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100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF) has selected The Women’s Foundation (TWF) as its 2016 philanthropic beneficiary in Hong Kong.  100WHF is a global, practitioner-driven non-profit organisation which serves more than 13,000 alternative investment management investors and professionals through educational, professional leverage and philanthropic initiatives. To date, 100WHF has raised US$38 million (gross) for charitable causes.   100WHF’s mission was established in 2001 on three core pillars: Education, Peer Leverage and Philanthropy. 100WHF's philanthropic mission is to leverage its members’ collective abilities and expertise in order to give back to the global community among three annually rotating themes: Education, Mentoring,
The attraction for private equity as an alternative asset class is as strong as perhaps it has ever been. As the results of a recent E&Y survey reveal (Positioning to win: 2015 global private equity survey), 19 per cent of investors said they currently allocate up to 5 per cent of capital to private equity, but 39 per cent said they allocate more than 25 per cent.  This is encouraging news for private equity managers, but with it comes extra responsibility as investors and regulators alike ramp up their due diligence. Indeed whereas only 28 per cent of managers said
Quod Financial has partnered with SR Labs to use the firm’s SuperFeed product to enhance its turnkey low latency solutions in smart order routing, algorithmic and automated trading. SR Labs delivers the widest range of normalised market data solutions via its flagship SuperFeed data feed and its Direct Feed Handler products. These are complemented by a range of supporting enterprise products, including the DART entitlements system and Data Fabric middleware, underpinned by the OpenMAMA API.  Quod’s Adaptive Execution Platform and its applications are now integrated with the OpenMAMA API. Ian McIntyre, COO Europe at SR Labs, says: “The combination of
Increased confidence in the Channel Islands’ funds sector is reflected in positive year-end figures from both Guernsey and Jersey, says Ogier funds partner Simon Schilder. The year-end figures for Guernsey funds under management and administration increased by 1.2 per cent to reach GBP2.7 billion over the fourth quarter of 2015 and GBP8.2 billion (3.7 per cent) year-on-year to reach GBP227.6 billion. Jersey’s statistics revealed a GBP7 billion increase over the quarter – though a GBP3 billion loss year-on-year – to GBP225.8 billion in regulated funds under administration. Schilder says: “ESMA’s positive recommendation of Jersey and Guernsey for the extension of
Eurex Clearing is to launch a new membership type that allows buy-side participants to have a direct contractual relationship with the clearinghouse facilitated by a clearing agent.  The so-called ISA Direct service addresses changes in the regulatory landscape and will contribute to the safety, robustness and efficiency of the overall market. For buy-side firms, ISA Direct is a unique way to meet new regulatory requirements with reduced counterparty risk and strong protection for their assets. For clearing agents, the new service eases the adaptation to the new capital rules as it frees up equity capital currently required for client’s business
Specialist equity boutique Ardevora Asset Management has passed the five-year anniversary for its fund range, with each of its distinctive strategies significantly outperforming its respective benchmark since inception. Ardevora’s investment team, which now manages in excess of GBP3 billion of assets, consists of founders Jeremy Lang and William Pattisson and fellow partners Ben Fitchew and Gianluca Monaco. The team’s unique investment process is grounded in cognitive psychology and aims to exploit biases inherent in the three participants in equity markets: company management, analysts and investors. Since its launch on 11 January 2011, the GBP213 million Ardevora UK Income Fund delivered
Theodore “Ted” Tulpan has joined MUFG Union Bank as managing director and team lead for the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) within Transaction Banking.  Tulpan is responsible for developing the bank’s transaction banking business with financial institutions, including banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds, insurance and title companies, and financial exchanges. He manages a national team of sales professionals and associates. Tulpan is based in New York and reports to Charles “Chaz” Present, managing director US Wholesale Banking Treasury Services.    In addition, Zafer Uysal has joined the bank as vice president and sales officer for the Financial Institutions Group. Uysal is responsible
Omni Partners (Omni) has launched the Omni Macro UCITS Fund (UCITS Fund) on the IAM Investments ICAV platform. It will follow a similar strategy to Omni’s existing commingled offshore fund, the Omni Macro Fund. Omni Macro is a trading-orientated discretionary global macro strategy that pursues thematic and tactical opportunities in liquid products (foreign exchange, commodities, interest rates, equity indices) whilst retaining a disciplined risk management ideology. The portfolio is highly concentrated, typically pursuing a small number of core trading strategies (generally between two and five) at any given time, with each strategy tending to include a limited number of line
Placement agent Eaton Partners is to open its seventh international office in Chicago in April 2016. This new office – which joins Eaton Partners' current offices in Hong Kong, Houston, London, Rowayton, San Diego, and Shanghai – will help further develop the firm’s global investor network and placement capabilities.  Managing Director Christopher Maduri will lead the new location within the Stifel Financial Corporation's Chicago office space located at 70 W Madison Street. "We see tremendous value in having an on-the-ground presence in Chicago as it allows us to further strengthen client and institutional investor relationships in the region," says Peter
Anchin, Block & Anchin has appointed Jared Feldman as Co-Practice Leader of Anchin Private Client, a specialty group within the firm devoted to working with affluent clients.  Feldman specialises in providing a wide array of accounting tax, advisory and family office services for high net worth individuals including financial services and corporate executives, owners of privately held companies and established family offices. Feldman joins Ehud (Udi) Sadan as Co-Practice Leader of Anchin Private Client, one of the largest practice groups at the firm. "As a partner and member of the Private Client steering committee, Jared has been instrumental to the

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