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Balter Liquid Alternatives, a subsidiary of Balter Capital Management, has launched the Balter Discretionary Global Macro Fund, which is sub-advised by Willowbridge Associates Inc.
The co-Portfolio Managers, Phil Yang and Frank Marrapodi, utilise Willowbridge's wPraxis Trading Approach (1X Leverage) strategy and the fund's objective is to seek to generate positive absolute returns in most market conditions, irrespective of the performance of broad market indices. As a result, the performance of the fund may not be correlated with the performance of broad equity or fixed income markets.
The Balter Discretionary Global Macro Fund follows the Balter Liquid Alternatives' initial '40
- 05/06/2015
May proved a choppy month across asset classes with investor attention focused on issues such as US growth concerns and the Greek solvency question.
The US Dollar index was up 2.4 per cent, US Treasuries and German Bunds were down, equities were positive in the US and Japan, while Europe and the emerging markets were mixed with the latter suffering the negative impact from the strong US dollar.
Against a choppy market backdrop, hedge funds were broadly positive in May as reflected by the HFRX Global Hedge Fund index up 0.3 per cent. At the strategy level, three of
- 05/06/2015
Lyxor Asset Management has partnered with Corsair Capital Management to launch the Lyxor/Corsair Capital Fund a new UCITS-compliant US long/short equity strategy, and the first fund with daily liquidity within Lyxor’s Alternative UCITS offering.
The fund seeks to capture the performance of US equities with less risk, by preserving capital in down markets and using no leverage. It invests with a long bias focused primarily on US mid-capitalisation companies going through strategic and/or structural change, as those companies often have little analyst coverage and a complicated financial story. It is this information gap between market consensus and Corsair’s proprietary research
- 04/06/2015
Orchard Global Asset Management has appointed Adrian Chopin as a portfolio advisor with responsibility for building a new business line in law firm and litigation funding, while also assisting the development of OGAM's existing structured credit platforms.
Adri Chopin an joins as a member of Orchard's senior portfolio management team, reporting to Gary Wee, Chairman and CIO.
Chopin will join OGAM this summer from Deutsche Bank where he has worked for eight years, most recently as the head of the firm's seven-man North American Debt & Equity Solutions Group. Chopin has a strong track record of designing and closing highly
- 04/06/2015
Marco Polo New World has launched MPFX, a new platform providing access to FX liquidity from both bank and non-bank sources.
The MPFX broker-neutral solution provides clients with the tightest spreads from multiple liquidity providers, and was developed in response to the demands of foreign local brokers and institutions. This matching engine and user interface allows clients to trade directly via a screen or to consume an FX data feed to get access to the highest quality liquidity and tightest spreads available in the market. By providing direct access to the markets, Marco Polo ensures it is a neutral facilitator
- 04/06/2015
Alan Cauberghs, Senior Investment Director, Fixed Income, comments on the implications of the current situation in Greece for investors…
The spectre of a Greek default continues to concern investors, but how much would a Greek default really disrupt markets?
Greece’s Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras, is facing an unwinnable game. Having ordered a EUR750 million loan payment to the IMF in May, just hours ahead of crunch talks with Greece’s creditors, the country remains far from out of the woods. The next IMF deadline is this Friday (5th June), when a EUR300 million loan repayment is due. In May, some members of Mr Tsipras’ governing Syriza party had
- 04/06/2015
Execution broker and research provider ITG has launched a new hedge fund platform for Asia Pacific providing integrated execution, order and position management tools designed to improve operational efficiency and costs for hedge funds.
To support the offering, ITG has hired two experienced hedge fund platform specialists. Phil Chevalier joins ITG in Hong Kong. He previously worked at Advent Software and Eze Software, specializing in portfolio management and order management systems (OMS). Gaye Anable joins ITG’s Sydney office from Bloomberg, where she led the Australian OMS team. Both report into Simon Wade, ITG’s Asia Pacific Head of Sales.
Michael Corcoran,
- 04/06/2015
In this extract from the 2015 Preqin Investor Network Global Alternatives Report, we draw upon the latest data and investor interviews to explore the importance of alternative assets in an investor’s portfolio.
Private Equity
The limited partner universe has expanded and diversified in line with the growth of the private equity asset class. More investors are attracted to the asset class as a result of its consistent outperformance of public markets and the diversification it brings to investment portfolios. Examining average investor allocations to private equity over time by investor type provides insight into how different groups perceive the
- 04/06/2015
Gravitas is strengthening its executive team by appointing Dante DeWitt as Managing Director, Global Technology, and Andrew Dinsmore as Chief Financial Officer.
Gravitas is a leading collaborative outsourcing partner for the alternative investment space that helps hedge funds smartly scale their businesses through its people+process+technology offering. Gravitas experts provide front to middle office workflow support on a fully serviced and configurable investment platform.
“As Gravitas enhances its solutions powered by our proprietary front and middle office platform, we are delighted to add world-class leadership to our executive team,” says Jayesh Punater, Founder & CEO.
DeWitt, who has over
- 04/06/2015
Interactive Brokers Group has launched the Investors’ Marketplace, a new online platform where traders and investors, financial advisors, fund managers, research analysts, technology providers, business developers and administrators can meet and do business together.
The Investors’ Marketplace allows participants to search for a wide variety of investment and other third-party service providers, and advertise their services to individual and institutional investors around the world. To advertise their services, advisors, money managers, hedge funds and brokers must have an account at IB. Other third-party service providers, such as compliance, legal and administrative firms, can list without an IB trading account.
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- 04/06/2015
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