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City Financial Investment Company has acquired management of the Convex Strategy, with current assets of USD180 million, from Fortress Investment Group in Asia.
The strategy will be managed by chief investment officer David Dredge and the investment team who join City Financial’s regulated entity in Singapore and managing director Julian Ings-Chambers in London.
The acquisition further expands City Financial’s Asian business alongside the Asian macro team based in Hong Kong and the Japanese equities team.
David Dredge has 25 years of Asian investment experience. Prior to joining Fortress in 2011, he was a managing director and portfolio manager
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Societe Generale Prime Services reports that June was a strong month for most CTA strategies, with the SG CTA Index posting the largest monthly gain since November 2014, and 90 per cent of the constituent programs contributing positive returns.
All CTA indices have finished positively in the month, and complete the first half of the year in positive territory, led by short-term strategies which have returned +5.80 per cent year to date.
The firm writes that performance figures announced last week showed that CTAs weathered Britain’s EU referendum result well, despite mid-month market uncertainty, having benefited from diversification across
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Christopher Meyers (pictured), head UK & NL institutional trading at Flow Traders, reports that over the last 18 months, the firm has seen an increase in wealth and asset managers in the UK using ETFs.
Flow Traders is a global principal trading firm, a technology-enabled liquidity provider specialising in ETPs and ETFs. The firm continuously provides liquidity to the major financial markets, quoting prices on more than 95 exchanges and providing bid and ask prices off-exchange to institutional counterparties on a request-for-quote basis.
The recent surge in interest in ETFs by wealth managers is partly due to the ETF providers,
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Townsend Lansing (pictured), head of ETCs, ETF Securities reports that the range of investors using exchange traded commodities (ETCs) is broadening to include retail investors. "Interestingly enough in the early days we probably saw predominantly institutional investors using them the most," he says.
"Since 2012, we have seen more and more retail usage, which we measure via trade size. We assume that primary market trades less than USD1 million are direct retail or retail intermediaries. Trades of that size have seen a significant increase, which we take as a representation of increasing interest from this demographic."
Lansing believes that much
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The incredible level of market volatility arising from the uncertainty over the UK's referendum vote has caused a great deal of de-risking on the part of investors over recent months.
Chanchal Samadder (pictured), Head of UK and Ireland ETF sales at Lyxor Asset Management says: "The flows we saw last year and at the beginning of this year were into risk assets, equities across the board geographically but now we are experiencing a reversal towards a risk-off downside protection type of environment."
Risk-off has been dominated by fixed income, with investment grade credit in the US proving itself popular with
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Last November saw BMO Global Asset Management, part of the Bank of Montreal, open the European arm of its ETF business in London.
Marc Knowles (pictured), director of ETFs, BMO Global Asset Management says: "The Canadian ETF business has been up and running for seven years, gathering USD23 billion of assets across 66 ETFs. Launching and developing the ETF business in Europe is part of the firm's strategy to build a global ETF business."
Since landing in London, the firm has launched nine income orientated ETFs, including five equity 'Income Leader' ETFs which combine two strategies, quality and yield. With
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June has seen two events in the ETF calendar organised by firms who have overcome their market competitiveness with each other in favour of educating investors.
The ETF Forum is an independent, UK-based partnership founded by ETF/ETP providers BMO Global Asset Management, ETF Securities, Source in association with Legal & General Investment Management and WisdomTree Europe.
The stated aim of The ETF Forum – which covers not only exchange traded funds (ETFs), but the entire ETP landscape – is to provide advisers and wealth managers with a better understanding of ETFs and how to use them as effective investment tools
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FlexTrade Systems, a specialist in multi-asset execution management systems, has opened a representative office in Sydney, Australia.
With the proposed increases in superannuation contributions there will be an increase in assets under management (AUM) being handled by money managers and superfunds in Australia.
It’s likely that hedge funds, asset managers and others will be increasingly active with their investments in order to improve their returns. There is a limit to the size of potential investments in the Australian market, so traders at these firms will also be looking to trade internationally.
This is driving a growing requirement for
- 05/07/2016
Lemanik Asset Management has made three new hires within its Luxembourg third-party management company to accelerate its positioning as the reference governance provider to UCITS and Alternative Investment Funds.
Alexandre Dumont has joined Lemanik as head of portfolio management and member of the executive committee; Stephen Roberts has joined the business development team with particular focus on illiquid asset classes; and Antonis Anastasiou has joined as head of product management and structuring for Alternative Investment Funds.
With combined experience in the investment fund industry of more than 50 years, the three new hires join Lemanik as a team, having
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Cayman based alternative fund governance specialist Danesmead Partners has appointed former Soros Fund Management chief financial officer (CFO) Tracie Ahern as a director and principal of the firm.
Ahern (pictured_ will be based in New York and will serve as an independent director on alternative investment vehicles.
An industry veteran with 26 years of experience in the investment management industry she is a Certified Public Accountant with an MBA from New York University.
During her eight-year tenure at Soros, Ahern had responsibility for the treasury function, trade operations and firm wide budgeting and financial analysis, including all corporate
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