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Peregrine Communications is an international, asset management marketing communications specialist, providing brand building, brand protection and lead generation services to help clients grow AUM. It has been delivering integrated marketing communications for hedge funds since 2002, supporting an increasingly international client base from its primary offices in London and New York.
Factor in that Peregrine has a bench of senior advisors, including Savuti's founder, Ben Scales, Tim Bell, former Head of Alternatives at UBS, and Rob Allard, former head of structured products at Goldman Sachs, and one can appreciate the weight of expertise Peregrine clients have at their disposal.
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Piquant Technologies' Pegasus Fund launched in 2013 and has delivered stable and diversifying returns annualising at just over 10 per cent. Piquant runs a fully automated portfolio, gaining trading insights by applying machine-learning techniques to huge datasets.
The model uses multiple signals and as Piquant's Chief Investment Officer James Holloway (pictured) comments: "It's hard to find new signals and it's even harder to aggregate all that information and know what to do with it; not only to try and determine which way the markets are going to go, but also to make predictions about risks, costs, and liquidity.
"We have
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Multi-award-winning hedge fund administrator Opus Fund Services was established in Bermuda in 2006, subsequently expanding its footprint into the US with offices in Chicago (2008), San Francisco (2009), New York (2013) and Portland (2014). It serves over 275 fund managers and 400+ funds with a combined AUM exceeding USD10.5bn.
Last year saw another flurry of activity among hedge fund administrators, both large and small, and for a mid-sized administrator with an institutional offering, Opus was able to reap the benefits; this was partly due to M&A activity, and partly due to banking groups deciding to focus on other areas of
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The IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF (`QAI') seeks to replicate the risk-adjusted return characteristics of hedge funds using multiple hedge fund investment styles, including long/short equity, global macro, market neutral, event-driven, fixed income arbitrage, and emerging markets.
Since its inception in 2009, QAI has outperformed the Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index during all 12 rising rate periods. Based on IndexIQ's proprietary rules-based process, QAI rebalances exposures across the broad hedge fund strategies to respond to the changing dynamics of the market. To clarify, QAI does not invest in hedge funds and the Index it tracks (IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Index) does
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2015 proved to be an excellent year for HedgeMark. Since BNY Mellon's acquisition of HedgeMark in May 2014, it's thesis regarding the strategic value of housing a dedicated managed account business within a global asset servicing organisation has been validated.
"Being tied to a global financial institution is a critical factor when investors are evaluating dedicated managed account (DMA) providers. Last year, we closed several new dedicated managed account (DMA) clients and launched more than 20 new DMAs for existing and new clients, who are shifting from commingled hedge fund investments into hedge fund managed accounts," comments Andrew Lapkin, CEO
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DMS Offshore Investment Services specialises in providing global fund governance with the firm best regarded for the provision of offshore independent directors in the Cayman Islands. The second core business line is its UCITS and AIFMD management company and platform based in Dublin and Luxembourg. The interest in the platform has accelerated this year to the point where the management company has secured more than 60 fund mandates with close to 40 launched.
"In addition, we have over 100 risk clients to whom we are providing a range of risk and reporting services," comments CEO, Anne Storie (pictured). She continues:
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Hendrik Klein and his team at Zurich-based Da Vinci Invest AG have been trading futures on Eurex since 1995, using a sophisticated algorithm to track economic indicators. In 2009, when Need to Know News brought out a computer-readable news feed, Klein immediately implemented it into the Da Vinci algorithm.
The proprietary strategy that resulted was highly successful, generating nearly 14 per cent between August and December of 2009. On 1st June 2011, the strategy, which scans newsfeeds for econometric indicators such as non-farm payroll data, US unemployment figures to trade as soon as there are discrepancies between the consensus view
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Whereas previously investment managers might have looked at risk from a `check-the-box' perspective, today's regulatory environment and the growing sophistication of institutional investors is requiring them take it more seriously. There is, according to Bennett Egeth, President of Broadridge Investment Management Solutions, a need to generate consistent, reproducible risk reporting for regulators.
"Risk requirements have a ripple effect with managers having to explain how they arrived at the risk numbers being reported. They're detailing what their assumptions were in calculating risk, how those assumptions have changed (if at all) from the previous quarterly filings, and where the data came from
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Blue Diamond Asset Management is an independent privately owned company based in Pfaffikon, Switzerland. The team of 4 investment professionals and one COO has a singular focus on the Non-Directional strategy. The strategy uses systematic, proprietary investment processes to capture opportunities arising in the equity volatility markets to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns. Since the strategy launched on 30 September, 2011 it has generated a gross annualised return of 31.9 per cent, 21.6 per cent net.
The fund itself commenced trading on 1st May, 2012. To demonstrate the robustness of the strategy, it has generated +0.7 per cent average monthly return
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2015 was a big year for Concept Capital Markets, LLC having entered into an agreement to be acquired by Cowen Group, a leading growth investment bank and alternative investment firm with a heritage dating back to 1918. The transaction was completed 1 September 2015 and thanks to the significant financial and intellectual resources that Cowen has at its disposal, the newly named `Cowen Prime Services’ division is now well positioned, and resourced, to further expand its prime brokerage offering.
“The acquisition is a validation of Concept Capital’s capabilities in the marketplace and a realisation that with the firms’ shared view with respect
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