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Man Group has appointed Brian Broesder and Westin Lovy as managing directors based in firm’s Connecticut office.
They are both joining from Bridge Lane Capital, a firm they co-founded in 2012 which specialises in private debt transactions with small and lower middle market companies in North America.
Broesder and Lovy will continue to manage Bridge Lane’s portfolios at Man Group. Bridge Lane currently has over USD125 million in committed capital.
Prior to co-founding Bridge Lane in 2012, Broesder was managing director and portfolio manager at credit manager Whitecap Advisors, which he joined at its inception in 2003.
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- 01/09/2016
- 01/09/2016
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
- 01/09/2016
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
- 31/08/2016
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
- 31/08/2016
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
- 31/08/2016
- 31/08/2016
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
- 31/08/2016
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
- 31/08/2016
- 31/08/2016
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.”
- 31/08/2016
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,
- 30/08/2016
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
- 30/08/2016
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