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The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for March 2016 measured 0.90 per cent, while hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index declined 0.95 per cent in April.
“Reflecting typical seasonal patterns, SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index declined in April 2016, coming in at -0.95 per cent, compared to 0.75 per cent for March 2016. However, it should be noted that the -0.95 per cent for April 2016 compares favorably on a year-over-year basis to -1.20 per cent for April of 2015,” says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
- 13/04/2016
One of the biggest drivers of change in the alternative funds market in recent years has been large institutions investing directly into large blue chip managers, concentrating 80 per cent of the industry's total AUM in the upper decile of fund managers. Consequently, it could be argued that hedge funds have morphed in recent years into something that no longer represents the original essence of what a hedge fund was meant to be.
Hedge funds used to be about making money. "Now it is about reducing volatility and generating risk-adjusted returns. The only ones really trying to make proper returns
- 13/04/2016
- 13/04/2016
Corporate, private client and funds company Hawksford has made three associate director promotions.
Rachel Keates (pictured), who joined Hawksford’s private client team in 2012, is responsible for the strategic operational development of the private client team and the wider company, ensuring both are well positioned to respond to the changing needs of an evolving marketplace. In addition to her client-facing role, she has been instrumental in formulating Hawksford’s response to developing international regulation, including FATCA and the Common Reporting Standard.
Since joining the company in 2014, Cherith Fothergill has developed Hawksford’s profile and positioning in Asia, including the launch of
- 13/04/2016
IPC Systems has partnered with Algomi, a network company providing information-matching solutions for the optimisation of fixed income liquidity, to deliver DealCall, an application which will run over IPC's Financial Markets Cloud.
DealCall will be integrated into both Algomi's award-winning Honeycomb platform and IPC's community of financial market participants, enabling Honeycomb users to swiftly and securely connect to their dealers.
IPC and Algomi are working together to enable seamless communication for buy-side users of the Honeycomb application. With one click, users can access on-demand connectivity to their chosen sales coverage teams at their chosen banks. By bringing together the IPC
- 13/04/2016
Markit’s FX pricing distribution hub service has added the Moscow Exchange (MOEX) to its network of trading venues, providing FX market participants worldwide cost effective trading access to one of the world’s fastest growing exchanges.
MOEX’s FX ruble market volumes increased 37 per cent in 2015 and FX derivatives volumes increased 112 per cent, driven by both on-shore and quickly rising offshore customer flows.
Markit’s FX customers will benefit from plug and play connectivity to MOEX for price distribution and liquidity sourcing, as well as comprehensive post trade processing. Firms outside Russia will gain efficient access to Russian ruble
- 13/04/2016
CME Group has cleared its first interest rate swaptions trade and in doing so become the forst clearing house to offer swaptions clearing.
Five clearing members are approved to clear swaptions, including Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi and RBS plc. Several additional firms are working through the process to become approved swaptions clearing members.
"This groundbreaking solution is designed to help transform the interest rate swaps landscape for CME Group's customers by offering greater capital efficiencies and helping mitigate counterparty risk," says Sunil Cutinho, President of CME Clearing. "Delivering innovative products and services that meet our customers' evolving needs is at
- 13/04/2016
Wilshire Associates Incorporated has launched Wilshire Omnia, a single platform, fully integrated solution that delivers comprehensive portfolio risk analysis, attribution and performance measurement across markets and asset classes.
Incorporating state-of-the-art, multi-asset class analytics, and an intuitive user experience, Wilshire Omnia is designed to streamline the investment decision process with a flexible and scalable platform. The solution offers security-level risk characteristics and reporting for more than three million securities and is designed to help clients maximise returns and mitigate risk.
“Managing investment risk successfully in today’s markets requires the ability to monitor multiple factors with a robust set of analytics that
- 13/04/2016
Nathan Schleifer and his company, Galileo Trading, LLC (Galileo) are to pay more than USD1.6 million to settle US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charges that they fraudulently solicited customers to trade commodity futures.
Schleifer and Galileo will jointly pay restitution to defrauded customers of USD1,150,618.28, a USD420,000 civil monetary penalty, and USD38,022 in disgorgement of ill-gotten gains. The CFTC has also imposed permanent registration and trading bans on Schleifer and Galileo and they must cease and desist from further violations of the Commodity Exchange Act, as charged.
The CFTC charges sate that from at least 1999 through 2014, Schleifer
- 13/04/2016
Investment manager Ramius has partnered with Samantha Greenberg's newly-launched Margate Capital, a multi-sector equity long/short alternative asset manager. Ramius is providing seed capital to the new joint-venture.
Founded this year, Margate will pursue a fundamental long/short equity strategy emphasising catalysts and sector themes and will deploy a rules-based risk approach to protect capital and reduce volatility. Greenberg is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Margate, a woman-owned investment management business. Before she founded Margate, Greenberg served as partner and media/consumer sector head on the investment team of Paulson & Co Inc, where she managed equity investments in media,
- 13/04/2016
The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark posted 2.82 per cent in March, the best monthly return for the asset class since January 2012 (+3.06 per cent), and only the third positive monthly return since May 2015.
All leading hedge fund strategies posted gains, with equity strategies seeing the highest returns of 3.79 per cent. However, after posting negative returns in the previous two months, performance for equity strategies funds in 2016 YTD stands at -1.10 per cent, the worst of any leading strategy. Overall, hedge funds are still showing negative performance for the year, with losses of 0.28 per cent
- 13/04/2016
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