Global hedge fund middle office and accounting firm Viteos has been awarded Best Global Shadow Accounting Firm at the Hedgeweek Global Awards 2017. Hedgeweek notes that the awards recognise “excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers (and) celebrate the achievements
Vincent Au, the portfolio manager at New York-based hedge fund management firm Gondor Capital Management, has told investors that the best measuring stick in determining performance are quarterly and yearly returns. “A good measuring stick is the returns of a
Triple Leo Consulting, founded by industry veteran Mike Quinn, has launched its full-service hedge fund administration and operational consulting business based in the Philadelphia suburbs. Triple Leo will offer full-service fund administration and operational consulting services to alternative investment managers,
The valuation of European stock markets is proving less attractive than previously, notably because of higher long term government bond rates, according to Renaud Froissart, manager of the Quaero European Long Short Equity Fund. The fund returned minus 2.7 per
Ronit Capital has launched the Ronit Global Opportunities UCITS Fund, a global long/short strategy focused on liquid emerging markets and the European periphery, on the MontLake UCITS Platform. MontLake is an independent platform for UCITS funds that provides investors with
SYZ Asset Management, the international asset management arm of the SYZ Group, has opened an office in Munich, strengthening its presence in Germany and its ability to provide services into Austria. The new office opening follows on from the opening
StatPro Group, an AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analysis and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has agreed to buy UBS’ risk and performance analytics service, UBS Delta. UBS Delta will enable StatPro to extend its
Bobby Johal, Managing Consultant, at Cordium, responds to the European Commission’s announcement that it has started work on the review of the AIFMD… The news that the European Commission has issued a tender for a one-year market study into the AIFMD
Data processing power has helped to transform the financial industry, thanks to the rise of GPU-powered applications; GPUs are Graphics Processing Units, commonly used by video game developers. Today, not only hedge fund managers but all asset managers, are looking
For newly emerging investment firms or long-standing established ones, the choice to adopt a cloud-based architecture is becoming an easy one. Few firms have a business model where an in-house Comm. Room makes strategic or economic sense. And even for
