Cantor Fitzgerald & Co, has expanded its private securities business with the formation of Cantor Private Markets Group, offering clients alternative investment opportunities including private company stock, private real estate investment trusts, and private equity and hedge fund interests.
INTECH Investment Management LLC (INTECH) has launched a suite of absolute volatility equity strategies, offering institutional investors the potential for both equity-like and above-market returns, at lower volatility than is associated with capitalization-weighted equity indexes. These new strategies, Low Volatility
“We’re seeing more interest than we did in the past. PERE managers are looking for expertise from their service partners under the AIFMD. In the past they would have gravitated towards other jurisdictions. More service providers are now comfortable with
On 3 October 2014, Clearstream, a Luxembourg-headquartered international central securities depositary, successfully completed the acquisition of Citco Global Securities Services Limited (CGSS). With the integration of around 300 Citco employees, the Cork-based office is now Clearstream’s largest operational hub for
Quintillion Limited is a European-based affiliate of U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, a global alternative administrator with assets under administration of USD117bn, with Europe’s AuA totalling approximately USD19bn. Over the last two years, Quintillion focused on making structural changes to the
It is highly anticipated that Ireland will have a new corporate vehicle for Irish funds in place by the end of 2014: the Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicle or ICAV. Its imminent introduction will provide managers with an alternative to the
A new publication from ERI Scientific Beta, the index arm of EDHEC Risk Institute, entitled “Robustness of Smart Beta Strategies,” reviews the importance of robustness for smart beta strategies. The paper also explains various methods by which smart beta strategies
Despite equity markets collapsing this summer HSBC private bank’s HNW clients have not overreacted by initiating wholesale sell orders because they can afford to handle today’s volatility, helped by the fact that their portfolios aren’t too concentrated. That’s the opinion
Fitch Ratings' 2015 rating and sector outlooks for investment managers are stable despite increasing competition between traditional and alternative investment managers to meet retail investors' growing appetite for alternative investments and secondary risks associated with a potential interest rate rise.
Armstrong Investment Management yesterday (28 Sep) hosted a breakfast seminar at Brunswick Group’s London office entitled: “How to preserve and grow your wealth in an inflationary/stagflationary environment?” In the opinion of the firm’s eponymous founders, Dr Ana Armstrong and Patrick
