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Manulife Asset Management has named Chris Fellingham as Senior Managing Director, Head of Liquid Alternative Strategies. The appointment is effective 13 June.
Fellingham will report to Chris Conkey, Executive Vice President, Global CIO, Manulife Asset Management, and be based in London.
"We are pleased to welcome Chris to Manulife Asset Management. He brings significant expertise in liquid alternative investment strategies, a strong client-focus and decades of global asset management experience," says Conkey. "We created this new role to drive our growth strategy in liquid alternatives. Chris will play a significant role leading the expansion of our range of absolute return
- 10/06/2016
Newfleet Asset Management, an affiliate of Virtus Investment Partners, has closed a USD356.3 million collateralised loan obligation (CLO).
Newfleet CLO 2016-1 will be backed by a diversified portfolio of broadly syndicated senior secured floating rate loans, with six classes of notes rated by Moody's and S&P and unrated subordinated notes. The CLO will have a two-year non-call and a four-year reinvestment period with a final maturity of 12 years. Newfleet's parent, Virtus, retained 100 per cent of the subordinated notes.
David L Albrycht, CFA, Newfleet's president and chief investment officer, said the successful offering marks the first transaction for Newfleet's
- 10/06/2016
Since its inception on 6 May 2016, the RWC Asia Absolute Alpha Fund generated a return of 0.7 per cent for the month. The fund spent most of May with low net exposure while its manager, Garret Mallal assessed the macro outlook.
The fund was borne out of a conversion of the RWC Global Innovation Absolute Alpha Fund, as a new fund within the RWC UCITS umbrella and follows a similar strategy to the team’s existing Cayman-domiciled Asia long/short fund, also managed by Mallal. Mallal and his team employ a long/short pan-Asia approach using equities, as well as currencies and
- 09/06/2016
NetOTC, the risk solutions firm that has been designing and building a full end-to-end market infrastructure for non-cleared OTC derivatives in close collaboration with regulatory and industry bodies, banks and their end customers, has put its initiative on hold.
Roger Liddell (pictured), CEO, NetOTC, says: "We developed the NetOTC pooled initial margin structure to make the use of collateral both more effective and more efficient. Core to our ambition was the objective to increase market safety and to protect against collateral exhaustion. To achieve this, we have worked with industry participants to create an end-to-end technology platform, a legal structure
- 09/06/2016
The latest report from Preqin finds that increasing numbers of active investors and a positive general view of performance among existing investors have driven inflows into CTAs over recent quarters.
The number of institutional investors actively investing in CTAs reached a record 1,067 in 2015, up from 1,017 in 2014. Furthermore, 69 per cent of investors interviewed at the end of 2015 reported that their CTA portfolios had met their performance expectations for the year, the second highest proportion of any leading hedge fund strategy. In the same survey, 29 per cent of all hedge fund investors said they planned
- 09/06/2016
- 09/06/2016
New York-based Imagineer Technology Group offers award-winning solutions to help hedge fund managers address the transparency and workflow demands necessary to succeed in today's marketplace. These solutions, which include an industry-specific client relationship management (Clienteer CRM) software, a web reporting portal (WebVision) and a fund research and due diligence platform (FundInsight), have been designed to build workflow efficiency and help firms communicate more effectively with investors and prospects.
"The platform is quite comprehensive in terms of the day-to-day workflows of our clients. In as much as investor transparency requirements and regulatory requirements have changed over the years, our clients' reporting
- 09/06/2016
KNEIP is one of the fund industry's foremost legal and regulatory report providers. Over the years it has helped traditional asset managers overcome the data management complexities of regulated UCITS funds.
More recently, since the introduction of AIFMD, KNEIP has watched closely as hedge fund managers have fought to overcome the stranglehold of Annex IV reporting – depending on the size of the manager, they must file quarterly, semi-annual or annual reports and collect large volumes of reliable, consistent data.
Data ownership
"In the first instance, you have to analyse the symptoms of the problem," says Lee Godfrey, Deputy CEO
- 09/06/2016
- 09/06/2016
How hedge funds view their technology and operational models is fast evolving. Consider a simple example: the need to reconcile with half a dozen prime brokers and an administrator.
In the past a large fund would think nothing of developing a proprietary solution, but now there are other choices:
Buy an off the shelf software that automates the reconciliation process
Hire a managed reconciliation service
Push the recon function to a fund's HFA or middle office proposal as a value-added service.
Previously, managers would build complex internal technology frameworks to reconcile with their prime brokers, but the option to
- 09/06/2016
"One of the things we see across our organisation is that data management is becoming a much bigger priority and focus among asset managers," asserts Todd Moyer (pictured), Executive Vice President of Global Business Development, Confluence. "The complexities related both to institutional investor reporting and regulatory reporting are making data management a significant challenge. With Form-PF alone, managers might be looking at 30 to 35 different data sources across a dozen systems in order to meet the transparency requirements."
Confluence is a leader in data management and automation for the global asset management industry. To address the data management and
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- 09/06/2016
By Rob Keller (pictured), CFA, Executive Managing Director, Product Management and Development, Eze Software Group – In today's world, increased regulatory pressures make collaboration between compliance and trading departments critical. The growing demands of compliance departments for pre-trade checks can potentially disrupt workflows and take valuable time away from trade creation and execution. According to TABB Group, many investment managers have issues with their current pre-trade compliance technology setup. Many firms have trading and compliance in disparate systems resulting in inefficient and slow trading workflows. These inefficiencies are driving the demand for tighter integration between execution management and order management
- 09/06/2016
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