The AIFM Directive may not be universally welcome but with greater focus being applied to compliance and operational risk oversight within the fund management industry, it is at least ensuring a new breed of higher quality fund manager; which for
Aladdin Capital Holdings has strengthened its credit hedge fund offering by acquiring Solent Capital Partners’ synthetic collateralised debt obligation business. Neal Neilinger (pictured), chief investment officer at Aladdin Capital, says: “There is an incredible momentum within the firm not only
The October edition of Hedgebay Trading’s monthly index has shown that the purchase of hedge fund assets is being driven by two prevailing sentiments among investors, creating a two-tier hedge fund market. The Hedgebay Global Hedge Fund Secondary Market Index
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Core Hedge Fund Index, which provides daily valuations allowing investors to more accurately track the impact of market events of the hedge fund industry, finished up 1.44% in April. Oliver Schupp (pictured), President of Credit
Cordium, one of the industry’s leading regulatory and compliance firms, has devised a new offering for the European market to help managers overcome the marketing challenges of AIFMD. Entitled the Cordium Total AIFM Solution (CTAS), the objective is to establish
Last May, MS Management Services SA, a Luxembourg-based subsidiary of the Maitland group, received authorisation from the CSSF to act as a third-party AIFM to alternative investment funds. At the same time, it established its own umbrella fund platform, MS
Advisory firms face new vulnerabilities caused by a powerful combination of risks, according to a white paper released by SEI. The Risk Dynamic examines how five distinct, yet interrelated, risks compound firm pressures, such as diminished operating margins and revenues,
The financial services industry exchanges information on securities using some 55 symbologies. Third-party providers have had to develop and maintain complex workflows in order to map diverse market identifiers to the business processes that serve their clients. This requirement has
Ask any AIFM what the key regulatory challenge is under AIFMD and the response is unanimous: Annex IV reporting. The first deadline, 31 January 2015, has passed. But there are still many points to clarify on a substantial transparency report;
Alternative fund managers wishing to continue to market their funds into Europe have to navigate unchartered territory. The AIFMD only really kicked in last July at the end of the grandfathering period, since when both EU and non-EU AIFMs have
