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361 Capital an investment firm specialising in alternative mutual funds, has named Jason Leupold as its new Vice President of Trading and Research.
In this role, Leupold will collaborate closely with the other members of the investment team to research market opportunities and identify trading strategies that systematically exploit inefficiencies, thus helping the firm deliver better investing outcomes for advisors and their clients.
Leupold most recently served as a research analyst and market strategist with Boulder, Colorado-based Arches Asset Management, where he specialised in exploiting trends in the commodities market. Leupold also spent nine years working with Crabel Capital Management,
- 12/05/2016
- 12/05/2016
Hedge funds returned 1.19 per cent gross in April according to the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index meanwhile, advanced 0.53 per cent in May.
"Hedge funds saw positive net flows this past month, according to SS&C GlobeOp's Capital Movement Index which gained 0.53 per cent for May of 2016, compared to -1.18 per cent in April. In terms of the year over year comparison, the 0.53 per cent for May was down versus 0.86 per cent for May of 2015, with both inflows and outflows coming in
- 12/05/2016
StepStone Group is to acquire private debt and hedge fund solutions provider Swiss Capital Alternative Investments. Completion of the deal will follow customary regulatory approvals and is expected to close before year end 2016.
Terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed.
Swiss Capital is an international alternative asset manager with more than USD5 billion of assets under management offering customised solutions across a variety of platforms to institutional investors, primarily in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
As part of the acquisition, StepStone will launch StepStone Private Debt and StepStone Hedge Funds, which will combine StepStone’s global capabilities and significant institutional
- 12/05/2016
Broadridge Financial Solutions has broadened its Global Post Trade Management (GPTM) solution, adding exchange-traded derivatives functionality through the acquisition of Dojima LLC.
Through this acquisition, Broadridge Global Post Trade Management will facilitate central clearing for exchange-traded derivatives, which encompasses connectivity to global clearing houses and exchanges through its global, multi-asset class post-trade solution. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Dojima’s solution, rebranded as Broadridge Derivatives Clearing, a component of GPTM, offers a modern, multi-asset multi-tenant clearing and connectivity platform for exchange-traded and cleared OTC derivatives. Its real-time, rules driven, auto-clearing facilities allow trades to flow seamlessly from global
- 12/05/2016
Muddy Waters Capital, an activist investment firm, has appointed Terrence L Ing as Head of Credit.
Ing will identify opportunities for activism within the corporate credit market, including investment grade credits that could re-rate to high-yield, and in companies with financial statements that obscure economic reality through heavy use of financial engineering. Ing will also assist Muddy Waters with expressing its views through derivatives and various securities across the capital structure.
Prior to Muddy Waters, Ing served as a portfolio manager and senior analyst for PIMCO's USD3.3 billion Global Credit Opportunity Hedge Fund, where he focused on cross sector credit
- 12/05/2016
April hedge fund returns were generally positive with 2/3 of reporting funds up during the month, but smaller funds outperformed larger managers, a trend which has persisted throughout the year, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Performance report.
Commodity funds excelled in April and distressed funds rebounded for a second consecutive month. There were pockets of losses from macro and large managed futures funds which weighed on industry returns.
Commodity hedge funds produced average aggregate returns of +4.10 per cent in April, bringing YTD returns to +6.01 per cent. The group benefitted from a surge of higher prices across the
- 12/05/2016
China is in the midst of a poor-quality rebound, says Geraud Charpin, Portfolio Manager, BlueBay…
Risk assets were trading weaker in the past week amidst volatility in currencies, an unconvincing earnings trend dotted with notable misses and the realisation that asset prices have gone up again while global economic conditions are getting more stretched rather than stronger. A number of themes were discussed across desks and it is macro themes rather than bottom up stories occupying the minds of our analysts.
There are a lot of discussions across the firm about whether China should matter in the here and
- 12/05/2016
Professor Riccardo Rebonato, a specialist in interest rate risk modelling with applications to bond portfolio management and fixed-income derivatives pricing, has joined EDHEC-Risk Institute. He has also joined the EDHEC Faculty.
Professor Rebonato was previously Global Head of Rates and FX Research at PIMCO. He also served as Head of Front Office Risk Management and Head of Clients Analytics, Global Head of Market Risk and Global Head of Quantitative Research at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). Prior joining RBS, he was Head of Complex IR Derivatives Trading and Head of Head of Derivatives Research at Barclays Capital. Riccardo Rebonato has
- 11/05/2016
Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has selected Fortinet to optimise key aspects of the firm’s email and network security, and enable enhanced cybersecurity capabilities for client firms.
The deal has seen Options deploy Fortinet’s end-to-end, next generation firewall solution known as FortiGate and industry leading, email security platform, FortiMail, to heighten protection against spam, malware and other message-borne threats.
Fortinet‘s solutions, which protect the most valuable assets of some of the largest enterprise, service provider and government organizations across the globe, have been deployed right across Options’ suite of managed infrastructure
- 11/05/2016
Both the National Futures Association (NFA) and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) are becoming increasingly active in assessing the ‘cyber preparedness’ of registered investment advisers, using specialist IT teams to conduct audits.
The SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations examined 49 registered investment advisers and 57 registered broker dealers in 2014 and in January 2015 reported that 74 per cent of the registrants interviewed experienced a cyber-related incident.
On 1 March 2016 the National Futures Association formerly introduced the Cybersecurity Interpretive Notice. Cybersecurity risk assessments with regular reviews, written information security policies, staff training, vendor due diligence, deployment
- 11/05/2016
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