Franklin Square Capital Partners, a manager of business development companies (BDCs), has unveiled an new structure for non-traded alternative investments that reduces fees and seeks to align the interests of investors, advisors, regulators and sponsors. The firm recently announced that
For the first time in several years, investors have begun expressing an interest in opportunities in Asia, according to Agecroft Partners. The firm says that investors have shared increasing concerns about the high valuations of both the US equity and
Hedge funds returned an average of 0.21 per cent in May 2017, and aggregate returns are +3.20 per cent YTD in 2017, according to eVestment’s Hedge Fund Industry Asset Flow Report for May 2017. May performance was led by funds
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for June 2017 measured 3.59 per cent, up from 3.08 per cent in May. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for June 2017 was 3.59 per cent, reflecting a sharp drop from the 4.88 per
Wholesale electronic trading platform ParFX has expanded the number of currencies in its offering with the addition of the Hungarian forint (HUF). In recent years, the Hungarian forint has become increasingly popular among the global FX trading community, with approximately 90 per cent of Hungarian forint trades executed outside of Hungary’s domestic
Mark Hawtin, Investment Director, GAM, on the challenges facing Apple… The numbers reported by Apple last night showed that Apple is struggling to grow in a smartphone market that is becoming saturated at the high end. The move to the iPhone
Up until recently, machine intelligence could only be used by large sell-side institutions and sophisticated quantitative trading groups to improve how they operated in the marketplace. But as technology advances continue to push the depth and breadth of machine learning
Luxembourg is one of the world’s leading onshore domiciles where, over the last 30 years, it has become the default option for managers wishing to establish UCITS funds. It is, by size, the world’s second largest fund centre after the
MPL Management (Luxembourg) SA is a third-party `Super Management Company’ providing fund governance, operational support and oversight to both UCITS funds and AIFs. It is part of MPL Group, founded by William Jones in 2006, who has, over the past
Alternative assets fund managers hold a record USD7.4 trillion in combined assets under management (AUM) in 2015, up from USD6.9 trillion a year before, according to Preqin’s 2016 Global Alternatives Reports. The private capital industry in particular has grown over
