Options available to fund managers marketing into Europe under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) will be the focus of a Guernsey funds masterclass in London next year. The event, which takes place at the British Museum on Wednesday
FAB Partners, a global alternative investment platform, has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Halkin Asset Management, a London-based alternative asset manager. The combined company will be rebranded as Centricus and will continue to target returns across
Luxembourg is prepared and has a key role to play in ensuring the success of the new European Long-Term Investment Funds (ELTIFs), which came into being this week, according to the Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI). ELTFIs have
One of the persistent pain points for alternative fund managers is finding a way to streamline the investor onboarding process by automating the subscription document process. To date, this has remained a notoriously inefficient and error-prone set of processes, stymieing
The past 12 months has seen The Bahamas review its existing legislative framework for investment funds, with a view to ensuring that it maintains its competitiveness. Under the existing framework, some of the innovations that The Bahamas has introduced, such
Linedata has partnered with NetWorth Services to offer Linedata Admin Edge clients access to NetBasis, NetWorth’s automated solution for the calculation and reporting to the IRS of the adjusted cost basis of sold mutual funds. NetBasis will automatically interface with
There has been a continued evolution of the asset management operating model over the last couple of years. Gradually, both traditional long-only managers and alternative fund managers have been shifting away from a multi-vendor, purpose built system model to more
MarketAxess Holdings has added the ability to trade local currency Asian bonds to its electronic trading platform. The initiative is part of a commitment to expanding in the Asia Pacific region which includes opening an office in Hong Kong, the
Close to 70 per cent of fund manager clients, prospective clients and consultants attending a Northern Trust event on regulation believe that the upcoming regulatory environment will demand more of their time, compared with time spent over the past year.
The current bull market started in March 2009 and is now in its 80th month. Like the bulls of the past, this current one will end, maybe not just now, but eventually. Our models don’t detect a bear market yet,
