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Broadridge Financial Solutions has launched its new Solutions Partner Program, a global channel sales initiative that enables leading consulting, technology and servicing firms to offer expanded technology solutions that leverage the company’s suite of products and services as well as resell its solutions into select customer accounts.
Broadridge has hired 20-year industry veteran Ira Newman to lead the Program.
Broadridge’s Solutions Partner Program provides a flexible forum for partners, including consulting, technology and servicing firms, to develop new offerings, explore common customers and reach new clients. It offers partner firms global access to proven technology solutions across Wealth Management,
Barak Fund Management, an Africa-focused alternative fund management company, has chosen TFG Financial Systems to provide it with TFG Complete, TFG’s fully integrated middle office and risk management system.
TFG will be supporting two new Barak funds, investing in the commodities and forex markets respectively.
Barak is a specialist in commodity-focused investment opportunities and trade finance across the sub-Sahara African region. Based in Mauritius (with the Advisory team sitting in South Africa), Barak invests across 30 African countries, with particular focus on the soft commodities and food product-related sectors.
Lourens Harmse (pictured), Fund Manager of the new Barak Sarafu African
Schroders has launches the Schroder Alternative Solutions Commodity Total Return, a new fund offering commodities exposure with a flexible approach, allowing it to take advantage of a wide range of opportunities, as well as limit downside risk.
The fund will invest in energy, agriculture and metals sectors worldwide and will adopt a highly flexible strategy which includes the ability to take short positions and the use of leverage.
The fund will be managed by Schroders’ commodities team, led by Geoff Blanning. Schroders has strengthened its investment resources in commodities in the past two years with the hiring of a Metals
BNP Paribas Investment Partners, Odey Asset Management and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank are the newest members of the International Accounting Standards Board’s (IASB) Investors in Financial Reporting programme.
The programme was established in 2014 to increase the Board’s engagement with the investment community. The new joiners bring the total number of investment organisations in the programme to 18. The other members of the programme are Aberdeen Asset Management, Allianz Global Investors, APG Asset Management, AustralianSuper, BlackRock, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Fidelity Worldwide Investment, Henderson Global Investors, Hermes Investment Management, Insight Investment, Lazard Asset Management, Nomura Asset
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) in line with its growth strategy achieved record results in both sales and profits in 2015.
In the course of the year, EEX Group, now fully incorporated with the companies Powernext, EPEX SPOT and APX, implemented a series of measures which aimed to increase volumes in its core markets, while expanding its product portfolio into new regions and product classes.
EEX Group sales revenue increased by 147 per cent to a total of EUR190.4 million. Iris Weidinger, Chief Financial Officer of EEX, says: “The full consolidation of the new companies has made a significant contribution
The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for April 2016 decreased to 109.1, down 5.7 points from March’s revised reading of 114.8. The decline in sentiment was driven by a decrease in the North American ICI from 123.7 to 115.
The Asian ICI decreased by 4.2 points to 107.8 while the European ICI fell the least, from 95.8 to 95.3.
The Investor Confidence Index was developed by Kenneth Froot and Paul O’Connell at State Street Associates, State Street Global Exchange’s research and advisory services business. It measures investor confidence or risk appetite quantitatively by analysing the actual buying and
Citi Private Bank North America’s National Hedge Fund Sales Team, which focuses on the private banking needs of hedge fund founders, has grown by more than 50 per cent since inception in 2015 and currently has 140 hedge funds and their principals as clients.
The team is led by Keith Gertsen (pictured), Managing Director, Citi Private Bank, North America.
"Hedge fund principals have unique personal financial planning and investment needs, often with significant wealth concentrated in their funds. Our momentum in this space is a testament to our ability to deliver the full capabilities of our Institutional Clients Group platform
Five new investment platforms have joined the Millennium Trust Company’s Millennium Alternative Investment Network (MAIN), bringing the total number listed to nine.
In addition to Lending Club (NYSE: LC), announced earlier this month, EquityZen, iCapital Network, Prodigy Network, and RJ Oasis are now available through MAIN.
Millennium Trust collaborates with leading online investment platforms and service providers to create solutions that use technology to provide qualified investors with an easy way to find and research alternative investments, and then purchase and custody the investment through their Millennium account.
Alternative assets are expected to grow to as much as USD15.3 trillion
Investors redeemed an estimated net USD4.60 billion from hedge funds in March, the fifth month in the last six in which redemptions outpaced allocations, according to the latest eVestment Hedge Funds Industry Asset Flow Report.
Performance gains during the month offset redemption pressure, helping to increase total industry assets USD29.59 billion in March to USD2.982 trillion.
Investor flows were negative in Q1 2016. Net outflows of USD14.35 billion followed net outflows of USD26.77 billion in Q4. The current wave of investor dissatisfaction is similar to what the industry experienced in H2 2011 in the aftermath of losses from the first
CIBC Asset Management has launched the Renaissance Flexible Yield Fund, providing Canadian investors with access to a mandate from US bond portfolio manager, Jeffrey Gundlach of DoubleLine.
Renaissance Flexible Yield Fund is a global fixed income solution that leverages tactical allocation and active duration management with the goal of providing investors with attractive potential total return, while aiming to lower volatility. The fund has flexibility to move across multiple fixed income sectors and the portfolio manager may tactically adjust sector weights to capture opportunistic gains from market fluctuations.
"We are delighted to bring this unique fixed-income mandate to Canadian investors
