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Institutional manager DDJ Capital Management is anticipating a volatile market in 2015 offering bond pickers numerous and compelling buying opportunities.
The firm’s 2015 outlook says certain high yielding corporate debt instruments can offer an attractive return stream not only this year but for several years to come.
Following a torrid pace in the first half of 2014, reaching a peak return of 5.73% on June 24, the US leveraged credit market turned choppy and then headed south, says David Breazzano, DDJ’s president and chief investment officer, in the firm’s review of the past year and outlook for 2015.
In DDJ’s
- 05/02/2015
CFA Institute, the global association of investment professionals is opening of new offices in China and India.
The establishment of a presence in these two markets demonstrates strong support for the region's growing number of members and candidates and allows for renewed focus on advocacy efforts to actively shape public policy that strengthens investor confidence and market integrity.
"This important milestone in the history of CFA Institute underscores our commitment to the Asia Pacific region and to the global investment profession," says Paul Smith, CFA, president and CEO of CFA Institute. "The new offices in Beijing and Mumbai demonstrate the
- 05/02/2015
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is extending the deadline for public comment on related applications submitted by LedgerX for registration as a derivatives clearing organisation and registration as a swap execution facility.
The original comment period ended on 30 January, 2015, but due to commenters requesting additional time, the CFTC is extending the deadline to Feb. 20, 2015. LedgerX plans to list and clear fully collateralised, physically settled options on bitcoins.
Comments may be submitted electronically through the CFTC’s Comments Online process. All comments received will be posted on the CFTC website.
- 05/02/2015
Liquid Holdings has launched LiquidMobile, a web-based app that allows hedge funds to manage portfolio and risk analysis and reporting across multiple funds on a mobile device in real-time.
LiquidMobile is engineered for fluidity from the desktop to any mobile device, giving fund managers the ability to easily interact with historical, real-time, and forward-looking P&L, performance, market and liquidity risk, and NAV-light calculations. With mobile-optimised dashboards to monitor investments and investor relationships on the go, LiquidMobileSM represents a major step forward for the hedge fund industry, which today faces rising pressures across transparency, regulations and operating costs.
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- 05/02/2015
Dallas-based alternative investment management firm Highland Capital Management Fund Advisors, has appointed First Foundation Advisors as the exclusive sub-advisor for the Highland Total Return Fund.
First Foundation Advisors was selected by the Board of Trustees for Highland Funds.
“We are pleased to expand our relationship with First Foundation Advisors,” says Ethan Powell, Highland’s Chief Product Strategist. “First Foundation has a strong track record and an investment process that aligns with the objectives of the Highland Total Return Fund.”
First Foundation Advisors also serves as the exclusive sub-advisor for the Highland Fixed Income Fund and the Highland Tax Exempt Fund.
In
- 05/02/2015
January was a volatile month across asset classes, proving challenging for many hedge fund investors although most global macro investors were rewarded, with the HFRX Macro/CTA index up 2.0%.
Important asset class moves reflected expectations of slowing global growth, including strong rallies in US, UK and European bonds, oil down over 7%, and equities negative. The MSCI World index fell by 1.8% while the US S&P 500 index lost 3.0% in US dollar terms. Europe proved a notable exception with European equities strongly positive in local currency terms.
The key issues for investors in January largely centred around quantitative
- 05/02/2015
The January 2015 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR8,630 million (+31% compared to January 2014).
In January 2015, the average daily volumes on equity index derivatives were significantly up at 298,375 contracts (+12% compared with January 2014), while the average daily volume on individual equity derivatives was down at 240,899 contracts (-19% compared with January 2014).
The activity on commodity derivatives remained strong in January with an average daily volume at 53,653 contracts traded, up 7% when compared to January 2014.
Euronext had two new listings in January. EUR7,562 million of follow-on equity
- 05/02/2015
Over 70% of real estate firms surveyed by Preqin at the end of 2014 felt competition for both investment opportunities and sources of capital had increased over the past year. Preqin’s Head of Real Assets Products, Andrew Moylan, assesses the increasingly competitive landscape facing private real estate fund managers:
There are many challenges currently facing both fund managers and investors active in the private real estate space. The improving fortunes of the private real estate industry in recent years – the industry now manages an all-time high of USD742bn in assets and generated annualised returns of 16.7% over the last
- 04/02/2015
Ogier has appointed David Cooney and Bradley Kruger as Partners in the Cayman office and Michael Killourhy (pictured) as a Partner in the BVI office.
In addition, Partner Simon Schilder has joined the Jersey Funds team and five Senior Associates have been promoted to Managing Associate across the BVI, Cayman, Guernsey and Luxembourg offices.
David Cooney has been with Ogier since 2012 having moved from the UK, where he was previously a Partner at Gorvins. His practice focuses primarily on Private Clients and he also manages a number of key funds related clients and transactions.
David received his Bachelor of
- 04/02/2015
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