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The mutual fund that helped launch the liquid alternatives product category, IndexIQ’s IQ Alpha Hedge Strategy Fund, is celebrating its sixth anniversary. The fund was the first no-load, open-end hedge fund replication mutual fund.   “The launch of the IQ Alpha Hedge Strategy Fund was a key moment for us in the development and evolution of our firm, as well as for what was then the nascent ‘liquid alternatives’ product category,” says Adam Patti, chief executive officer at IndexIQ. “In the ensuing six years, financial advisors, retail investors, and institutions have all come to embrace liquid alternatives, and the diversification,
BNY Mellon Investment Management has launched the BNY Mellon Absolute Insight Fund, an Irish domiciled UCITS absolute return fund with daily liquidity.  The fund is managed by Insight Investment.   Working in partnership, BNY Mellon and Insight have developed a global multi-strategy UCITS fund that invests across a range of absolute return strategies based on the Absolute Insight range and managed by Insight’s specialist equity, fixed income and multi-asset teams.  Each of the underlying strategies is actively managed on an absolute return basis targeting a positive return with very low correlation to equity markets.   The BNY Mellon Absolute Insight
Sancus Capital, a hedge fund that specialises in diversified credit products, has hired Shelly Baldwin as business development and investor relations manager. Baldwin is reuniting with her ex-Goldman Sachs colleagues at Sancus where her primary focus will be new business development.   Baldwin was most recently at Varadero Capital where she was focused on investor relations. She also held a marketing role at AXA and spent eight years as a quantitative analyst at Goldman Sachs.   “We are pleased to have someone with Shelly’s background joining Sancus. Shelly’s depth of experience in investor relations and business development is exceptional,” says
Thomson Reuters and ICAP Information Services (IIS) have renewed a distribution agreement which adds new electronic data sources to the 19901 service – a reference source for USD interest rate swaps and US Treasuries. The 19901 service now provides Thomson Reuters clients with exclusive access to a leading swap data service using the following ICAP data sources: i-Swap, the electronic platform powering ICAP’s swap execution facility (SEF); the voice brokered “request for quote” swap market; and executable prices for US Treasury securities from fixed income electronic trading platform BrokerTec.    Market participants using Thomson Reuters Eikon, the company’s flagship financial
KNEIP, a service provider for the fund industry, has partnered with AssetLogic to launch the Fund Information Network. Fund data management is ultimately the responsibility of the asset manager. For over 20 years, KNEIP has helped asset managers and administrators manage their fund data and documents to regulators, distribution networks, data vendors, platforms, and investors. But getting accurate data upstream within the asset manager’s ecosystem remains a challenge.   The Fund Information Network is an infrastructure that allows firms to share their fund data without replication. Instead of relying on emailing spreadsheets, which can result in errors and security breaches,
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has submitted for publication in the Federal Register a 30-day extension of the comment period for two rulemakings. The rulemakings are:   A proposal to establish speculative position limits for 28 exempt and agricultural commodity futures and options contracts and the physical commodity swaps that are economically equivalent to such contracts; and   A proposal to amend existing regulations setting out the Commission’s policy for aggregation under its position limits regime.   The position limits proposal was originally published in the Federal Register on 2 December 2013, and the aggregation proposal was originally
With less than one month to go until the transitional phase of the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) comes to an end, Jersey is seeing a strong take-up in its private placement route into Europe. Figures from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) show that more than 70 per cent of the 52 funds registered so far this year in Jersey have been approved to market into the EU under the AIFMD through Jersey’s private placement regime.   In addition, according to the JFSC, a total of 43 funds have so far been registered to market into the
If the first quarter of 2014 was anything to go by, gold could prove an interesting investment opportunity this year. We’ve already seen values recover from the sell-off of 2013 to register strong gains since the start of the year. However, the somewhat calmer West versus Russia rhetoric and perceived stability in Ukraine following May's decisive election result, along with hints from the Fed that higher interest rates may come sooner than expected, saw gold give back some of its gains again. We came into the year trading at USD1,205, hit a peak of USD1,391 (+15.4% on the year) and it
Fiona Le Poidevin of Guernsey Finance explains how Guernsey remains the ‘go-to’ jurisdiction for domiciling private equity funds. As a jurisdiction, Guernsey has become synonymous with private equity.   There are in the region of 850 Guernsey domiciled investment funds which are used for cross-border distribution to all corners of the globe and there is recognition that there is a wealth of expertise and infrastructure in the Island for the structuring, management and administration of private equity funds.   Apax, BC Partners, Mid-Europa, Permira and Terra Firma amongst others have established operations in Guernsey which is a testament to the
Omgeo ProtoColl, Omgeo’s automated collateral and margin management solution, is offering a standard interface to The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) Global Trade Repository (GTR).  ProtoColl clients can leverage the new interface to meet the upcoming European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) requirement for collateral reporting.   EMIR entered into force on 15 March 2013 and introduced a range of changes to the derivatives market including central clearing mandates, increased margin and collateral requirements for OTC derivatives transactions as well as trade reporting of over the counter and exchange traded derivatives. Trade reporting requirements became mandatory on 12 February 2014

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