ETF Securities has established itself as one of the true pioneers in the commodity ETP arena. Commodities dominate the firm’s product suite of 278 ETPs with 100 individual ETCs available to investors. As to where investors should be focusing their

To countenance the idea that any form of economic slowdown in China could lead to an extended period of depressed commodity prices is misguided. Admittedly, commodity prices over the least three years have been poor. But in the view of

Over the past 12 months the S&P 500 index has gained nearly 24 per cent. With the US economic recovery building momentum, the UK enjoying its fastest period of growth since 2007 and the Eurozone returning to some sort of

For the most part a lot of the drama surrounding the role of depositories and prime brokers under AIFMD has subsided. All parties concerned have pretty much fallen into line and are clear with what everyone’s roles and responsibilities will

SuMi TRUST Global Asset Services provides sophisticated fund administration and custody services in the UK and Ireland and is backed by Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank Ltd (SMTB), the largest Trust Bank in Asia with over USD3tn in assets under custody.

Both depositories and fund administrators face huge demands from a data management perspective under the AIFM Directive. For any depository appointed by an AIFM running an onshore hedge fund, the scope of responsibility is greater than that required under a

“By allowing managers of non-BVI funds to apply for the Approved Manager license it simply strengthens the BVI product even more,” comments Nicolaas Faure, Executive Director of Drake Fund Advisors, an emerging market specialist. “We are one of the preferred

By Simon Schilder, Partner, Ogier – Whilst the twin challenges of investor capital continuing to favour established investment managers and increasing barriers to entry for new start-up investment managers, meant that at times 2013 was a fairly challenging year for BVI

By Doug Nairne – One of the most important changes in the global financial industry over the past three years, and indeed the business environment as a whole, is the increased importance placed upon due diligence. That means paying closer

By Simon Gray – Risk is the element that hedge fund managers above all others, are supposed to thrive on, but members of the industry long ago understood that there are many more facets to the concept than the market