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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has announced that Avox Data Services, a specialist in legal entity reference data, has successfully researched and published two million entities globally in its database.
The number of researched entities continues to rise as more and more market participants rely on DTCC to help them meet their risk management and regulatory reporting obligations, including Dodd-Frank, European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Transaction Reporting, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) and other mandates.
DTCC’s Avox Data Services is leveraged by financial firms worldwide to source and maintain accurate legal entity
- 15/01/2016
2015 was a record breaking year for Electra Information Systems (Electra), a provider of software solutions for the asset management industry, including institutional investment managers, hedge funds, insurance companies and plan sponsors,
Since its inception in 1998, Electra has been guided by a single, client-driven principle – efficient processing is critical to success. As the market continued to increase in complexity in 2015, demand for automated post-trade operation and robust data management solutions quickly rose, increasing Electra’s client base by 20 per cent. While all its solutions contributed to Electra’s growth in 2015, particular strength was evident in Electra’s reconciliation
- 14/01/2016
JMP Group’s hedge fund and investment arm Harvest Capital Strategies has raised USD245 million for the Harvest Intrexon Enterprise Fund, an investment vehicle dedicated to funding companies that utilise the inventions, discoveries and technologies of Intrexon Corporation, a specialist in synthetic biology.
The Harvest Intrexon Enterprise Fund will invest exclusively in entities that utilise Intrexon’s technology, with a particular focus on new companies, to spur the creation of biologically-based products across a number of sectors, which may include healthcare, food, agriculture, energy, environment, chemicals and consumer products. The fund has made two investments to date: Thrive Agrobiotics, Inc, a startup entity
- 14/01/2016
European equities still present an attractive potential over the long term, but according to systematic analysis used by Quaero Capital’s Argos European Systematic Long Short Equity fund, the optimum market timing conditions to go net Long have not materialised.
For some time the fund’s net investment rate has been 0 per cent (50 per cent long stocks and 50 per cent Short Eurostoxx 50 futures), which has contributed to strong outperformance relative to the HFRX Equity Hedge EUR Index.
Year to date, the fund returned +6.56 per cent, compared to –3.09 per cent for the Index. Since inception
- 14/01/2016
The Archstone Partnerships, an alternative investment management firm focused exclusively on hedge fund investments, has extended its investment offerings for the first time to accredited investors through the Archstone Alternative Solutions Fund.
Capitalizing on over 25 years of experience and offering unique access to leading hedge fund managers, the Archstone Alternative Solutions Fund seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation while attempting to reduce volatility relative to the equity markets.
The Archstone Alternative Solutions Fund employs a fund of hedge funds strategy that was previously only available to qualified purchasers. It is now available to a broader group of investors
- 14/01/2016
Sapient Global Markets, a provider of business technology and consulting services for the capital and commodity markets, has launched of CMRS Portal, delivering the proven trade reporting capabilities of CMRS as a fully outsourced solution.
For firms with a lower volume of reportable derivatives trades, in-house solutions or on premise software is uneconomic due to the initial investment required and ongoing maintenance and support overheads. CMRS Portal is designed as a self-service solution for firms who require a low-touch approach to reporting compliance with the smallest possible infrastructure and integration investment.
“Trade reporting has been and continues to be
- 14/01/2016
S W Mitchell Capital, a London-based European equity specialist, has been appointed by Balter Liquid Alternatives to sub-advise a new '40 Act liquid alternatives fund.
The Balter European L/S Small Cap Fund, which launched on 31 December, 2015, provides US investors with access to S W Mitchell Capital’s concentrated bottom-up stock picking expertise.
S W Mitchell Capital partner and investment manager Jamie Carter, who has been managing dedicated long/short European smaller company strategies for more than eight years, brings almost two decades of investment experience to stock selection on the new strategy.
The Balter European L/S Small Cap
- 13/01/2016
The Cayman Alternative Investment Summit (CAIS) has become an authoritative platform for fresh thinking on alternative investing and 2016 is set to raise the bar another notch higher.
Taking place at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel between 4 and 5 February 2016, Grand Cayman, the theme of CAIS 2016 is “Alternative Investments: Supercharged”.
Looking at some of the issues the funds industry has faced over the last couple of years, from an economic perspective there’s been significant quantitative easing, high asset prices, issues around commodities, and more recently a big question mark over China’s economy.
In the opinion of Anthony Cowell, Partner and Head
- 13/01/2016
QIC – a global diversified alternative investment firm – has appointed Eric Belman to the QIC Global Infrastructure team in its newly-established New York office.
Belman will lead the firm’s infrastructure origination, investment and execution efforts in North America. QIC is one of Australia’s largest institutional investment managers, offering infrastructure, real estate, private equity, liquid strategies and multi-asset investments.
Belman’s appointment is part of QIC’s geographic expansion strategy and further deepens the firm’s sector expertise in the infrastructure space. This hiring follows the appointment in March 2015 of Giles Tucker in London to develop QIC’s European infrastructure investments efforts
- 13/01/2016
- 13/01/2016
Elian has strengthened its recently launched commercial team with two senior appointments.
Lisa Mclauchlan has been appointed business development and marketing director, and Mari Hietala-David (pictured, with Mclauchlan) has been appointed to oversee marketing and business development for private equity and real estate funds.
Both positions are in Elian’s commercial team, which is responsible for the continual development of new products, and driving business growth and market share, whilst maintaining high levels of client service across the globe.
As part of the newly created role, Mclauchlan will oversee all marketing and business development activity across Elian’s service lines
- 13/01/2016
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