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Considering that the money management industry remains a man's world, one might expect that men are superior investors. "Not so," says finance expert Meredith Jones.  "The research is clear: women investors think about investing differently than men. Collectively, their approach outperforms the industry at large," Jones explains. In her new book, Women of the Street: Why Female Money Managers Generate Higher Returns (and How You Can Too) (Palgrave MacMillan; April 2015), Jones shares the research that validates women's strength as money managers, and profiles eleven top female hedge fund, venture capital, private equity, long-only, fund of funds, and real estate
OYSTER Absolute Return EUR EUR2, a sub-fund of the OYSTER SICAV registered in the Netherlands, has been ranked best fund in the Netherlands over three years by Lipper in the “Absolute Return EUR Low” category.  The OYSTER SICAV is a Luxembourg domiciled UCITS managed by SYZ Asset Management (Luxembourg) SA. The European Corporate Bonds and Dynamic Allocation funds managed by SYZ Asset Management have also received several awards in Europe in the past years.   In today’s record-low interest rates environment, OYSTER Absolute Return EUR provides investors with a compelling alternative to their bond allocation and offers a low-risk building
Buy-side firms are under a global microscope to ensure they act in the best interests of their clients, according to TABB Group in the first of a three-part 11th annual benchmark study series. “US Institutional Equity Trading 2015: A Vision Forward,” covers buy-side firms’ top initiatives, execution channel allocation and commissions, including wallet, rates, CSAs, broker vote and unbundling.   A whirlwind of scrutiny by regulators and media has tipped the scales in favour of long-awaited technology platform implementations to facilitate large tasks of data collection, analysis and surveillance. Where US scrutiny is focused on sell-side routing practices and trading
Tortoise Capital Advisors has added four seasoned portfolio managers to its investment committee, effective 30 June, 2015. Brian Kessens, James Mick, Matthew Sallee and Robert Thummel, all managing directors of Tortoise, serve in significant roles alongside the Investment Committee as part of Tortoise’s portfolio management team, and this will formalise their roles. They will join current Investment Committee members Kevin Birzer, Zach Hamel, Terry Matlack and Ken Malvey. The Investment Committee will continue to provide investment strategy oversight to the portfolio team, who implements the strategy. Also effective 30 June, 2015, one of Tortoise’s five founding managing directors, Dave Schulte,
By James Williams – Global law firms need to work closely with hedge funds to improve their cybersecurity risk management by identifying at-risk assets and coming up with a legal risk mitigation response.  Cybersecurity threats and data protection have become a top-line issue among managers. Whilst the latter is more of an internal threat, due to staff negligence or devious intent (i.e. taking sensitive fund investor information before leaving the firm), protecting a fund’s assets is vital.  One industry specialist I was speaking to last week informed me that one of their larger hedge fund clients had suffered 30,000 intrusion attempts
Cordium has been ranked at number 42 in the inaugural Sunday Times BT Business SME Export Track 100.  The ranking is of Britain's private small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) with the fastest growing international sales over the past two years. Cordium is one of the 28 companies ranked that are headquartered in London. Cordium’s international sales have grown by 63 per cent a year over the last two years and we now employ a total of 200 people.  Danny Longbottom, Managing Director UK SME at BT Business, says: “I would like to congratulate the businesses recognised in the inaugural Export
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched a new capability within its Wealth Management Services (WMS) business to streamline the processing of internal account transfers for alternative investments. With DTCC’s Alternative Investment Products (AIP) service, market participants can now fully automate account transfers for non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) and business development corporations (BDCs). This allows broker/dealers to systematically manage the complex activities required to re-register accounts and internally transfer investors’ shares between closing and opening accounts, as needed. Currently, account transfer transactions are largely manual operational processes – incurring paper trails, multiple registrations and numerous inter-departmental
The 2014 release of the SECs OCIE Cybersecurity Initiative, and recent updates in 2015, means that Alternative Investments firms can’t delay updating their security technology infrastructure. Furthermore, the topic of cyber-attacks has captured media attention as cloud environments introduce another avenue of attack over firms’ confidential data. How can fund managers continue to automate their practices while ensuring their valuable data is protected? Click here to download the full whitepaper The 2014 release of the SECs OCIE Cybersecurity Initiative, and recent updates in 2015, means that Alternative Investments firms can’t delay updating their security technology infrastructure. Furthermore, the topic of cyber-attacks has
The health care sector has driven the lion's share of buying among the largest pure play hedge fund managers in Q1 2015, with net buys of USD4.8 billion in the quarter, according to the latest S&P Capital IQ Hedge Fund Tracker, a review of 13F fillings by hedge funds. The largest single stock purchase and the largest sell was Valeant, with USD3.7 billion in overall buys and USD1.4 billion in sells in the first quarter. This was the first time in eight quarters of running the research that a single company was simultaneously the top buy and top sell among
CME Group has launched eight new European Power futures contracts on CME Europe covering the German, French, Spanish and Italian markets. They are all base load and peak load contracts and cash settled against the leading power auctions for each market.  This is a significant expansion of the CME Europe utility slate of contracts and further enhances the choice of contracts available to participants across the whole energy market spectrum. The contracts will be listed on CME Group's European exchange, CME Europe, for first trade date on Monday 15 June 2015 and are authorised and approved by the United Kingdom

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