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The Dutch hedge fund industry may be dwarfed in size by its London and New York peers, but you wouldn’t have realised that from the noise and enthusiasm generated at the recent Alternatives4Children (A4C) spring fund raising party at Amsterdam’s ANDAZ Hotel.
Marc de Kloe, outgoing Head of the Global Alternatives and Funds team for ABN AMRO Private Banking and Co-founder of A4C, said at the event: “The financial industry has not had the best press in recent years, but tonight you’re seeing what can be achieved when people choose to put aside the relentless pursuit of investment returns and contribute
- 11/06/2015
Man AHL has launched a new video series, ‘AHL Explains’ outlining the key concepts in futures trend following, in a simple and accessible way.
The seven short videos are narrated by Man AHL’s Chief Scientist and Academic Liaison, Dr Anthony Ledford, and each seeks to bring essential quantitative investing concepts to life through illustrations and graphics. Dr Ledford is based at the Man Research Laboratory at the University of Oxford and leads Man AHL’s strategic research.
Sandy Rattray, CEO of Man AHL, says: “We have created the AHL Explains video series in an effort to demystify quantitative investing. We
- 11/06/2015
Marshall Bailey (pictured), president of ACI Financial Markets Association, comments on the release of the Fair and Effective Markets Review (FEMR)…
We welcome the recommendations set out in the Fair and Effective Markets Review (FEMR), which sets the foundation for positive change in the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC) markets – particularly at a time when the issue of individual conduct and ethics in FICC markets is very much in the public eye.
From our perspective, the most important takeaway from this is that the FEMR will lead to an increased emphasis on financial education on ethics and
- 11/06/2015
Incapital LLC and Nuveen Investments have expanded their joint-distribution and portfolio consultant unit trust partnership with the addition of new unit trusts and expanded sales resources at both firms.
Since the beginning of 2014, Nuveen and Incapital have partnered together on key aspects of unit trust product development, marketing, distribution and client relationship management. In this partnership, Incapital serves as trust underwriter and sponsor, providing units to the public through broker-dealers and other firms. Nuveen Investments, through its several affiliates, serves as portfolio consultant responsible for developing investment strategies and constructing model portfolios for the unit trusts.
John DesPrez, Incapital's
- 11/06/2015
CRYEX, the new digital currency trading and clearing platform, is partnering with CQG, a trade routing, global market data and advanced technical analysis provider, to offer connectivity to its members and participants from launch.
CRYEX will provide a trusted gateway between the traditional regulated financial industry and digital currencies. The new trading and clearing platform will enable regulated market participants to trade both FX and digital currencies through a single point of entry, providing a wide range of highly demanded products.
“CQG offers CRYEX members and other market participants a tier one order-routing, risk management and data analysis system,”
- 11/06/2015
Trium Capital has launched the Trium Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund, which has been seeded by Trium Capital, and will be run by a team headed by James Jarvis, who joined the firm from PAAMCO’s Portfolio Management team.
The team has been built from the ground up to give investors a diversified portfolio constructed across both liquid discretionary and quantitative strategies. It initially consists of four lowly correlated books run by experienced investment specialists. The discretionary portion includes a fundamental long/short equity strategy and a special situations/opportunistic equity-biased book, whilst on the quantitative side there is a systematic macro and a
- 11/06/2015
Over the last 12 months, the South African hedge fund industry has gone from strength to strength and there is growth in almost all areas. Preqin’s Hedge Fund Analyst online service shows that since June 2014, the number of South Africa-based funds has increased from 104 to 124, while the total assets managed by South Africa-based hedge funds has increased from just over ZAR41bn to around ZAR66bn. In addition to the promising growth statistics, there are other catalysts set to help the South African hedge fund industry on its journey to maturity.
In 2012, South Africa’s National Treasury and the
- 11/06/2015
The CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK) has responded to the Fair and Efficient Markets Review (FEMR” report on behalf of its 11,000 members.
The CFA UK welcomes the acknowledgement that high standards of professionalism need to be applied across wholesale financial markets. The Society is also encouraged that the FEMR team has recognised that a key component of restoring trust is a requirement that market participants are appropriately trained and qualified and maintain their competence through continuous professional development (“CPD”)
A large number of those that work in the investment sector are members of a professional body
- 11/06/2015
- 11/06/2015
Deer Park Road is to launch a new fund – the SBF Opportunities Fund – on 1 July. The new fund will complement Deer Park’s two existing funds, STS Partners Fund and Burgess Creek Fund.
As with Deer Park’s existing funds, SBF Opportunities Fund will focus on mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities, but is expected to invest in a broader range of MBS/ABS securities. It is also expected to differ from Deer Park’s other funds by being more actively traded, and incorporating larger leverage and short components.
“The SBF Opportunities Fund is really a response to the numerous requests
- 11/06/2015
The long-term success of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (SHSC) hinges on removing the many barriers to participation, including features of the program that restrict trading strategies, introduce risk and create operational complexity.
That’s according to a new whitepaper published by Celent which was commissioned by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.
Institutional investors continue to cite issues such as limited support for short selling, using Renminbi (RMB) as the sole settlement currency and the hybrid (T+0/T+1) settlement cycle as obstacles to increased usage of SHSC. This hesitancy is compounded by remaining uncertainty over asset fungibility, shareholder rights and
- 11/06/2015
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