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Collins Capital’s Long/Short Credit Fund (CCLIX/CLCAX), a mutual fund offering a true long/short credit strategy that dynamically adjusts exposure throughout the credit cycle, has passed its one year anniversary. "We are very pleased with how well the Fund protected capital for clients and outperformed during this tumultuous fixed income environment," says Dorothy Weaver, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Collins Capital. "After years of wide open credit markets, suppressed volatility, low interest rates, and the tide essentially lifting all boats, the high yield market has quickly reversed course and we are finally starting to see fundamentals matter
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was down 0.9 per cent in February, with just three out of the 11 Lyxor sub-indices ending the month in positive territory, according to Lyxor’s latest Alternative Investment Industry Barometer. The Lyxor CTA Long Term Index (+2.2 per cent), the Lyxor Merger Arbitrage Index (+0.5 per cent), and the Lyxor LS Equity Long Bias Index (+0.4 per cent) were the best performers.   The rally by mid-February triggered multiple macro and sector rotations. The selling pressure exhausted by mid-month. The rally in risky assets unfolded in poor trading volumes as most market players were initially
ICAP Global Broking has expanded its electronic capabilities with the launch of TrueQuote, a new portal for buy side clients. The portal, which will offer a number of multi asset class solutions over the coming months, launches with its first fixed income solution, CrossTrade. Working in partnership with fixed-income data provider, Interactive Data, CrossTrade is a workflow efficiency tool which enables buy side customers to execute cross trades at an independently determined mid-price. The first solution of its kind, CrossTrade will bring transparency, efficiency and standardisation to the execution of cross trades.   Due to the changing regulatory environment, it
Specialist asset manager Gresham House has appointed Richard Davidson (pictured) as Chair of the Investment Committee of its forestry management subsidiary, Aitchesse Ltd. He will also become Lead Fund Manager of the Gresham House Forestry Fund.  With a strong knowledge of and interest in forestry through his involvement in The Forestry Partnership, advised by Aitchesse, as both an investor and Investment Committee member, Ric Davidson hard will work alongside founder Digby Guy and the experienced forestry management team to establish and manage the Gresham House Forestry Fund.    Davidson has over twenty five years of experience in fund management in
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced that a federal court in Las Vegas, Nevada, issued a Consent Order requiring Defendants Oren Shabat Laurent of Israel and his companies ET Binary Options, of Israel, Banc de Binary of Cyprus, BO Systems of the Seychelles, and BDB Services of the Seychelles (collectively, Banc de Binary) are to pay USD7.1 million in restitution to US customers who traded illegal, off-exchange binary options offered by the defendants.    The Defendants have also been ordered to pay a USD2 million civil monetary penalty and hit with a permanent ban on offering or
Aspect Capital (Aspect), the USD6.6 billion systematic investment manager, has acquired Auriel Capital Management (Auriel) and hired the firm’s team. Asif Noor and Anoosh Lachin who founded Auriel in 2004, joined Aspect in February 2016 to develop systematic global macro and currency strategies.   Aspect has been looking for research expertise in diversifying investment strategy capabilities from a variety of external sources.  The scalability of the firm’s strong and flexible operational infrastructure has allowed them to undertake this strategic initiative.  As part of this, Aspect has identified a small number of experienced systematic managers with valuable investment expertise in strategies
Silva Venture Group has launched the Analyst's Arena, a mock portfolio competition designed to recruit new hedge fund analysts. In the hedge fund world, fund analysts are responsible for producing critical analyses that fund managers use to make multi-million dollar decisions for the portfolio’s positions. With this level of responsibility, hiring the perfect fund analyst is crucial to the success of the fund. The problem that funds run into is in sifting through the thousands of resumes they receive to find the perfect fund analyst; the proverbial needle in the haystack.   “The idea for the Analyst’s Arena just made
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order filing and simultaneously settling charges against CHS, Inc (CHS) over the inaccurate reporting of positions in corn and soybean purchases and sales, in violation of the reporting requirements in CFTC Regulation 19.01. CHS is based in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota. The CFTC’s Order also filed and simultaneously settled charges against CHS Hedging, LLC (CHS Hedging) (formerly CHS Hedging, Inc.), a CFTC-registered Futures Commission Merchant. CHS Hedging wilfully aided and abetted CHS’s violations and is liable for CHS’s violations, the CFTC Order finds. CHS Hedging is headquartered in St Paul,
The Securities and Exchange Commission has created the Office of Risk and Strategy within its Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations (OCIE). The new office will consolidate and streamline OCIE’s risk assessment, market surveillance, and quantitative analysis teams and provide operational risk management and organisational strategy for OCIE. Peter B Driscoll will lead the office and has been named as its first Chief Risk and Strategy Officer.  In this role, Driscoll will manage the new office and the Investment Adviser/Investment Company examination staff based in Washington, DC.   “The Office of Risk and Strategy will lead our exam program’s risk-based, data-driven,
AlphaSense, provider of the AlphaSense search engine for financial professionals, has secured USD33 million in growth capital from Tribeca Venture Partners, Triangle Peak Partners, and Quantum Strategic Partners – a private investment vehicle managed by Soros Fund Management – as well as notable individual investors such as Tom Glocer, formerly CEO of Thomson Reuters. AlphaSense launched its service in 2011 and today serves more than 400 investment firms, banks and corporations globally. AlphaSense will use the new capital for product advancement and for accelerating its growth in serving its core investment research and corporate intelligence markets, as well as its

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