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Unigestion has launched a Private Debt Allocator tool, which identifies private debt opportunities to exactly match clients’ investment objectives.
Through its work with clients, Unigestion has identified a common perception of the universe of private debt opportunities as large, diverse and challenging. Depending on the type of debt, it can yield returns for investors of anything between 5 per cent and 20 per cent. This solution aims to help clients navigate across the myriad of different asset types, investment strategies and differing characteristics.
The Private Debt Allocator simplifies the process by taking a structured approach to evaluating each private debt
- 27/04/2015
Institutional trading network Liquidnet has reported record first quarter performance in EMEA as institutional investors increasingly look to trade in blocks.
The first three months of 2015 was a record quarter for Liquidnet EMEA in local currency. Average Execution Size was USD1.64 million, up 31% year-on-year (YoY). Average Daily Liquidity rose 12% YoY to USD22.7 billion, Average Daily Principal Traded was up 26% compared to the previous quarter – driven by Liquidnet’s focus on expanding liquidity opportunities for more than 780 of the world’s leading asset managers.
Mark Pumfrey, Head of EMEA at Liquidnet, says: “We've made a great
- 27/04/2015
A new global study on alternative channels for capital from shadow banking provides a unique investor perspective on what it will take for these financing vehicles to take hold and support economic growth.
The report makes recommendations for improved transparency and simplification in securities financing, including management of collateral and reforming the securitisation market. The study also includes the results of a CFA Institute member survey which finds that 55 per cent of professional investor respondents globally identified a need for greater standardisation and simplification of issuance structures in securitisation markets.
Shadow Banking: Policy Frameworks and Investor Perspectives
- 27/04/2015
Managing Partners Limited (MPL) has launched a new service to help the thousands of Swiss asset management firms it believes are now struggling to meet – and are already breaching – new rules introduced by regulator FINMA.
FINMA is raising the regulatory bar in Switzerland to mirror the standards set by the AIFMD and MiFID in the European Union and MPL believes this requires a ‘stellar leap’ in compliance capacity for many of the country’s 5,000 independent asset managers (IAMs), which have been subjected to little more than money laundering regulations in the past. MPL estimates that it will require
- 27/04/2015
Eighty per cent of respondents to a survey by Omgeo, a subsidiary of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) believe T+2 will become the global standard for settlement cycles within 10 years.
Currently, settlement cycles vary between T+3 in the US, to T+2 in Europe and differing cycles across Asia, including T+2 in Hong Kong and T+3 in Singapore. 52 per cent expect the US to move to a T+2 settlement cycle within the next three years while 34 per cent and 14 per cent believe Canada and Japan, respectively, will do the same.
Tony Freeman, Omgeo’s Executive
- 27/04/2015
Recent market conditions were less supportive for hedge funds, with a reversal of market moves witnessed so far this year. Last week, European equities were down and the EUR/USD went up, while US rates ended the week marginally higher. The Lyxor hedge fund index was however resilient, down only 39bps. Gains were posted by Asian managers, both on the L/S equity and Even-Driven strategies.
- 27/04/2015
Tim Thornton, Chief Data Officer, Mitsubishi UFJ Fund Services comments on the upcoming deadline for registration on the Cayman FATCA portal…
The upcoming 30 April deadline for registration on the Cayman FATCA portal is another milestone in the implementation of FATCA. The relatively short window from the portal being available, combined with the fact that the portal has been set up to handle both US and UK FATCA, means that it is vital managers are confident in their FATCA process, be it in house or outsourced.
The requirement for notification or authority letters to be prepared and filed where registration
- 27/04/2015
Castle Hall Alternatives has launched OpsMonitor a due diligence platform featuring daily media monitoring, a comprehensive process to identify changes in manager and fund operational risk quarter to quarter.
OpsMonitor also provides interactive dashboards to identify risks present in fund annual financial statements.
“Castle Hall is excited to introduce a range of powerful new monitoring functions to OpsDiligence, our online diligence system,” says Chris Addy, Castle Hall’s CEO. “Due diligence has evolved: rather than wait for traditional, annual diligence meetings, investors increasingly recognise the value of ongoing monitoring to identify and react to potential operational risks in real time. With
- 27/04/2015
Gottex Fund Management Holdings Limited has reported good performance to 10 April year to date from its Multi-Asset products, which are up around 5.3 per cent.
The firm’s two Asian equity funds – the Gottex Penjing Asian Equity strategy added 9.0 per cent and the Gottex Penjing Asia Beta Select strategy – have also performed well generating a return of 12.0 per cent for the same period.
Total fee-earning assets for the group were USD 8.46 billion compared to USD 8.20 billion at 31 December 2014, an increase of 3 per cent over the quarter.
On 1 May,
- 27/04/2015
In this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Real Estate, Q1 2015, we analyse fund performance and take a look at private real estate funds currently in market.
Fund Performance
Closed-end private real estate funds have posted positive changes in NAV for 18 consecutive quarters, with Q3 2014 seeing an average 1.9 per cent increase in NAV (Fig 1). As of September 2014, funds of vintage years 2009-2012 are posting relatively strong returns, with the median IRR ranging from 12.8 per cent for vintage 2012 funds to 15.8 per cent for vintage 2009 funds.
Examining J-curves of funds of
- 24/04/2015
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