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The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up 0.3 per cent in March, with nine out of 11 Lyxor Indices ending the month in positive territory, according the April edition of the Lyxor Alternative Industry Barometer. The Lyxor LS Equity Long Bias Index (+2.3 per cent), the Lyxor Fixed Income Arbitrage Index (+2.1 per cent), and the Lyxor Special Situations Index (+1.4 per cent) were the best performers. Monetary meetings, minutes, and speeches continued to dominate market trends. The ECB and the Fed were more dovish than expected, boosting risky assets. A majority of hedge funds strategies delivered positive returns led
Hedge funds are adapting their business operations in response to changing investor dynamics. As the convergence between the two worlds of hedge funds and traditional long-only funds continues to draw closer into a unified orbit, one of the challenges that managers will need to embrace is how to interact with investors; especially Millennial investors who have grown up with the internet and communicate almost exclusively using web applications.  Asset managers who are best able to utilise technology to interact, share ideas/solutions and design portfolios for this next wave of investors will likely be tomorrow’s winners. “Millennials prefer to find things
A new report from the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) and the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has outlined the legislative requirements and market-based tools available to manage liquidity risk in investment funds in Europe.  The report also offers some recommendations to further improve the general liquidity management environment.                                                                                                  
Multi-strategy hedge fund manager Elliott Management Corporation, which holds an approximately 6.6 per cent interest in Polycom, Inc common stock and an approximately 9.7 per cent interest in Mitel Networks common stock has announced its support for the Mitel-Polycom transaction. “The combination of Mitel and Polycom makes perfect strategic and financial sense,” says Jesse Cohn, senior portfolio manager at Elliott. “The combined business will have far greater scale than either company alone, the ability to deliver a full array of products to customers, and the means to invest behind product areas that will provide stability and growth for the future.
When considering how to "supercharge" the alternative funds industry, one region that continues to offer growth potential is Emerging Markets. There are myriad opportunities to harvest yield, but equally there are plenty of risks to navigate. As such, fund managers will need to take a measured, country-by-country, sector-by-sector approach in 2016 to realise gains.  As Paul Schulte, Founder and Editor of Schulte Research commented on one of the panel sessions at CAIS 2016: "Alibaba in China is going to become one of the largest banks and media companies in the world. At the same time, I would suggest that the
CONCERT Global, a Silicon Valley-based advisory technology firm, has formed an alliance with iCapital Network to deliver a complete alternative investments solution to CONCERT’s growing network of independent advisors and broker/dealers. “Alternative investments can play a critical role in a well-constructed portfolio but, until recently, haven’t been readily accessible to all advisory professionals and their qualified clients,” says Felipe Luna, CEO of CONCERT Global Group, Ltd. “iCapital Network has created an elegant solution that eliminates the historical barriers to this important asset class and fits seamlessly with our platform and mission to help advisors scale, grow and deliver the highest-quality
Man Group has reported funds under management (FUM) of USD78.6 billion as at 31 March 2016, down slightly from the company’s 31 December total of USD78.7 billion. Net inflows in the quarter totaled USD0.5 billion, comprising sales of USD5.1 billion and redemptions of USD4.6 billion.  Net inflows across quant alternative (USD1.3 billion) and for quant long only strategies (USD0.4 billion), were partially offset by net outflows from discretionary alternative (USD0.6 billion), discretionary long only (USD0.5 billion), and guaranteed products (USD0.1 billion). Net flows for fund of fund alternatives remained flat for the quarter, while overall investment movement in the quarter was
Park Square Capital Partners has launched its third subordinated debt fund, securing EUR1.2 billion of investor commitments with advice from Carey Olsen's investment fund specialists. The fund, Park Square Capital Partners III, will continue the strategy of investing in the debt of high-quality levered companies backed by leading private equity sponsors across Europe and the US. The fund is able to use leverage taking its total investable capital to EUR1.5 billion. The predecessor fund, Park Square Capital Partners II, which is a 2010 vintage fund, closed at EUR850 million. Carey Olsen partner Andrew Boyce (pictured) and senior associate Alex Mauger
Interactive Data, a provider of fixed-income evaluated pricing, and subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has made its Liquidity Indicators Service available for European and Asia-Pacific corporate and sovereign securities.  This represents an expansion of its North American services, and leverages the same fixed-income evaluated pricing and reference data content that supports pricing and trading functions at the world’s leading financial institutions and asset managers. The launch of European Liquidity Indicators supports firms’ liquidity risk management needs across a range of market conditions. The indicators include estimates of the projected trade volume capacity of a fixed income security, which can be
The independent Directors/Trustees of the Lord Abbett Family of Funds have appointed Mark A Schmid and Douglas B Sieg to serve on the funds’ Board.  These appointments – effective 20 April, 2016, for Schmid, and 24 February, 2016 for Sieg – expand the number of Directors/Trustees, from nine to 11. Currently, Schmid is Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of the University of Chicago, a position he has held since 2009. His experience as a financial executive spans almost three decades, including prior roles as Chief Investment Officer at both Boeing Company and DaimlerChrysler. Schmid earned an MBA in finance

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