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in association with HRH The Duke of Cambridge’s ongoing patronage of non-profit organisation’s philanthropic initiatives.
SkillForce is a national education and veterans charity dedicated to helping young people flourish through motivational mentoring and education programmes for five- to nineteen-year-olds. Their mission is to help young people develop the skills they need to succeed in education, work and life, drawing upon the military experience and values of ex-services personnel.
100WHF has a strong track record of supporting charities and has raised more than USD38 million (gross total) for philanthropic causes in the areas of women’s and family health, education and
The hedge fund industry produced an aggregate return of -0.26 per cent in November, bringing YTD returns deeper into negative territory for 2015, -1.21 per cent, according to eVestment’s latest hedge fund performance review.
The industry’s last annual decline was 2011 when average returns were -4.99 per cent and the S&P rose +.11 per cent.
Despite overall industry returns being negative in 2015, the distribution of returns across funds is very slightly in favour of positive performance (50.2 per cent positive, 49.8 per cent negative). The average positive return is 7.28 per cent and the average negative return is
Taurus Administration Services has acquired Pacific Fund Systems’ PFS-PAXUS integrated share registry/fund accounting platform to support a push into the European market, which it expects to grow as a result of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive.
Taurus will target start-up and sub-USD100 million funds often regarded as being too small by the larger fund administrators. Taurus has been appointed administrator to three alternative investment funds and has seen its assets under administration grow over the last two years from USD80 million to USD192 million in 11 funds. It has offices in Madrid, Geneva and the Cayman Islands and is
Global advisory, corporate development and executive search firm Jensen Partners has aligned with Context Capital Partners LP to launch Context Jensen Partners.
The new company will strategically address the obstacles faced by alternative asset managers who are focused on growing assets in an increasingly competitive fundraising environment.
Context Capital Partners (Context), a seeding firm focused on alternative investment strategies, is now a stakeholder in Jensen Partners (Jensen), which combines a customised, scientific approach with the proprietary 360° Investor Referencing Methodology and advanced behavioural analytics to source and recruit leading capital-raising executives and provide strategic consulting services for clients. This
During a period in which most asset classes sold off ferociously and fixed income provided no downside protection, the Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was down only 0.8 per cent. This highlights the resilience of this asset class to wide market movements.
MUFG Investor Services has secured all regulatory approvals for its acquisition of UBS Asset Management’s Alternative Fund Services (AFS) business and the acquisition has closed.
The deal forms part of MUFG Investor Services’ strategy to build a global industry-leading fund administrator. The AFS acquisition raises MUFG Investor Services’ total assets under administration to USD266 billion across 2,300 funds.
Junichi Okamoto, Group Head of Trust Assets Business Group, Deputy President, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation says: “AFS is a strategic addition to our business and demonstrates our commitment and ambitions within the fund administration industry. MUFG Investor Services is
Brokerage firm Triad Securities is expanding its managed suites offering by adding an area of 7,500 square feet meant exclusively for hedge fund managers.
Located in the historic Trinity Building at 111 Broadway in the Wall Street area, Triad Securities currently occupies 22,500 square feet of space and will be introducing custom suites that range from 1,000 to 5,000 square feet, at a rate which will be much more affordable than standard office space.
"Manhattan asking rents are up 10 per cent in the last 12 months and our start-up hedge fund clients have always had difficulty leasing relatively
Around half of hedge fund firms intend to launch a new hedge fund by the end of next year and most are reporting rising assets, according to a global survey by PwC and the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).
The report, ‘Distribution Disrupted – A Spotlight On Alternatives’, assesses the impact of regulatory reforms and changed investor behaviour on hedge fund distribution models and capital-raising efforts.
The survey of fund managers worldwide found 61 per cent reported rising assets in their hedge funds, while more than 80 per cent of firms that have liquid alternatives funds said those products
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for November 2015 measured 0.21 per cent. Hedge fund flows meanwhile, as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index, advanced 0.83 per cent in December.
"SS&C GlobeOp's Capital Movement Index of 0.83 per cent for December 2015 was closely in line with the previous 0.89 per cent for November 2015, a strong result when seasonality is considered," says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. "In fact, December of 2015 was actually the largest gain for the Index in the month of December since 2011.
CME Group, the world's leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, announced today that
One million contracts have now been traded on CME Group’s London-based derivatives exchange, CME Europe, which launched in April 2014. The total volume of contracts traded since launch stood at 1,002,497 as of 10 December 2015.
CME Europe's growth has been broadly driven across its product range in FX, energy and agricultural commodities futures contracts. This includes the award winning, euro-denominated, physically delivered cocoa futures contract launched in May 2015.
Cees Vermaas (pictured), CEO of CME Europe, says: "CME Europe has established itself in the European
