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Investment management firm Brinker Capital has made changed to its investment team with Chief Investment Officer, Bill Miller resigning with immediate effect. Jeff Raupp, currently Senior Investment Manager, and Chris Hart, currently Core Investment Manager, have been promoted to Senior Vice Presidents and have assumed leadership of Brinker Capital’s investment team on an interim basis, reporting to Chuck Widger, Executive Chairman.  “The management team at Brinker Capital is very confident with the leadership in place and therefore, has an open timeline for finding the right fit for the role of Chief Investment Officer,” says Widger. Jason Moore, formerly Managing Director
At a time when the world is grappling with zero inflation, near-zero interest rates and oil prices at a 12-year low, one could be forgiven for thinking that the alternative investment funds (AIF) industry might be supercharging in reverse.  If anything, however, the opposite is true. The AIF brand continues to build and attract new investors.  Retail AIFs are on the rise thanks to the liquid alternatives revolution and total AUM in the AIF industry is forecast to reach USD13 trillion by 2020, accounting for 40 per cent of the investment fund industry's assets and 70 per cent of its
Linedata has completed the acquisition of Derivation, a specialist provider of risk, analytics, and portfolio management solutions to institutional and hedge fund managers.  This acquisition immediately enhances Linedata’s comprehensive, global platform across its clients’ entire investment process with support for all asset types and structures.   Derivation provides advanced risk and portfolio management, performance measurement, and powerful reporting tools. Linedata will integrate these capabilities into Linedata’s Global Hedge and Longview Asset Management solutions.   With this acquisition, Linedata affirms its strategy of being a leader in Asset Management. In addition to directly bringing Derivation’s solutions on board, this year Linedata
Financial software company Misys has appointed Mourad Ayachi as European Head of Professional Services and Bob Kubala as Regional Sales Manager for North America for its Investment Management division.  Both will support the Misys FusionInvest product suite, a fully integrated portfolio and risk management system for buy-side firms.   Mourad Ayachi joins Misys from Murex where he was Program Director for Europe and North Africa. He started his career in investment banking at Indosuez and joined Murex in 1998 where he held a number of senior positions and was a founding member of its Professional Services business.   “Misys has
March was the best month for aggregate hedge fund performance in two years and some segments, notably activist, credit and emerging markets funds, performed extremely well, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Industry Performance Report. For the quarter, overall industry returns were negative, the industry’s first negative Q1 since 2009 and only its second on record.  Activist hedge funds produced their best monthly performance in March since 2010. Gains from the concentrated, equity/capital structure-focused funds of +5.35 per cent were enough to bring Q1 2016 into positive territory. Activist managers have been through a difficult stretch, declining an average of
Emerging Markets hedge funds posted strong gains in March, leading industry-wide gains as equity and commodity markets reversed early quarter declines to conclude the first quarter, according to data released today by HFR. The HFRI Emerging Markets Index advanced +6.9 per cent for the month, offsetting steep losses from January and bringing YTD performance to +0.8 per cent. March represents the strongest month of performance for Emerging Markets (EM) since the Index gained +9.6 per cent in May 2009.  Hedge funds posted strong gains across Equity, Event Driven and Relative Value strategies, with the HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index® advancing
Blackstone Alternative Investment Advisors (BAIA), an affiliate of Blackstone’s hedge fund solutions business, will be closing the Blackstone Alternative Multi-Manager Fund (BXMMX), the smaller of its two mutual fund products.  Blackstone launched BXMMX in August of 2013 as a dedicated vehicle for Fidelity Investments. As of 31 March, 2016, the AUM of BXMMX was USD631 million. Blackstone will liquidate the fund on or before 31 May, 2016. BXMMX sought capital appreciation through a diversified global set of exposures, traded by alternative asset managers, which demonstrated relatively low beta to traditional markets and produced attractive risk-adjusted performance. BXMMX is operated as
Violent swings across financial markets have forced investors to re-evaluate portfolio allocations, as well as hedging practices. TABB Group’s new Market Note,“Broken Hedges: Credit Traders and the Lure of Equity Options,” examines why credit investors are turning to equity options as hedging tools, and what specific products these investors are using the most. Report author Callie Bost reports that while the US corporate bond market is expanding, the availability of credit-default swaps (CDS) is dwindling. Last year, the notional value outstanding in the US corporate bond market was USD8.1 trillion, more than double the amount in 2002, according to Federal
Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has launched the second phase of its Proof-of-Concept (PoC) to examine the applicability of blockchain technology for securities markets. This project will be done in collaboration with Asia’s leading exchange group, Japan Exchange Group. (JPX). Through this partnership, NRI and JPX will assess the usability as well as the challenges of blockchain technology when applied to securities markets. Along with JPX, the PoC will be supported by Nomura Securities, SBI Securities, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and others, to ensure the study is explored from various perspectives. The PoC will mainly examine business scenarios and validation items,
Calamos Investments has added to its liquid alternatives offering with the launch of the Calamos Phineus Long/Short Fund, a global long/short mutual fund.  The fund's launch follows the September 2015 acquisition of San Francisco-based Phineus Partners by Calamos Investments. Michael Grant, Senior Vice President and Senior Co-Portfolio Manager, launched Phineus' Long/Short hedge fund in 2002 and will manage this new mutual fund with the same investment approach. Because the approach and GIPS-compliant investment history of Phineus Partners' long/short hedge fund is consistent with the transparency and liquidity requirements of a '40 Act fund, the new mutual fund will retain the

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