. He joins K&L Gates from Winston & Strawn.   Yang represents investment managers in the formation and structuring of private funds, including hedge funds, commingled funds, and group and collective investment trusts.   A chartered financial analyst, he also advises banks, registered funds, and hedge funds in derivatives documentation as well as on a broad range of Dodd-Frank and US Commodity Futures Trading Commission registration and compliance issues.   Additionally, Yang counsels Chinese futures companies
BoardEx has launched three services aimed at improving the performance of quant funds, banks, law firms and consulting firms. They are a quant data feed containing management changes and relationships; a competitive tracking service for banks and law firms; and a mobile app.    “We have a number of key clients that we work with regularly to innovate around identifying and tracking connections for business development,” says Michael Crosby, president of BoardEx. “There isn’t another service out there that can do what BoardEx can do.”   The new Competitor Network release enables the tracking of competitive firms. Users can quickly identify
State Street’s Global Investor Confidence Index (ICI) decreased to 89.7 in August, down 8.3 points from July’s revised reading of 98.0. The decline in sentiment was driven by a decrease in the North American ICI from 99.8 to 89.5 and the European ICI from 92.4 to 86.8, along with the Asian ICI falling 2.0 points to 106.1.   The Investor Confidence Index was developed by Kenneth Froot and Paul O’Connell at State Street Associates, State Street Global Exchange’s research and advisory services business. It measures investor confidence or risk appetite quantitatively by analysing the actual buying and selling patterns of
RFA (Richard Fleischman and Associates) has launched the RFA Multi-Cloud platform, which securely combines public and private cloud services into one managed solution. By extending the safeguards of RFA's singular cyber protection tier, the Multi-Cloud offering enables RFA clients to compliantly integrate cost-effective, scalable public cloud solutions into their IT strategy.   In partnership with Amazon and Microsoft, the RFA Multi-Cloud builds upon RFA's private cloud, a dedicated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, and is designed to meet the need for a flexible, unified platform that facilitates the cost efficient adoption of externally hosted applications as business requirements evolve.   Current RFA
Context Summits, a producer of investment summits for the alternative asset management industry, has appointed Sarah Huntington as chief marketing officer. Huntington brings to Context Summits more than 15 years of sales and marketing experience in the alternative investment industry.   “Sarah’s addition strengthens our senior leadership team and continues the expansion of our firm,” says Mark Salameh, CEO of Context Summits. “Over the last 12 months, we have optimised and grown our technology, operations, sales and investor relations teams in an effort to continue to deliver the most efficient, productive and innovative events in the alternative asset management industry.”
Hawksford has appointed a chief operating officer with 25 years’ financial services experience to lead and build its recently established Cayman Islands office. David Titcombe will be responsible for building the profile of Hawksford’s Cayman office, which launched in November 2015, and for crafting the business model and development plan to grow the Hawksford Cayman team and the company’s corporate and private client offering internationally.   Titcombe has vast experience in offshore planning and the management of complex tax compliant, offshore structures. He has particular expertise dealing with corporate and personal affairs for high net worth entrepreneurs, private family offices,
Portfolio diversification is paying off again, rewarding volatility-weary advisers with higher, more stable returns and lower risk, according to the latest quarterly Portfolio Clarity Trends Report published by Natixis Global Asset Management. The most broadly diversified investment portfolios performed best for the period ending June 30 2016. Diversification levels rose, largely because of increasing usage of alternative strategies, which reached a three-year high in the second quarter.   “The trends we’re seeing suggest the return of more traditional market dynamics, where investors are rewarded with enhanced returns for taking diversified risks,” says John Hailer (pictured), CEO of Natixis Global Asset
Tony Buche has joined Pure Capital to lead the firm’s third party services offering. He will be the primary contact with asset managers looking to establish their funds in Luxembourg and requiring fully independent Manco services. 
 "We are very pleased to have Tony in our team. His market expertise and excellent contact with customers will definitively help us expand our customer base and strengthen the relationships with the market,” says Bernard Pons, managing partner. 
 Buche joins Pure Capital from KNEIP where he held a position of head of relationship management.   Prior to that he worked at Societe Generale Securities

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