Sentieo has launched a new cloud-based integrated Research Management System (RMS), which is aimed at helping analysts seamlessly organise research and collaborate with colleagues. The RMS provides deep analytics for investment professionals to identify and analyse behaviour and processes that
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has appointed Deloitte Consulting as an advisory collaborator in its ‘Market Roadmap’ project. This ambitious project, conducted at the ten-year anniversary of the coining of the term impact investing, will assess industry progress to date, codify
In the face of costly regulation and a low margin environment, asset managers are increasingly recognising the need to overhaul the current industry model in order to stay profitable, according to a new survey by Multifonds. The investment software and
Efforts to improve gender diversity at UK hedge funds and private equity firms and other investment partnerships is slowly paying off, according to executive search specialists DHR International. The firm reports that the number of female partners has increased faster
Most alternative investment management firms are able to turn a profit and expand with considerably less than USD100 million in assets, according to a survey of sub-USD500 million firms by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and boutique prime broker
Pan-European private equity firm IK Investment Partners’ (IK) IK Small Cap I Fund is to acquire a minority stake in Third Bridge, a primary research provider. Financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed. Third Bridge provides its clients
The final regulations of MiFID II announced today are likely to lose brokers business, analysts their jobs and also hit fund managers’ profits says Cleveland & Co Associates, the boutique legal advisory business. Among the new regulations of MiFID II,
CTAs suffered from another trend reversal and underperformed last week, according the latest weekly brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Lyxor writes: “From a top down perspective, we maintain an underweight stance on CTAs. In our view, the trend
In the fourth quarter of 2015, institutional asset owners gained approximately 2 per cent at the median, according to Northern Trust Universe data. This marked a significant rebound from the median loss of 4.6 per cent recorded in the third
Much like a brooding teenager, cash has become a high maintenance asset class as a result of events over the last few years. Whether it is finding liquidity to put to work for new investment strategies (or, for that matter, support
