BNY Mellon is a prominent investment company in the financial industry. It has a market capitalisation of USD45 billion and is one of the world’s largest investment managers with USD1.7 trillion in AUM. More specifically, BNY Mellon is best known
There are plenty of push and pull factors influencing hedge fund administrators but whilst there are those who are getting distracted by M&A activity, one administrator that is taking advantage of the situation to win new business is Opus Fund
According to Mark Hedderman (pictured), CEO of Custom House Fund Services, the hedge fund administration industry needs a moment to reflect and think long and hard about what the preferred model to conduct hedge fund administration should be. It’s time to
According to a report produced last August by PwC entitled ‘Hedge Fund Administration – The quest for profitable growth’, there have been 27 HFA acquisitions since 2006, with 11 of those targets running USD20 billion or more in AuA. As
Active boutique investment managers have consistently outperformed both non-boutique peers and indices over the past twenty years, in many cases by a wide margin. That’s according to a new study – The Boutique Premium – by Affiliated Manager Group (AMG),
The CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK) has responded to the Fair and Efficient Markets Review (FEMR” report on behalf of its 11,000 members. The CFA UK welcomes the acknowledgement that high standards of professionalism need to be applied
The long-term success of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (SHSC) hinges on removing the many barriers to participation, including features of the program that restrict trading strategies, introduce risk and create operational complexity. That’s according to a new whitepaper published
The hedge fund industry took in USD950 million (0.04 per cent of assets) in April, reversing March’s outflow of USD750 million (0.03 per cent of assets), according to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research. “Investors have been showing less interest in
The majority of advisors intend to continue recommending alternative investments over the next year, yet believe the asset class has underperformed since the economic crisis, according to a new survey from Pershing. The study, Help or Hype: Advisor Perceptions of
In its latest Investment Outlook to investors, London-based hedge fund Fasanara Capital explains how liquidity-induced markets are prone to asset bubbles and how VaR shocks are now inevitable. According to Fasanara, such causes have to be found on the markets’
