Tim Levy, chief executive of GBP6bn alternative investment firm Future Capital Partners, is about to embark on a expedition led by Bear Grylls through the Northwest Passage. Future Capital’s investment partnership Future Fuels, which will fund the construction of a
The ongoing market volatility has copper-fastened the hedge funds’ outlook towards power and energy stocks, which seems to be in the positive.
BGC Partners, an intermediary to the wholesale financial markets, has completed the acquisition of various assets and businesses of Mint Partners and Mint Equities through BGC Brokers. Over 100 brokers from Mint’s international business will join BGC. Mint will conduct
SEI has expanded its proprietary Portfolio Monitor compliance system to help money managers enhance the depth and flexibility of portfolio compliance testing in the face of ongoing regulatory changes and increasing investors demands. SEI has been utilising Portfolio Monitor to
Managed futures gained 0.09 per cent in July, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. Year-to-date, the Barclay CTA Index has lost 0.91 per cent. “As market participants moved from a risk-avoidance posture to a more risk-seeking strategy
By Tom Kehoe CAIA, Global Head of Research, AIMA – We are at a very interesting inflection point in our capital markets. Ten years following the last significant global liquidity crisis which fuelled the subsequent global financial crisis of 2008,
Custom House Global Fund Services has launched The Nascent Fund Sicav, an open-end Maltese domiciled Sicav umbrella fund platform for managers wishing to start their own new fund and establish a track record. Custom House says the fund is
After two months of severe disappointment stock market investors seemed to renew with unbridled optimism in July, with the S&P 500 index rising by 7.01 per cent, its best return over the past 12 months, and implied volatility (23.50 per
ALPS has launched the ALPS Real Asset Income Fund, a portfolio of real asset investments in master limited partnerships (MLPs), global infrastructure, and commodities. ALPS has partnered with Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, CoreCommodity Management and Alerian in the management
VTFinTech, a provider of portfolio management and research evaluation services, has partnered with Alphametry to provide its Parity One based Research Evaluation technology on the Alphametry research platform. Available now, the partnership offers asset managers a quantitative way of assessing
