Managers
The Dutch hedge fund industry may be dwarfed in size by its London and New York peers, but you wouldn’t have realised that from the noise and enthusiasm generated at the recent Alternatives4Children (A4C) spring fund raising party at Amsterdam’s ANDAZ Hotel.
Marc de Kloe, outgoing Head of the Global Alternatives and Funds team for ABN AMRO Private Banking and Co-founder of A4C, said at the event: “The financial industry has not had the best press in recent years, but tonight you’re seeing what can be achieved when people choose to put aside the relentless pursuit of investment returns and contribute
Incapital LLC and Nuveen Investments have expanded their joint-distribution and portfolio consultant unit trust partnership with the addition of new unit trusts and expanded sales resources at both firms.
Since the beginning of 2014, Nuveen and Incapital have partnered together on key aspects of unit trust product development, marketing, distribution and client relationship management. In this partnership, Incapital serves as trust underwriter and sponsor, providing units to the public through broker-dealers and other firms. Nuveen Investments, through its several affiliates, serves as portfolio consultant responsible for developing investment strategies and constructing model portfolios for the unit trusts.
John DesPrez, Incapital's
CRYEX, the new digital currency trading and clearing platform, is partnering with CQG, a trade routing, global market data and advanced technical analysis provider, to offer connectivity to its members and participants from launch.
CRYEX will provide a trusted gateway between the traditional regulated financial industry and digital currencies. The new trading and clearing platform will enable regulated market participants to trade both FX and digital currencies through a single point of entry, providing a wide range of highly demanded products.
“CQG offers CRYEX members and other market participants a tier one order-routing, risk management and data analysis system,”
Trium Capital has launched the Trium Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund, which has been seeded by Trium Capital, and will be run by a team headed by James Jarvis, who joined the firm from PAAMCO’s Portfolio Management team.
The team has been built from the ground up to give investors a diversified portfolio constructed across both liquid discretionary and quantitative strategies. It initially consists of four lowly correlated books run by experienced investment specialists. The discretionary portion includes a fundamental long/short equity strategy and a special situations/opportunistic equity-biased book, whilst on the quantitative side there is a systematic macro and a
Deer Park Road is to launch a new fund – the SBF Opportunities Fund – on 1 July. The new fund will complement Deer Park’s two existing funds, STS Partners Fund and Burgess Creek Fund.
As with Deer Park’s existing funds, SBF Opportunities Fund will focus on mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities, but is expected to invest in a broader range of MBS/ABS securities. It is also expected to differ from Deer Park’s other funds by being more actively traded, and incorporating larger leverage and short components.
“The SBF Opportunities Fund is really a response to the numerous requests
BT is making it easy for investors globally to trade on the equities and derivatives markets of the Japan Exchange Group (JPX), Asia's largest exchange group and the third largest in the world.
Following an agreement between the two firms, members of the BT Radianz Cloud — the world's largest networked financial community — can now access a range of brokers and the market data needed to trade on JPX’s growing markets via their secure, cost-effective and reliable BT Radianz Cloud connection.
JPX joins a growing number of Asian exchange groups on the BT Radianz Cloud including the
Independent agency broker and execution specialist Neonet has added to its algorithmic trading suite with the launch of the new “Capture” algorithm.
Capture is a liquidity seeking algorithm designed to leverage a number of underlying algorithmic models and methodologies across both dark and lit markets, depending on the client’s urgency to complete the order.
“We are very pleased to announce the addition of our new algorithm ‘Capture’ which gives our clients a tool to find liquidity in various scenarios,” says Tim Wildenberg, Chief Executive Officer of Neonet. “The client can dynamically control the algorithm by determining the urgency required to
Pekin Singer Strauss Asset Management, investment advisor to Appleseed Fund and high-net-worth individuals, is supporting Sprott Asset Management’s offer to acquire all outstanding units of Central GoldTrust (GTU).
“As Central GoldTrust’s largest unitholder, we’re disappointed that the GTU trustees have so quickly dismissed the Sprott offer,” says Adam Strauss, Pekin Singer Strauss co-CEO. “Not only is Sprott’s exchange offer superior to the status quo, it already has significantly reduced Central GoldTrust’s net asset value discount as others in the market have recognised its value. We expect the discount will be reduced further when GTU’s physical gold assets are exchanged into
Under AIFMD, alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) looking to market their funds within the EU, Switzerland, and EFTA countries need to obtain and maintain an “EU Passport”.
As such, the AIFMs are required to register themselves and their managed funds and submit ongoing reports in order to comply with the directives to their local regulators.
In light of the reporting challenges, SIX Financial Information is providing the AIFMD relevant fund managers and funds data via its flagship reference data feed, VDF. SIX’s securities data enables AIFMs to calculate the correct asset values for the registration and reports to the supervisory
By James Williams – Private equity has never been synonymous with the word liquidity when it comes to investing in alternative assets, but a new report by SEI’s Investment Manager Services division suggests that this may be changing.
The report, entitled “Private Equity Liquidity – A Work in Progress”, finds that nearly half of general partners (47 per cent) and a third of limited partners (36 per cent) and consultants (33 per cent) agreed that the private equity market was “more liquid than it used to be”. For reference, SEI surveyed 212 private equity professionals during November 2014 to canvass
