The Alternative Investment Management Association has launched a new initiative aimed at improving transparency around diversity and inclusion within the global hedge fund and alternative investment industry. Hedge fund industry trade group AIMA, in partnership with investment consultancy Albourne Partners,
With 60 working days before the MiFID II implementation deadline, RSRCHXchange, the research aggregator and marketplace, has launched its latest version of RSRCHX including mobile and desktop apps and a range of new research management functionality. In addition, the RSRCHX
By Jeremy Lang, partner and co-founder of Ardevora Asset Management – Humans are notoriously poor at forming subjective probabilities – the mind prefers dealing with absolutes: ‘yes’ or ‘no’. We are also very susceptible to anchoring when forming our views. The
The size of the global private credit market is on course to break the USD1 trillion mark by 2020, according to research by the Alternative Credit Council (ACC), the private credit affiliate of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA). Dechert,
Financial regulators across the globe are cracking down heavily on cases of individual misconduct, according to the 5th annual Global Enforcement Review published by the Compliance and Regulatory Consulting Practice of Duff & Phelps. Regulators in the UK, USA and
StatPro Group, an AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has signed a three-year contract extension with FundBPO for StatPro Revolution, including a portfolio usage increase and an extension of
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has launched a new data platform following a successful early adoption program. The SteelEye product has been designed to help financial firms meet their obligations under MiFID II for Record Keeping, Trade
By James McDonald (pictured), CEO/CIO of Hercules Investments – America is in bad shape. While the rest of the world seems to be moving past the Coronavirus, the US is still experiencing record deaths nationwide. Americans continue to struggle just
Institutional investors based in Asia-Pacific have allocated more capital to hedge funds in recent years, reaching a record USD202 billion as of the end of 2016, up from USD180 billion a year earlier, according to Preqin’s new Hedge Funds in
Much is made in the mainstream media of the supposed greed and avarice of hedge fund managers but as a recent Emerging Managers survey, compiled by boutique prime broker GPP in partnership with AIMA reveals, the opposite is true. Far
