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Malta has addressed one of the biggest issues in European fund management – the speed to market – with its new Notified Alternative Investment Funds (NAIF) framework, according to Jeremy Leach, Chief Executive Officer of the Managing Partners Group (MPG).
Malta, together with Luxembourg, is one of the first two jurisdictions in Europe to adopt the new framework and the move is likely to expand its share of the alternative investment funds (AIF) market, marking yet another step in the country’s move to becoming a leading financial centre, Jeremy Leach says.
Under the NAIF framework, product providers are directly regulated
- 25/05/2016
Over the last decade the approach to running a hedge fund’s operations has changed markedly, thanks largely to improvements in technology.
Ten or fifteen years ago, the perception among hedge fund managers – when launching their hedge fund – was that they needed a large IT infrastructure in place, which typically involved buying a substantial portfolio accounting system. In their eyes, this was the infrastructure that institutional investors expected to see as it served as a signal of the manager’s intent and reflected their commitment to growing and supporting the business. Since then, the vast majority of funds have also
- 25/05/2016
Boutique prime broker Global Prime Partners has signed a partnership with RSRCHXchange, the online marketplace for institutional research, to provide its growing client base with access to research content.
Global Prime Partners’ clients – including hedge funds, family offices and asset managers – will now have direct access to vital institutional research from over 130 providers on the RSRCHX platform and will be able to track usage in real time via the integrated dashboard.
Global Prime Partners is a multi-award winning financial services firm that provides prime brokerage, execution, clearing and custody services to hedge funds, broker-dealers, asset managers,
- 25/05/2016
According to FTSE Russell’s third annual global institutional market survey, the percentage of asset owners currently evaluating smart beta has doubled from 15 per cent at the first survey in 2014 to 36 per cent in 2016, and 62 per cent of asset owners with an existing smart beta allocation are now evaluating additional allocations.
Smart Beta: 2016 Global Survey Findings from Asset Owners reveals that the strongest growth in smart beta adoption is among asset owners with less than USD1 billion in assets.
FTSE Russell believes that in addition to marking a turning point in smart beta evaluation for global
- 25/05/2016
Lindsay Chamings has joined Andersen Tax as a Managing Director in the Alternative Investment Funds Practice in the firm’s San Francisco office.
Prior to joining Andersen Tax, Chamings was a Managing Director at KPMG (through KPMG's acquisition of Rothstein Kass in 2014).
Lind Chamings say has more than 12 years of experience in providing tax services in the alternative investment fund space. She has experience advising hedge fund and alternative investment companies on the US tax implications of their domestic and international operations in order to obtain an optimal tax minimisation strategy.
“Lindsay is an essential addition to our Alternative
- 25/05/2016
Object Trading has expanded its Direct Market Access (DMA) Service Platform and is now offering fully managed services at TMX Group’s co-location centre for access to the Montréal Exchange (MX).
The company says that this expansion provides flexibility for the buy-side and sell-side, in response to the sell-side experiencing mass retrenchment while exchange volumes increase.
With fully managed services provided at TMX Group’s co-location centre, Object Trading continues to facilitate the optimal relationships between the buy-side and sell-side, enabling them to access liquidity where it is growing, and to create liquidity where opportunities await. Object Trading’s clients now have
- 25/05/2016
SS&C Technologies Holdings, a provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, has named Dave Welling and Robert Roley as co-heads of SS&C Advent.
Pete Hess, Senior Vice President and General Manager, will be leaving SS&C Advent at the end of June.
"The Advent acquisition has been positive for our clients and shareholders and we continue to see lots of opportunity. Dave and Robert are key examples of a deep bench of folks who have expertise and passion," says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive, SS&C Technologies. "We wish Pete well. He did an outstanding job for the Company
- 24/05/2016
The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB) has appointed Clint Carlson (pictured), Founder of Carlson Capital, an USD8 billion alternative asset management firm based in Texas, to its Board.
The HFSB is the global standard-setting body for the hedge fund industry and custodian of the Hedge Fund Standards.
The addition of Carlson to the HFSB board reflects recent growth in the number of US managers supporting the Hedge Fund Standards. New US signatories in 2016 include Carlson Capital, as well as Alyeska Investment Group, BCK Capital, MKP Capital Management, and ROW Asset Management.
North American signatories currently represent the
- 24/05/2016
- 24/05/2016
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
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