Funds
Funds with more than USD1 billion in AUM grew at an average of 135 per cent since the global financial crisis, while smaller funds only increased 15 per cent over that same five-year period.
What is causing bigger funds to continue getting bigger and receive the lion’s share of institutional allocations? How does your firm compete in this unique market dynamic?
Broadridge’s new whitepaper, Hedge Funds and Their Data: Investing in Operational Excellence and Attracting New Capital, authored by Tim Versteeg (pictured), explores how the changes in the industry landscape since the global financial crisis forced hedge funds
Here, we take a detailed look at the infrastructure industry in Australia, including a breakdown of Australia-based investors’ by preferred route to market, source of infrastructure allocation and assets under management.
Read the full factsheet here, featuring charts and tables showcasing the latest Preqin data on the Australian infrastructure market.
SEI has introduced a new global regulatory risk and compliance platform that centralises handling of an investment firm’s regulatory and compliance functions across investment vehicles, products, and jurisdictions around the globe.
SEI’s Investment Manager Services (IMS) division developed the suite to help its diverse investment manager clients rein in the escalating costs and risks resulting from the industry’s fast-rising tide of regulations.
“For years, investment managers have dealt with regulatory compliance in a reactive and siloed way, focusing on one product type, regulator, or regulatory regime at a time. But that approach is inefficient and error-prone, poses risks of non-compliance,
BlackRock has launched a new event-driven fund in Europe to meet growing investor demand for liquid alternative investments, and to take advantage of an attractive environment for company transactions and other corporate actions.
The BlackRock Strategic Funds (BSF) Global Event Driven Fund (the Fund) is the firm’s first UCITS-compliant event-driven fund in Europe and adds to BlackRock’s existing range of liquid alternative UCITS funds on the BSF platform. The Fund arrives at a time when increased market volatility and challenging returns from traditional equities and bonds are encouraging investors to seek alternative, uncorrelated returns.
Sheryl Needham, Managing Director, BlackRock
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for August 2015 measured -1.02 per cent. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.64 per cent in September.
"SS&C GlobeOp's Capital Movement Index for September 2015 showed a gain of 0.64 per cent, very much in line with August's 0.71 per cent gain as well as the 0.55 per cent reported a year ago for September of 2014," says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. "Comparisons for both the inflow and outflow components of the index were also
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has successfully launched trading in Cap Futures. This new derivatives contract allows EEX trading participants to hedge against price peaks that may occur on the German intraday power market.
The first trading transaction comprised a volume of 1,680 megawatt hours, traded at a price of EUR 0.20 per MWh for delivery in the calendar week 39 between RWE Supply & Trading GmbH and Vattenfall Energy Trading GmbH.
The payment threshold for the Cap Future is fixed at a price of EUR 60 per MWh. The amount of the payment corresponds to the difference between
Hedge funds focused on investments in Emerging Markets posted steep performance declines over the previous three months as regional equity and currency markets fell dramatically, driven in part by the devaluation of the Chinese Yuan by the Chinese Central Bank.
The HFRI Emerging Markets Index fell -4.5 per cent in August, extending the three month performance drawdown to – 9.2 per cent, according to the latest HFR Emerging Markets Hedge Fund Industry Report, released today by HFR, the established global leader in the indexation, analysis and research of the global hedge fund industry. Total hedge fund capital invested in Emerging
The hedge fund industry produced an aggregate return of -2.19 per cent in August, dropping YTD returns into negative territory, -0.95 per cent, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Performance report.
All major market exposure produced negative returns during the month, however most outperformed asset class benchmarks.
Origination & financing strategies, hedge funds that act as lenders (varieties of ABL) or loan originators, produced an aggregate decline in August, but outperformed all other major strategies not only during the month, but year-to-date as well. Gains and losses for the group were distributed evenly across the universe, however those posting
The London Metal Exchange (LME) has received independent confirmation that the LBMA Platinum and LBMA Palladium Prices it administers comply with the Principles for Financial Benchmarks published by the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).
The LME engaged Ernst & Young LLP earlier this year to examine the exchange’s price-discovery process for the platinum group metals. After a comprehensive review, Ernst & Young has issued its opinion affirming the suitability of the LME’s governance process and the effectiveness of its controls, as of 30 June 2015.
“The LME fully supports regulatory efforts to promote transparency, systemic stability and better
Touchstone Investments has launched the Touchstone Credit Opportunities Fund in an effort to take advantage of market inefficiencies and relative value opportunities in the global fixed-income market. Ares Capital Management II will sub-advise the Fund.
"We are thrilled to include this dynamic portfolio in our fund family and to have the deeply experienced Ares Management team managing the Fund," says Steven M Graziano (pictured), President of Touchstone Investments. "As market conditions continue to evolve, we see significant opportunities in the credit markets with many securities poised to benefit from capital appreciation and income generation."
Touchstone incorporates a sub-advisor model
