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Mill Hill Capital has chosen and implemented Fund-Studio as its front to back office portfolio management, investor reporting and shadow accounting platform.
Objecutive, the provider of Fund-Studio, has implemented the platform with Mill Hill as a hosted solution leveraging the strong back up and support capabilities of Objecutive’s infrastructure.
Mill Hill Capital is a differentiated alternative investment management adviser that focuses on beta neutral strategies and identifies market dislocations during periods of volatility. Mill Hill Capital focuses on investments in corporate and securitised assets including bonds, credit default swaps and credit indices.
David Meneret, Chief Investment Officer and
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The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global representative body for alternative asset managers, has launched a set of Due Diligence Questionnaires (DDQs) for hedge fund directors.
These are the first set of AIMA DDQs – questionnaire templates that fund managers and investors use during their due diligence processes – relating to fund directors. They were produced by a working group of more than 30 AIMA member firms who consulted with investment managers, investors, individual directors and professional director services firms globally during the drafting process.
There are three versions of the new DDQ – an Illustrative Questionnaire for
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It is now one year in to the Swiss Collective Investment Scheme Act (CISA) and overall impressions appear to be that it has been a success. One particular aspect of CISA, namely the requirement for alternative fund managers marketing their funds in Switzerland to “unregulated qualified investors” (eg pension funds, family offices) to appoint a Swiss Fund Representative and Paying Agent, has proven to be no more than a mild shower in a teacup.
A year ago, fund managers were aghast at the idea of having to incur yet more regulatory costs, but those fears have proven to be largely
- 09/03/2016
DST kasina, a provider of data-driven insights and distribution solutions to financial companies around the world, thasoday released its fourth quarter DST kasina Asset Manager Composite results.
According to the report, operating margins for the 16 asset management firms that comprise the Composite fell to 33.5 per cent on a weighted basis for the quarter, down by 131 basis points from the prior quarter and 114 basis points from Q3 2015.
On a simple average basis, operating margins fell by 118 basis points sequentially and 182 basis points year over year.
According to the report, operating margins for
- 09/03/2016
CME Group is to begin clearing Interest Rate Swaptions on 11 April.
"CME Clearing is proud to be the first clearing house to deliver interest rate swaption clearing, a capital efficient clearing solution that has the opportunity to transform the interest rate swaps landscape for our customers," says Sunil Cutinho, President, CME Clearing. "Swaption clearing enables clients and dealers to substantially reduce their risk and gain margin efficiencies of up to 90 per cent by adding swaptions to their CME cleared interest rate swaps portfolios."
Five clearing members are approved to clear swaptions upon launch, with additional firms working through
- 09/03/2016
Twenty-eight of the world’s largest banks are participating in industrywide testing of the first ever Central Margining service for non-cleared OTC derivatives, which was released by AcadiaSoft and delivered in collaboration with TriOptima last month.
Industry testing of the AcadiaSoft Collateral Hub marks the successful completion of the first phase of a high profile industry initiative around electronic margin management announced last July. With the successful release and testing of two-way Central Margining for Initial Margin (IM), AcadiaSoft, in partnership with TriOptima, has confirmed usability for its platform for straight-through-processing of derivatives margins. The new service will facilitate industry compliance
- 09/03/2016
Cordium, a provider of regulatory compliance consulting, software, accounting and tax services to the asset management and securities industry, has appointed Brad Prodger as Vice President of Business Development, Strategic Partnerships and Distribution Channels.
Prodger is responsible for developing partnerships with custodians and broker dealers, as well as industry software vendors to distribute best of breed compliance management software and services to RIA and BD clients. Prodger will work with partner sales and account management teams to introduce Cordium software, training videos and a wide range of consulting services to enable them to establish highly efficient compliance programs.
- 09/03/2016
Custom House Global Fund Services, an independent hedge fund administration specialist, is expanding its sales and operations in North America with the appointment of Sebastien Sacre as Managing Director of the Chicago office – the US headquarters for Custom House – while John Lumley, has joined as the Head of Sales, Americas, based in New York.
"We are extremely pleased to have talent of the caliber of Sebastien and John join our global team and spearhead our operations and business development in the Americas," says Mark Hedderman, CEO, Custom House Global Fund Services. He added, "Sebastien is responsible for the
- 09/03/2016
Capital Support has been awarded with the Cyber Essentials Plus certificate, which is presented to organisations that have displayed a particularly high level of dedication towards maintaining a high standard of cybersecurity.
The Cyber Essentials Plus certificate is a government-backed scheme, first brought in as part of the UK National Cyber Security Strategy to combat cyber-crime, particularly in the business environment. With cyber-crime due to be introduced in the national crime statistics for the first time later this year, experts predict that the figures will double, reflecting a significant shift in recent years from street crime to online crime. The
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Drawing on data compiled for the 2016 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report, Preqin has created league tables of hedge funds that have most consistently delivered strong, stable performance.
These league tables do not seek in any way to endorse these funds, but rather to illustrate those that have performed the most consistently over the period January 2013 – December 2015. Seven top-level strategies are represented; equity strategies, macro strategies, event driven strategies, credit strategies, relative value strategies, multi-strategies and CTAs.
From its Hedge Fund Online database of over 14,000 hedge funds, Preqin ranked the 1,761 qualifying funds (those with
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