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Long-known for secrecy and operating in the shadows of investment and finance, hedge funds will become increasingly transparent and more active on social media in 2015, according to Peppercomm. “Secrecy is no longer going to work for many hedge funds,” says Thomas Walek, a pioneer in hedge fund communications strategies and head of Capital Markets and Financial Services at Peppercomm. Peppercomm’s award-winning team represents many leading hedge funds, emerging leaders and service providers in the $3 trillion global hedge fund industry. “Intense competition for investors, traditional asset management firms moving into alternatives, and hedge funds launching mainstream liquid alternative products
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has added the S&P Quality Nordic Index to its rapidly expanding global lineup of factor-based indices.  The new index, which is designed to provide a basis for exposure to high quality stocks in the Nordic market, offers a multi-factor approach to weighting and measuring some of the most followed stocks in the Nordics. The S&P Quality Nordic Index is comprised of the top 30 stocks from the S&P Nordic LargeMidCap Index. Each stock is selected using a “high quality score” that is based on three fundamental measures: return on equity, accruals ratio and financial
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission) has issued an Order of Registration to the Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM), a Foreign Board of Trade located in Tokyo, Japan.   Under the Order, TOCOM is permitted to provide its identified members or other participants located in the US with direct access to its electronic order entry and trade matching system to trade futures contracts on metals, fuels, rubber and agricultural commodities and futures and option contracts on gold. The Commission issued the Order in accordance with Part 48 of the Commission’s regulations, which provides that such an Order may be issued
The Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge gained 7.71% in 2014. The Barclay BTOP50 Index, which measures performance of the largest CTAs, was up 12.31% in 2014. “The BTOP50 had a strong finish, ending the year with five consecutive profitable months and putting in its best performance since the financial meltdown in 2008 when it gained 13.58 percent,” says Sol Waksman, founder and president of BarclayHedge. “Large trend-followers led the way with a gain of 19.59 percent in 2014.” All eight of Barclay’s CTA indices registered gains in 2014. The Diversified Traders Index was up 10.79%, Systematic Traders gained 10.26%,
The Board of Directors of ALTIN AG is to implement a further share buyback for the purpose of a capital reduction through the issuance of tradable put options.  The put options will be assigned for free to all shareholders with a strike price set at an attractive premium to the market price.   ALTIN's Board of Directors reaffirms its strong commitment to better align the share price of the company with its NAV and hence to reduce the discount in the best interest of all shareholders. As stated in January 2014, the key element for investors is simply the share
Investors, consultants and hedge fund managers are now able to conduct sophisticated risk analysis, construct and optimise portfolios and generate reports on hedge funds' performance and risk via a native iOS Risk-AI Fusion app. Risk-AI Fusion is the first ever, practical software for risk analysis of hedge funds for iPad. The application provides users with a rich set of tools previously available only on desktop or web-based platforms. "This version of Fusion App brings Portfolio Analysis and Construction features to iPad, making Fusion the first fully functional risk management App on iPad. Investors can now analyze their current portfolios and
Scipion Capital (Scipion), the international commodity trade finance investment manager has appointed a new high level Advisory Council, chaired by the Right Honourable Sir Desmond de Silva. The council will support the company with its business strategies and push into the international institutional investment market. The Advisory Council also welcomes the specialist private equity investor Michael Naylor and Eoin Brophy, co-founder of international communications firm Hume Brophy. The role of the new Council will be to provide advice and to make recommendations to the company in relation to its business activities and strategic priorities. The Council will meet with Scipion’s
Preqin has been busy preparing its end-of-year investor and fund manager reports across all major alternative asset classes: hedge funds, private equity, private real estate and infrastructure. The following article summarises the key findings from these reports at a broad strokes level.  Hedge Funds 2014 proved a challenging year for hedge funds. Performance-wise it was the worst year since 2011, with the average hedge fund failing to hit 4%. Unsurprisingly, performance (33%) and fees (21%) are cited as the top two challenges for the industry by institutional investors for 2015. According to Preqin, this could work to the advantage of
Preqin has launched its 2015 Global Alternatives Reports, revealing significant growth in assets held by private equity, hedge fund, private debt, real estate and infrastructure fund managers. Total industry assets now stand at USD6.91tn*, up from USD6.22tn as of this point last year. A challenging performance environment resulted in the hedge fund benchmark failing to make gains of more than 4%. However, despite this, the asset class accounted for over half of the asset growth across alternatives, as investors continued to deploy capital in funds that offered attractive opportunities. The 2015 Global Hedge Fund Report provides a comprehensive review of
Investors increased allocations to hedge funds in Q4 2014 as financial market volatility soared into year-end led by a steep decline in oil, Euro currency weakness and sharp drops in both the Russian Rouble and equity markets.  Investors allocated USD3.6 billion of new capital to hedge funds globally in the quarter, bringing the full year of inflows to USD76.4 billion, the highest calendar year of inflows since 2007, as reported today in latest edition of the HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report, released today by HFR®, the established global leader in the indexation, research and analysis of the global hedge

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