Funds
Irish start-up, Fund Recs, a developer of cloud-based reconciliation software to global fund administrators to to provide trade processing solutions for Capita Asset Services fund business in Ireland.
Fund Recs software will be used to automatically capture trades from Fund Managers and post them to Capita’s internal fund accounting system.
Fund Recs was founded in 2013 to provide reconciliation software to global fund administrators. Its software allows companies automate the reconciliation of Cash, Position and FX holdings on the funds they administer thereby removing the operational risk of manual mistakes. Fund Recs also provides a manager dashboard giving a
This week the Management Board of Directors of the Palaedino Fund announced that London-based Sabre Fund Management Limited had launched the Sabre Dynamic Equity Fund.
This is the seventh fund to join the Palaedino UCITS Platform, a Luxembourg SICAV established in November 2009. The Management Company of the Platform is FundPartner Solutions (Europe) S.A., a 100 per cent affiliate of the Pictet Group based in Luxembourg.
Sabre Dynamic Equity is a quantitative long/short equity fund that invests across a broad universe of 800 large/midcap European stocks and 500 large-cap US stocks. The strategy achieves its performance from exploiting systematic
Equinox Funds has expanded its Alternative Strategy Platform with the addition of the Equinox Aspect Core Diversified Strategy Fund (EQAIX).
By deploying a medium-term trend following strategy developed by Aspect Capital Limited (Aspect), a legendary alternative asset management firm based in London, the Fund seeks to quantitatively identify and profit from price moves in highly liquid and diverse futures markets across global asset classes.
"At Aspect, we believe that trend following strategies can be a source of persistent investment return opportunities and may provide valuable portfolio diversification," says Anthony Todd, CEO of Aspect. “And we are delighted to have partnered
Barclays and MSCI have launched a new green bond index family measuring the global market of fixed income securities issued to fund projects and initiatives with direct environmental benefits.
The Barclays MSCI Green Bond Index family complements the existing Barclays MSCI ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Fixed Income Index family, and is now available to institutional clients to license for their index-linked investment products, such as Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), separately managed accounts, and structured products.
Eligibility for the Barclays MSCI Green Bond Index family is based on an independent and objective assessment of securities by MSCI ESG Research
Credit Suisse Asset Management (CSAM) has closed its ILS Property & Casualty Fund (the P&C Fund) with a total of USD576 million in capital commitments from a diverse mix of institutional investors.
The P&C Fund includes investors from the US and Europe consisting of public and corporate pension funds, insurance companies, funds of funds, asset managers, endowments, foundations and family offices.
CSAM's P&C Fund complements Credit Suisse's global Insurance Linked Strategies (ILS) business. Credit Suisse is a leader in insurance linked strategies with more than USD6.5 billion in assets under management. Insurance strategies have historically offered relatively low correlation to
An increasing proportion of investors in hedge funds are based in the Asia-Pacific region. Who are these investors and which strategies are they targeting? Preqin examines the hedge fund investor landscape within this dynamic region.
Asia-Pacific is home to just under two-thirds of the world’s population and is a burgeoning region encompassing emerging, developing and advanced economies. Rapid growth has led to immense wealth generation that has contributed to a surplus of savings from countries in the region. Given this backdrop, institutional investors based in the region have been growing in prominence over recent years. Entrusted with vast amounts of
Aliier, a global TAMP working with equity managers, fixed income managers, alternatives and hedge funds, has signed Seattle-based Rainier Investment Management as a sub-advisor to the Aliier Passport platform.
Rainier joins a growing line-up of fund managers who are taking advantage of the insulation the Aliier Passport platform provides for the risky and complex issues of international access and distribution.
Allier works with both separate account managers and fund managers from around the world to provide them turn-key single contract access to various international markets. Aliier is also continually working to expand its international network of distributors to effectively
Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), Blackstone’s hedge fund solutions business, and NWI Management (NWI), a global macro hedge fund, have launched Blackstone NWI Asset Management.
BNAM will offer a platform of investment solutions for investors seeking to access fixed income emerging markets exposures.
NWI is contributing investment and trading capabilities for the new venture while BAAM is responsible for the non-investment functions, including operations, marketing, legal and compliance related duties. In addition to the Blackstone and NWI resources, BNAM has hired dedicated employees to focus on portfolio management and other functions for the BNAM platform.
The new venture
Greensolver, the independent wind and solar farm asset manager, has launched Greensolver Index, its asset management performance benchmarking tool for the UK and Irish wind and solar energy markets.
Traditionally, funds, utilities and independent power producers have had to rely on isolated project portfolio performance information to analyse energy generating asset performance.
The new index enables asset managers and investors to move beyond these points of reference and ultimately make better-informed future investment and asset management decisions.
As wind and solar projects become of increasing interest to clean energy investors and the secondaries market, there is a growing
The Conifer Group, which merged with Vastardis Capital to form Conifer Financial Services – an asset services firm offering front to back capabilities across all asset classes to pensions, endowments, family offices, hedge funds, private equity and venture capital managers, RIAs and traditional asset managers – is celebrating 25 years in the industry.
Jack McDonald, president and CEO of Conifer Financial Services, says: "Bill Vastardis and I extend our personal assurance that the superior services our clients have enjoyed will continue. We are committed to providing enviable levels of personal service, technology and financial expertise that are unsurpassed in the
