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The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) has added 23 companies to its Registration Deficient or RED list.
The RED list is made up of unregistered foreign entities that the CFTC believes are soliciting and accepting funds from US residents at a retail level for, among other things, trading in foreign currency (forex) or binary options, and who are required to register with the CFTC but, in fact, are not registered.
These 23 new additions bring the total number of foreign entities on the RED List to over 40.
Registration is no guarantee against fraud or mismanagement by an otherwise
Hedge funds gained 2.53 per cent in March, its best month since January 2012 when it rose 3.10 per cent, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index. The Index is down 0.88 per cent after three months in 2016.
“Rebounding oil prices and dovish central bank policy and statements helped propel mid-February’s equity and high yield rally into March,” says Sol Waksman (pictured), founder and president of BarclayHedge.
Overall, 15 of Barclay’s 18 hedge fund indices were profitable in March. The Emerging Markets Index led the way with its 5.06 per cent gain, Event Driven rose 3.58 per cent, Equity
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Global Transaction Services, a full-service straight-through-processing (STP) offering automating trade lifecycle events between firms, processed 817 million trades in 2015, up 16 per cent since the end of 2014.
Over 3,800 investment managers, broker/dealers and custodian banks around the world are leveraging the suite, with Asia-Pacific experiencing a 17% increase in new buy-side clients.
DTCC’s Global Transaction Services include three specific solutions: Omgeo Central Trade Manager (‘Omgeo CTM’) is DTCC’s strategic platform for the central matching of cross-border and domestic transactions; Omgeo OASYS (‘OASYS’) is DTCC’s US domestic trade allocation and acceptance
Challenges presented by the financial crisis have largely been met and firms need to focus on the positive long-term prospects despite short-term inhibitors to growth.
A new paper from SimCorp – ‘Pursuing Growth in Uncertain Times – Capturing the Long-term Opportunity’, presents new findings from analysts and industry experts about the main opportunities for growth in the asset management industry.
The report argues that many of the key pain points such as risk management, regulatory compliance, reporting and cost control, which have been consuming a significant amount of executive time since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis, are
By Donald A. Steinbrugge, CFA, Managing Partner, Agecroft Partners – I would like to share some thoughts regarding New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS) voting to exit all hedge funds.
Pension funds should always be managed in the best interest of the plan’s beneficiaries. I believe this blanket decision to eliminate a full set of investment opportunities may result in doing the exact opposite. In addition, some of the comments by people associated with the pension fund raise concerns.
The first of these is the pension fund’s consultant stating they can reach their targeted investment returns with less
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up 0.3 per cent in March, with nine out of 11 Lyxor Indices ending the month in positive territory, according the April edition of the Lyxor Alternative Industry Barometer.
The Lyxor LS Equity Long Bias Index (+2.3 per cent), the Lyxor Fixed Income Arbitrage Index (+2.1 per cent), and the Lyxor Special Situations Index (+1.4 per cent) were the best performers.
Monetary meetings, minutes, and speeches continued to dominate market trends. The ECB and the Fed were more dovish than expected, boosting risky assets. A majority of hedge funds strategies delivered positive returns led
A new report from the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) and the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) has outlined the legislative requirements and market-based tools available to manage liquidity risk in investment funds in Europe.
The report also offers some recommendations to further improve the general liquidity management environment.
Multi-strategy hedge fund manager Elliott Management Corporation, which holds an approximately 6.6 per cent interest in Polycom, Inc common stock and an approximately 9.7 per cent interest in Mitel Networks common stock has announced its support for the Mitel-Polycom transaction.
“The combination of Mitel and Polycom makes perfect strategic and financial sense,” says Jesse Cohn, senior portfolio manager at Elliott. “The combined business will have far greater scale than either company alone, the ability to deliver a full array of products to customers, and the means to invest behind product areas that will provide stability and growth for the future.
When considering how to "supercharge" the alternative funds industry, one region that continues to offer growth potential is Emerging Markets. There are myriad opportunities to harvest yield, but equally there are plenty of risks to navigate. As such, fund managers will need to take a measured, country-by-country, sector-by-sector approach in 2016 to realise gains.
As Paul Schulte, Founder and Editor of Schulte Research commented on one of the panel sessions at CAIS 2016: "Alibaba in China is going to become one of the largest banks and media companies in the world. At the same time, I would suggest that the
CONCERT Global, a Silicon Valley-based advisory technology firm, has formed an alliance with iCapital Network to deliver a complete alternative investments solution to CONCERT’s growing network of independent advisors and broker/dealers.
“Alternative investments can play a critical role in a well-constructed portfolio but, until recently, haven’t been readily accessible to all advisory professionals and their qualified clients,” says Felipe Luna, CEO of CONCERT Global Group, Ltd. “iCapital Network has created an elegant solution that eliminates the historical barriers to this important asset class and fits seamlessly with our platform and mission to help advisors scale, grow and deliver the highest-quality
