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eClerx has launched a Know Your Customer (KYC) solution, which is offered in a three tier system, enabling banks to have access to the best offering based on the immediate and strategic requirements. The KYC platform enables both sell side and buy side clients to quickly establish and effectively conduct KYC processes and satisfy these rules through a highly controlled and supervised operations platform, reducing regulatory risk and ensuring compliance across multiple jurisdictions.   The eClerx KYC solution addresses key compliance requirements of the major regulatory bodies, both US and international, including the Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller
TOP 10 OPERATIONAL RISKS: A Survival Guide for Investment Management Firms By Holly H Miller, Managing Director of Middle Office Services, SEI’s Investment Manager Services division TAKEAWAYS Virtually every investment management firm has the opportunity to take risk management to higher level, taking a fresh look at common areas of risk, identifying priorities for action, and then considering the variety of relatively straightforward risk-management measures that can be deployed Different organizations have different exposures and tolerance levels to operational risk, depending, for instance, upon their investment strategies, the markets in which they operate and the instruments they employ; thus there is
This week London based ETP provider Source announced that it had partnered with Ashmore to launch the manager’s first funds in Europe. Ashmore is a specialist active investment manager with more than 20 years’ experience in emerging markets. “Source focuses on identifying investors’ needs and then searching for ‘best in class’ solutions to meet those needs,” explained Michael John Lytle, Chief Development Officer at Source. ”Investors wanting to diversify and pick up additional yield are looking beyond developed markets. Ashmore is one of the very few managers solely dedicated to Emerging Markets and with a very long and successful track
September saw the Newedge managed futures indices continue their positive momentum seen in August, with positive returns posted across the board for the second month in a row. The strong post-summer period for CTAs means that the Newedge indices remain firmly in the black for 2014 YTD.   Trend-following strategies continue to drive this positive performance, with strong gains yet again in September. The Newedge Trend Index returned +3.33 per cent for the month, building on a +5.40 per cent return in August, while the Newedge Trend Indicator posted its highest monthly gain since the index began in January 2000.
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was down 0.7 per cent in September, with just five out of the 12 Lyxor indices ending the month of September in positive territory. The index is up 1.0 per cent year-to-date.   The Lyxor CTA Long Term Index led the way with a return of 2.4 per cent, followed by the Lyxor Long Short Equity Market Neutral Index (+2.2 per cent) and the Lyxor Fixed Income Arbitrage Index (+2.2 per cent).   All eyes focused on the ECB meeting before turning to the Fed’s by mid-month. The growing economic and monetary policy divergence between
Start-up alternative investment management firm BlueHive Capital has selected Northern Trust to provide specialist hedge fund administration services and middle office outsourcing for its newly launched fund. As part of the broad mandate, Northern Trust will also provide depositary services.   “We selected Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services for its industry-leading technology and commitment to transparency,” says Sebastien Boucher, chief investment officer and founder of BlueHive Capital. “Whether it’s providing more transparency to investors or complying with regulatory requirements, the demand for data is growing and Northern Trust’s innovative technology solutions help us to meet those demands.”   Based in
The US CFTC has issued a time-limited no-action letter stating that it will not take enforcement action against Singapore Exchange Derivatives Clearing Limited (SGX-DC) for failure to comply with the applicable swap data reporting requirements of Commission Regulations 45.3 and 45.4. The relief is time-limited and expires on the earlier of such time as SGX-DC is able to comply with the applicable swap data reporting requirements of Commission Regulations 45.3 and 45.4; or 30 April 2015.   The relief is also conditioned upon SGX-DC reporting “backloaded” data for swaps cleared during the pendency of the period of relief to a
Anavon Capital has launched the Anavon Global Equity Long/Short UCITS fund on the Alpha UCITS Platform. The fund will be run pari passu with Anavon’s global long/short strategy.   Tages Capital has acted as day one investor ensuring the UCITS fund has critical scale at launch.   Anavon Capital is a London-based hedge fund manager with a successful track record since January 2011 in managing its global equity long/short strategy. The firm was co-founded in 2010 by Avraham Mevorah and Avi Fruchter.   Prior to co-founding Anavon, Mevorah was a partner at Fortelus Capital and Fruchter was a partner at
Over half of the respondents in Preqin’s latest bi-annual survey allocate, or plan to allocate, to liquid alternative funds, further reaffirming that this asset class is here to stay. As reported in Preqin’s latest Hedge Fund Spotlight report, 35 per cent of the more than 100 investors surveyed by Preqin in June said that they currently invest in liquid alternatives; either alternative UCITS (Europe) or alternative mutual funds (US). A further 16 per cent said that they planned to in the future. Separately, Preqin also surveyed more than 150 hedge fund managers to get their views on this growing space.
Global financial markets ended the 3rd quarter with declines as the US Dollar surged in the month of September, driven by a combination of weak European economic data, social unrest in Hong Kong and increased geopolitical tension in the Middle East. Despite the highly successful IPO of Chinese technology company Alibaba, global equity markets posted declines across most regions; with US declines led by small cap, Energy and Commodity sensitive sectors.   European, Asian and Emerging Markets equities posted mixed performance with declines in the UK, Russia, Brazil and Turkey partially offset by gains in China, Argentina, Italy, Japan and

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