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Schroders has launches the Schroder Alternative Solutions Commodity Total Return, a new fund offering commodities exposure with a flexible approach, allowing it to take advantage of a wide range of opportunities, as well as limit downside risk.
The fund will invest in energy, agriculture and metals sectors worldwide and will adopt a highly flexible strategy which includes the ability to take short positions and the use of leverage.
The fund will be managed by Schroders’ commodities team, led by Geoff Blanning. Schroders has strengthened its investment resources in commodities in the past two years with the hiring of a Metals
- 28/04/2016
GAM, the independent, active investment manager, has appointed Tony Morton to its UK regional distribution team as a Client Manager.
Morton will be responsible for promoting GAM’s product range, including its single strategy funds and the GAM Model Portfolio Service to advisers and discretionary managers in the North West.
Prior to joining GAM, Morton was a regional sales manager at Coram Asset Management, covering the IFA and discretionary wholesale market in the North. Tony has previously worked for Premier Asset Management and Fidelity Investments in business development roles.
Morton will report to Douglas Branson (pictured), Head of UK Regional Distribution,
- 27/04/2016
- 27/04/2016
BNP Paribas Investment Partners, Odey Asset Management and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank are the newest members of the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) Investors in Financial Reporting programme.
The programme was established in 2014 to increase the Board’s engagement with the investment community. The new joiners bring the total number of investment organisations in the programme to 18. The other members of the programme are Aberdeen Asset Management, Allianz Global Investors, APG Asset Management, AustralianSuper, BlackRock, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Fidelity Worldwide Investment, Henderson Global Investors, Hermes Investment Management, Insight Investment, Lazard Asset Management, Nomura Asset
- 27/04/2016
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has gone live with expanded data on over-the-counter (OTC) trading in equity securities is now live, extending the authority’s trading-volume transparency to all of the OTC market.
With this enhancement, FINRA is supplementing the data that it currently makes available on trading by alternative trading systems (ATSs) including venues known as "dark pools" with new data on all other equities volume executed OTC by FINRA members (non-ATS OTC volume). The additional data covers approximately 20 percent of all trading volume in National Market System equities.
"Enhanced disclosure of over-the-counter trading serves the interests of
- 27/04/2016
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) in line with its growth strategy achieved record results in both sales and profits in 2015.
In the course of the year, EEX Group, now fully incorporated with the companies Powernext, EPEX SPOT and APX, implemented a series of measures which aimed to increase volumes in its core markets, while expanding its product portfolio into new regions and product classes.
EEX Group sales revenue increased by 147 per cent to a total of EUR190.4 million. Iris Weidinger, Chief Financial Officer of EEX, says: “The full consolidation of the new companies has made a significant contribution
- 27/04/2016
- 27/04/2016
The theory behind Moore’s Law is that computer processing power doubles every two years. And whilst technology advancements are benefiting global industry at large, within asset management it is beginning to blur the lines with respect to data and the myriad reports that regulators have required within recent years.
Pushing the rock
In short, it has become a Sisyphus-like challenge for asset managers—and will continue to be—as they bring on board new IT systems, and more reporting staff, in response to the reporting demands being placed on them. This is both a time and capital-intensive exercise.
However, this is not
- 27/04/2016
The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for April 2016 decreased to 109.1, down 5.7 points from March’s revised reading of 114.8. The decline in sentiment was driven by a decrease in the North American ICI from 123.7 to 115.
The Asian ICI decreased by 4.2 points to 107.8 while the European ICI fell the least, from 95.8 to 95.3.
The Investor Confidence Index was developed by Kenneth Froot and Paul O’Connell at State Street Associates, State Street Global Exchange’s research and advisory services business. It measures investor confidence or risk appetite quantitatively by analysing the actual buying and
- 27/04/2016
Nomura Research Institute (NRI) has begun the next phase of its I-STAR suite upgrades in preparation for the shortened settlement cycle of Japanese Government Bonds(JGB) to T+1 set by the Japan Securities Dealers Association (JSDA) Working Group scheduled for early 2018.
I-STAR suite, NRI’s ASP back-office solutions for securities firms, enables clients to respond to the major regulatory changes in a timely manner and improve the efficiency of operations, while also reducing the cost burden.
Of the I-STAR suite, this new upgrade will be applied to its I-STAR/LC product, NRI’s real-time clearing and settlement solution connected to the Bank of
- 27/04/2016
Citi Private Bank North America’s National Hedge Fund Sales Team, which focuses on the private banking needs of hedge fund founders, has grown by more than 50 per cent since inception in 2015 and currently has 140 hedge funds and their principals as clients.
The team is led by Keith Gertsen (pictured), Managing Director, Citi Private Bank, North America.
"Hedge fund principals have unique personal financial planning and investment needs, often with significant wealth concentrated in their funds. Our momentum in this space is a testament to our ability to deliver the full capabilities of our Institutional Clients Group platform
- 26/04/2016
Five new investment platforms have joined the Millennium Trust Company’s Millennium Alternative Investment Network (MAIN), bringing the total number listed to nine.
In addition to Lending Club (NYSE: LC), announced earlier this month, EquityZen, iCapital Network, Prodigy Network, and RJ Oasis are now available through MAIN.
Millennium Trust collaborates with leading online investment platforms and service providers to create solutions that use technology to provide qualified investors with an easy way to find and research alternative investments, and then purchase and custody the investment through their Millennium account.
Alternative assets are expected to grow to as much as USD15.3 trillion
- 26/04/2016
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