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More than 80 per cent of institutional investors surveyed at a recent event hosted by Northern Trust in Stockholm expect investor allocations to alternative assets to increase within the next five years, with private equity and infrastructure to receive the highest new allocations. Approximately 50 Nordic institutional investors – including some of the largest and most sophisticated asset owners in the world – were surveyed on their perspectives on the evolving role of alternative investments.   “In the current low growth, low interest rate environment, alternative investments play an increasingly important role for investors looking for higher yield and lower
RSRCHXchange, the online marketplace for institutional research, has formed a strategic partnership with Substantive Research, an independent curator of daily macroeconomic investment research for asset managers and asset owners. The partnership will close the gap between new research and point of sale. The daily Substantive Research Briefings highlight to portfolio managers the latest macro research and will now link to the RSRCHX platform, enabling them to procure the reports in real time.   Substantive Research helps investors find the best top-down research quickly by curating and distributing daily briefings that summarise five of the highest quality macroeconomic, allocation and strategy
The global hedge fund industry returned an average of +0.86 per cent in June and finished up the second quarter at +2.09 per cent, according to the June/2Q 2016 eVestment Hedge Fund Performance Report.  The overall positive returns for hedge funds and very strong returns in some specific segments highlighted the value hedge funds can offer investors during volatile market conditions.   And while the impacts on hedge funds of the late June BREXIT vote aren’t entirely clear yet, the report does note some challenges as a result of the uncertainty in European and world markets the late June referendum
Bill Prew (pictured) from the INDOS Group has written a note on the implications of Brexit on AIFMD depositaries. “A UK withdrawal from the European Union (EU) following the 23 June 2016 ‘Brexit’ Referendum has potential implications on the existing requirement for UK Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFMs) to appoint, in certain circumstances, a depositary under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD),” he writes.  “To recap, AIFMD introduced a requirement for certain AIFMs to ensure that a depositary is appointed to perform a fiduciary oversight role over the Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) which they manage. The depositary requirements for UK
Total assets managed by the top 100 alternative investment managers globally reached USD3.6 trillion in 2015, up 3 per cent on the prior year, according to research produced by Willis Towers Watson. The Global Alternatives Survey, which covers ten asset classes and seven investor types, shows that of the top 100 alternative investment managers, real estate managers have the largest share of assets (34 per cent and over USD1.2 trillion), followed by hedge funds (21 per cent and USD755 billion), private equity fund managers (18 per cent and USD640 billion), private equity funds of funds (PEFoFs) (12 per cent and
Hedge funds posted gains in June as global financial markets experienced massive dislocations across currency, equity, fixed income and commodity markets stemming from the result of the UK referendum on EU membership. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index gained 0.8 per cent for the month, the fourth consecutive month of positive performance, as reported today by HFR. Macro strategies posted their strongest monthly gain in over five years, while defensive hedging limited exposures of directional equity hedge and event-driven strategies.   June performance topped most regional equity markets for the month, with the notable exception of UK equities. The monthly
Farallon Capital Management has completed fundraising for Farallon Asia Special Situations III and Farallon Asia Special Situations Master III, an Asia and Latin America focused private investment pool, with aggregate commitments of USD1.12 billion. "We are very excited to begin investing FASS III and want to thank all of our investors for their continued commitment to Farallon. We take pride in providing flexible and strategic capital solutions to entrepreneurs, key families and business groups, even in a challenging business environment. We look forward to partnering with them to capitalise on the robust opportunity set that we see in Asia," says
Neptune, the open standards network for pre-trade indications in bond markets, has formed a new company, Neptune Networks Ltd, to run the utility.  The board will be comprised of members of the banks and asset managers involved in the collaboration for the past 18 months.   Neptune says it recognises the importance of joint buy-side and sell-side governance in order to best meet the challenges in the industry.   17 dealers are currently connected to the system distributing over USD70 billion of gross notional and 13,000 structured pre-trade indications across 8,500 ISINs to their clients. The network is continuing to grow,
HIG Bayside Capital, a credit affiliate of HIG Capital, has held the first close of IDeA CCR (Corporate Credit Recovery) I Fund, an investment platform managed by IDeA Capital Funds SGR (IDeA), at EUR260 million. The fund, which comprises two sub-funds – a Credit Fund and a New Money Fund – will invest in Italian mid-sized enterprises in distressed situations, aiming to help them restructure and turnaround, and consequently help banks maximise the recovery of their original loans.   The Credit Fund consists of the loans in eight companies contributed by seven leading banks in Italy: UniCredit, BNL/BNP Paribas, Banca
Apex Fund Services has seen its biggest growth month in the firm’s history by taking on USD2.7 billion worth of new business in June 2016, 60 per cent of which was converted from other fund administrators. The Apex Group added 36 funds to its client base in during the month with an average fund size of USD75 million. This equates to a 7 per cent increase in assets under administration.   Peter Hughes (pictured), founder and chief executive officer, Apex Fund Services, says: “We’ve faced a tough time as an industry over the past twelve months, with the last month

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