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HW: What are the core services that Invast offers to financial clients?
GW: Invast is a global, multi-asset Prime Services provider. We provide credit intermediation, access to liquidity (both OTC and exchange), sophisticated trading platforms/ API connectivity options, administrative/back office tools and services, and an experienced Prime Services team to support clients globally. We complement these services with high quality global equity, FX and commodity research.
We focus on being responsive and flexible. That is definitely our niche. We are squarely aimed at meeting the needs of small and medium-sized hedge funds that are being overlooked by the large Tier
- 24/05/2016
Investment advisory and placement firm for hedge and private equity funds Aqueduct Capital Group, has appointed Dr Pawan Chaturvedi as head of investments.
Chaturvedi joins Aqueduct from the UCLA Investment Company, where he was a senior investment director focused on all aspects of portfolio management and the private markets portfolio. Prior to UCLA, he was a partner at private markets advisor Altius Associates and a member of their executive management committee. His new role at Aqueduct will be working in collaboration with partners Tom Roupe, Frank Edwards and Steve Lessing.
Roupe, co-founder of Aqueduct, says: “Pawan is an extremely talented
- 24/05/2016
Hedge funds investing in Russian and Latin American Emerging Markets (EM) have posted strong gains through early 2016, leading performance through April, as global and EM equity, commodity and currency markets surged in recent weeks following steep losses to begin the year.
The HFRI EM: Latin America Index leads all areas of hedge fund performance for 2016 with a gain of +15.3 per cent through April, according to the latest HFR Emerging Markets Hedge Fund Industry Report, released today by HFR®, the established global leader in the indexation, analysis and research of the global hedge fund industry.
Recent gains for
- 24/05/2016
- 24/05/2016
Offshore law firm Appleby has appointed Alex Brainis as a partner in the Investment Funds group, in the firms’ Cayman Islands office.
Managing Partner, Bryan Hunter, says: “On behalf of the partners, it is my pleasure to extend a warm welcome to Mr Brainis as he joins us from Toronto. He is the second partner to join the Investment Funds team in the past six months, and we are confident that his vast experience in this space ranging from legal expertise, client relations and business development to fund administration will be of great benefit to the firm.”
Brainis joins Appleby
- 24/05/2016
American Beacon Advisors, a provider of investment advisory services to institutional and retail markets, has launched the American Beacon GLG Total Return Fund.
The American Beacon GLG Total Return Fund is managed in an absolute-return style focused predominately in fixed income instruments of issuers that are economically tied to emerging market countries. The Fund’s sub-advisor, GLG (Man GLG) employs a primarily bottom-up and top-down investment process in which country credits, currencies and local rate curves are analysed for relative value. Man GLG, a wholly owned subsidiary of Man Group, is a discretionary investment manager offering absolute return and long-only funds
- 24/05/2016
NFA President and CEO Daniel Roth has announced his plan to retire in the coming year. NFA's Board of Directors has authorised the formation of a committee to conduct a search for his successor. The search will consider both internal and external candidates.
Roth (pictured) joined NFA, a self-regulatory organisation for the US derivatives industry, in September 1983 as an attorney and has held a number of positions with increasing responsibilities, including General Counsel, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In January 2003, Roth began his tenure as President and CEO.
"I'm proud of all that NFA has achieved
- 24/05/2016
- 24/05/2016
FactSet Research Systems is to sell its market research business focused on advisor-sold investments and insurance, consisting of Market Metrics and Matrix Solutions, to Asset International, a portfolio company of Genstar Capital.
The total purchase price is approximately USD165 million, subject to certain working capital adjustments, with an additional earn-out of USD10 million based on the achievement of certain growth targets over the next two years.
“This transaction is consistent with our long-term strategic direction and our commitment to delivering value to our shareholders,” says Phil Snow, Chief Executive Officer of FactSet. “We appreciate the efforts of the dedicated employees
- 23/05/2016
- 23/05/2016
The asset management industry faces a ‘triple whammy’ of challenges in 2016 – comprising a growing threat from disruptors, a tsunami of regulation and market turmoil – according to a new industry survey from Multifonds.
Multifonds’ annual ‘Every Fund survey’, which surveyed fund managers and administrators who manage and service assets exceeding USD27 trillion and USD19 trillion respectively, highlights the key challenges and concerns facing the asset management industry today.
Over half (54 per cent) of respondents believe a new game changing disruptor, such as Amazon or Google will enter the market in the next two years.
The
- 23/05/2016
Broadridge Financial Solutions has appointed Stephanie Clarke (pictured) to the role of senior vice president of Global Market Intelligence within its Mutual Fund and Retirement Solutions business based in London.
Clarke's hire underlines Broadridge's commitment to grow its competitive intelligence business following the acquisition of the Fiduciary Services and Competitive Intelligence Business from Thomson Reuters in 2015. This latest hire focused on Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia is part of Broadridge's strategy to continue developing its analytics and market intelligence solutions for mutual fund manufacturers, ETF issuers and fund administrators globally.
Broadridge's intelligence solutions provide financial services firms with
- 23/05/2016
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for May 2016 measured 4.38 per cent, up from 2.94 per cent in April.
"Looking at the year over year comparison, SS&C GlobeOp's Forward Redemption Indicator for May 2016 was 4.38 per cent, an improvement from the 4.68 per cent seen a year ago for May 2015," says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. "So far in 2016, four of the first five monthly Forward Redemption Indicator readings have come in lower than the corresponding months of 2015, indicating that investors continue to show confidence in their hedge fund allocations."
- 23/05/2016
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