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By Jasper Lawler, Market Analyst, CMC Markets – In a week that sees reports from major mining companies including BHP Billiton and Vale, Jasper Lawler looks at the outlook for copper given the recent sharp decline in prices and the action taken by the Chinese central bank.
Copper rebounded from five and a half year lows in February on the back of new stimulus measures in China and a bounce back in oil prices. In the first week of February copper recorded its biggest weekly gain since August but the price has flat-lined since on reduced Chinese demand in the
- 25/02/2015
With yield continuing to be in demand from income-hungry investors and ‘easy’ market gains unlikely, corporate credit is expected to once again take centre stage, according to BNY Mellon’s Fixed Income Special Report.
The annual report draws on the expertise of 23 fund managers and investment strategists across six of BNY Mellon’s boutiques, which form part of the world’s largest multi-boutique asset manager with USD1.7tn in AUM. The report includes an extensive overview of the full credit cycle from investment grade credit to emerging market debt, and asset backed securities to catastrophe bonds.
Insight Investment product specialist Andy Burgess,
- 25/02/2015
BIL Manage Invest (BMI) has selected Linedata Front Office Platform to manage the firm’s complete front-to-back asset management workflow across their full suite of investment funds.
With an increased emphasis on risk management in the industry, AIFM Directive and UCITS regulation continue to impose controls and transparency with the end goal of protecting the financial world against systemic risk. While many management companies seek comprehensive risk management around all aspects of their front-to-back activities, they also look to increase efficiencies, and provide added-value to their clients while keeping costs at an acceptable level. This is particularly true with funds under
- 25/02/2015
Volante Technologies has appointed Nadish Lad as Head of Payments Product and Peter McKenna as Global Marketing Director.
Volante has also hired additional development and testing staff and opened two new offices in Jersey City and Hyderabad to accommodate team expansions
Volante provides software solutions dedicated to helping clients integrate, validate and process financial data and messages with greater efficiency and ease while staying abreast of changes in message standards and protocols on both a domestic and international level.
Nadish Lad, Head of Payments Product, reporting to Venkat Malla, Volante’s Head of Product Management, joins from Ernst & Young
- 25/02/2015
Lanware, the rapidly growing cloud based outsourced technology service provider for investment management firms and financial institutions, has been awarded Cyber Essentials certification by CREST, the UK government approved accreditation body under the Cyber Essentials scheme.
The Cyber Essentials classification is a government-backed, industry supported scheme to help organisations protect themselves against common cyber-attacks. Lanware is amongst the foremost cyber security firms to receive this new accreditation.
Cyber Essentials defines a set of controls which, when properly implemented, will provide organisations with protection from the most prevalent forms of Cyber threats. In particular, it focuses on threats which require
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- 25/02/2015
2015 will not be any easier for fund managers from an operational perspective. The raft of regulatory reporting under Annex IV and EMIR is set to increase, depending on the size of the manager, and the barriers to entry look set to remain high for new managers; both from a compliance perspective and investor expectations on operational infrastructure.
After a lukewarm performance in 2014, where the average hedge fund returned less than 4 per cent, and large institutional investors such as CalPERS and Dutch health care sector pension fund PFZW divested their holdings, 2015 is, in many ways, a year
- 25/02/2015
Quantitative analytics firm Trade Informatics has launched TI Fact, a routing analysis technology that eliminates the agency information advantage, thereby levelling the field for buy-side institutions and asset managers.
TI Fact provides millisecond analysis, assisting clients in spotting and reacting to predatory market practices.
TI Fact is Trade Informatics’ latest development in a proprietary suite of analytics designed to deliver actionable results. Trade Informatics has saved clients billions of dollars in transaction costs. Via Trade Informatics’ revolutionary framework, asset managers can hyper-measure, evaluate and analyze their trading history to identify deficiencies and take corrective action, driving implementation shortfall lower.
“TI
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Strong performance in Jersey’s funds sector in 2014 has seen the value of fund assets administered in the jurisdiction increase by almost one fifth year-on-year to reach the highest level in seven years.
The latest figures for Jersey’s finance industry, collated by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) for the period ending December 2014, show that the net asset value (NAV) of funds under administration in Jersey grew by GBP23.5bn over the final quarter of last year to now stand at GBP228.9bn, representing an increase of 19% compared to December 2013 and the highest level since December 2008. In addition,
- 25/02/2015
Activist hedge funds globally are driving improvements in the share price, operating performance and governance of the companies in which they invest, according to a new paper by AIMA.
The findings are contained in a paper, titled “Unlocking Value: The Positive Role of Activist Hedge Funds”, which AIMA has produced in conjunction with the law firm Simmons & Simmons.
The report finds that:
• Activist engagement by hedge funds is positively correlated to improvements in the share price and operating performance of targeted companies.
• Activist hedge funds seek higher standards of corporate governance from the companies in which
- 25/02/2015
The Board of Directors of ALTIN AG has set the strike price of the put options to be issued as part of its share buyback programme at USD64.
The strike price is set at a 13.6% premium above the closing share price on SIX Swiss Exchange on 23 February 2015.
Each share will receive 1 put option and 10 put options will entitle the holder to sell 1 ALTIN share at the exercise price (strike price) of USD 64 to ALTIN.
The ex-date for the put options is 27 February 2015, the date when the put options will
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