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Hedge fund compensation experienced mixed trends in 2015 as a challenging performance environment in the third quarter offset industry-wide gains from the first three months of the year, according to the 2016 Glocap Compensation Report.
The report, which is published in conjunction with HFR, suggest that volatile Q3 performance will likely contribute to lower bonuses for the most highly compensated, performance-sensitive roles including senior portfolio managers, traders and executives. Partially offsetting this trend, compensation and base salaries for mid- to lower-tiered employees, including analysts, operations and technology, increased in 2015, consistent with broader trends in US employment.
Glocap is
- 05/11/2015
Average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR7,735 million in October (-5 per cent compared with October 2014), marking a return to a normalised volume environment.
Activity in October 2014 was the highest level since August 2011, boosted at that time by volatile market conditions.
Activity on ETFs remained particularly dynamic during October 2015 with an average daily transaction value at EUR597 million, up 16 per cent compared to the activity peak of October 2014.
The average daily volume on equity index derivatives was down at 201,379 contracts (-39 per cent compared with
- 04/11/2015
Systematic Hedge fund manager Cantab Capital Partners and The University of Cambridge are launching a new institute which is aiming to push the boundaries of information science.
Established through philanthropic support of GBP5 million from Cambridge-based Cantab Capital Partners, the Cantab Capital Institute for the Mathematics of Information will sit within the University’s Faculty of Mathematics and will draw on fundamental techniques from mathematical sciences to tackle head on the challenge of deciphering meaning in the reams of data which surround us.
Bringing together some of the world’s leading academics in various related disciplines to advance understanding on multiple
- 04/11/2015
The GBP1.4 billion Clwyd Pension Fund has appointed Man FRM to manage its hedge fund allocation, which following an investment strategy review by consultant JLT Employee Benefits, has been set at 9 per cent.
This allocation, which includes managed futures, will be managed by Man FRM via its managed account based Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) platform and will replace the Fund’s previous allocations to Liongate, SSARIS, Bluecrest, and Duet. The allocation by the Clwyd Pension Fund follows the announcement in January 2015 that the Cornwall Pension Fund had appointed Man FRM to manage its hedge fund allocation.
Man
- 04/11/2015
Global Prime Partners has appointed Tom Wooders as Head of Sales, Broker-Dealers and Intermediaries.
Wooders, who has over 20 years experience in the financial services industry, will be responsible for growing the Company's international clearing and custody services. Prior to joining Global Prime Partners Wooders held frontline sales roles at JP Morgan, BNY Pershing, State Street and Broadridge.
Global Prime Partners’ clearing and custody services, which complements its prime brokerage offering, has recently extended its product range. Services now include client money and asset segregation which enable the Company to meet the growing needs of asset managers, broker dealers and other clients who are looking for
- 04/11/2015
Hedge fund manager BlueMountain Capital Management has held the final close of the BlueMountain Summit Opportunities Fund II, the firm’s most recent multi-asset class opportunity fund, at USD1.3 billion in committed capital.
Summit Fund II has already begun deploying capital into high conviction investments across multiple asset classes including public corporate credit and equity, mortgage and asset-backed securities, real estate and private debt and equity. Investments focus on positions with excess risk premium associated with lower liquidity and heightened complexity. The Fund’s broad, flexible and long-term investment mandate allows BlueMountain to pursue opportunities across continuously evolving markets in both short-term trading
- 04/11/2015
The Countess of Wessex (pictured) is to serve as Global Ambassador of 100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF) Next Generation initiatives.
Launched in January 2015, the goal of 100WHF’s most recent initiative is to inspire, mentor and provide access and peer network support to young women looking to start their careers in finance and investments.
The Countess of Wessex will attend several events in New York to launch her new role, including the 100WHF 500th education event on 10 November, a Next Gen breakfast discussion on November 11th with young women currently in the industry, and a New York
- 04/11/2015
As Europe’s private debt market continues to evolve, those managers well placed to offer direct lending strategies could benefit substantially as insurance companies, in particular, seek alternative yield-enhancing funds within their credit portfolios. Not only do direct lending strategies provide stable, consistent returns over a multi-year time horizon, they also allow insurers to make more efficient use of their Solvency Capital Ratio (SCR) under Solvency II regulation.
The capital charge is estimated to be 20 per cent. Factor in that these are private closed-ended investments, offering insulation from market volatility, and suddenly one begins to understand why direct lending is
- 04/11/2015
The Quaker Event Arbitrage Fund has joined Provasi Capital Partners’ investment platform. The Fund – a multi-strategy event-driven mutual fund – is focused on long-term growth of capital that invests in securities of issuers that are experiencing corporate events.
"We are very pleased to welcome the Quaker Event Arbitrage Fund to our platform and provide financial advisors with access to an event-driven strategy," says Frank Muller (pictured), CEO and President of Provasi Capital Partners. "By tactically allocating within different sub-strategies, the Fund is able to offer investors enhanced levels of diversification and seeks to mitigate risk."
Event-driven investing focuses
- 03/11/2015
AlphaClone has launched of the AlphaClone International Downside Hedged Index, which is designed to give investors access to the investment ideas of the world’s most established hedge funds, while simultaneously hedging against protracted market downturns.
The index follows the same proprietary Clone Score methodology used by AlphaClone’s flagship AlphaClone Hedge Fund Downside Hedged Index, which has approximately USD170 million in assets currently tracking the index, and has returned an average of 14.35 per cent per year versus 12.40 per cent for the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the three-year period ending 9/30/2015.
Earlier in the year, the firm
- 03/11/2015
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