Cybercrime presents the biggest disruptive threat to the asset management industry over the next five years, according to a survey conducted by Linedata in Q4 2015. Over a third (36 per cent) of respondents were concerned about the threat from
Regulation Automated Trading (Reg AT) is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) attempt to provide rules around the ever-changing and growing automated trading environment on the US Futures Exchanges. Many of the proposed regulations and safeguards are already in place
DTCC-Euroclear Global Collateral, a joint venture (JV) of Euroclear and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), has published a white paper, Implications of Collateral Settlement Fails: An Industry Perspective on Bilateral OTC Derivatives. The paper examines the market implications
Frost Consulting has launched FrostRB, a research valuation & budgeting software platform which gives asset managers the ability to establish monetary (dollar) values for specific unpriced research products and construct monetary research budgets that meet MiFID II research spending requirements.
Hedge funds are expected to outperform equity markets in 2016, according to Deutsche Bank’s 14th annual Alternative Investment Survey, Additionally, 41 per cent of respondents plan to increase their hedge fund allocations during the year. The survey, which polled the
Frost Consulting has launched FrostRB, a research valuation & budgeting software platform which gives asset managers the ability to establish monetary (dollar) values for specific unpriced research products and construct monetary research budgets that meet MiFID II research spending requirements.
The introduction of the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) is having little impact on the scale of US alternative fund managers’ activity in the European market, according to research looking at US manager attitudes towards the regulation. The
The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB), the standard-setting body for the hedge fund industry, has published its standardised Administrator Transparency Reporting (ATR) data structure as part of its Toolbox. The HFSB is custodian of the Hedge Fund Standards, and is
Obtaining accurate look-through data on fund of funds investments is set to be the second great Solvency II hurdle facing insurers and asset managers, according to Silverfinch’s 2015 review. The report states that the advent of Solvency II means that
Institutional trading desks are approaching alternative trading systems with more caution and, at times, even skepticism, according to the Greenwich Associates 2015 Trade Desk Optimisation Study. And that’s despite dark pools’ share of total US equity volume holding steady at
