TFG Financial Systems, a provider of real time risk monitoring solutions to investment managers, secured five new mandates in the third quarter from a Tier 1 bank, a mini-prime broker and three hedge funds globally. TFG believes the demand for
Nuveen has teamed with Artivest, a technology-driven alternatives investment platform, to bring alternative investments capabilities to RIAs, family offices, private banks and other financial advisers serving qualified high-net-worth investors. Advisers will now be able to use investment tools, education materials
Barclays Prime Services Strategic Consulting has just completed its latest report entitled ‘Against All Odds – Hedge Fund Industry Developments and Implications for Growth’. The report finds that although hedge funds have produced considerable excess returns since 1993, such levels
Man Group, the largest listed hedge fund group in the world, has published interim results to end June 2016 that show that funds under management are down from the end December figure of USD78.7 billion to USD76.4 billion. Net inflows
Navatar, the growth platform for alternative assets firms, has launched a new investment platform built specifically to help limited partners evaluate investment opportunities and manage their investments across funds. Navatar Limited Partner Cloud is designed for large institutional investors, endowments, family offices, fund
Traiana, a provider of pre-trade risk and post-trade processing solutions, has seen a threefold growth in allocation volumes via its Harmony Equity Swaps service. The platform achieved growth of 185 per cent between May 2015 and May 2016, following strong
A recent survey by Preqin revealed that 60 per cent of hedge funds have less than USD100 million in AUM and that only five per cent of hedge fund flows go to funds operating below that AUM level. There are
Prestige Capital Management has launched its Commercial Finance Opportunities Fund on the Sweden-based Mutual Funds Exchange (MFEX) platform and has launched a dedicated Swedish Krona (SEK) hedged share class. The fund aims to achieve consistent absolute returns in most market
Distribution is a critical consideration for those wishing to market their hedge funds into Europe. But regardless of whether that fund is UCITS-compliant or an AIF, the continuous evolution of European regulation means that managers have to stay one step
Pershing has added the hedge fund intelligence platform, AltX, to its Alternative Investment Center, which is accessible through NetX360 and provides advisors access to educational resources, research and tools to help inform their alternative investment strategies. The addition of AltX
