Managers
ENSO Financial Analytics (ENSO) has launched ENSO Color Portal, which allows managers to receive prices and anecdotal colour tailored specifically to their trading activities.
Hedge funds typically receive an extensive amount of information from brokers – most of which is not related to their actual portfolios. ENSO Color Portal allows them to customise, qualify and rank the commentary and balance sheet opportunities they want, all in seconds.
ENSO Color Portal revolutionises the way that dealers interact with hedge funds. Apart from allowing them to communicate rates and commentary to both existing and future clients, they can now quantify the number
Emerging markets hedge funds have benefited from the strong recovery of the Russian Rouble, higher oil prices, lowering of interest rates by the Chinese Central Bank, and a surge in trading volume on the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program.
As a result of these, hedge funds investing in Russia and China posted strong gains in recent months, with the HFRI EM: Russia/Eastern Europe gaining nearly 20 per cent since the start of February, and the HFRI EM: China Index adding over 20 per cent YTD 2015 through April.
Despite volatility to conclude 2014, total hedge fund capital invested in Emerging
Aberdeen Asset Management is to acquire FLAG Capital Management, LLC (FLAG), a manager of private equity and real asset solutions with offices in Stamford CT, Boston, MA, and Hong Kong.
This acquisition is in line with Aberdeen’s strategy to strengthen and grow its global alternatives platform and solutions provision via multi-manager coverage of hedge funds, property and private market allocations, infrastructure investments and pan-alternative capabilities. FLAG’s well-established private equity teams in the US and Asia will help broaden Aberdeen’s private markets solutions activity within the alternatives arena.
As of 31 December, 2014, FLAG managed assets of approximately USD6.3 billion
Angel Oak Capital Advisors, an investment management firm focused on providing opportunistic fixed income investment solutions, has reached USD5 billion in assets under management across its family of investment products.
“Angel Oak Capital continues to grow as we identify new ways to provide innovative solutions for fixed income investors,” says co-founder and managing partner Brad Friedlander. “We are pleased to have achieved such a significant milestone and believe the continued demand for less traditional, credit-focused fixed income products will allow us greater room to grow.”
The company’s two public mutual funds, the Angel Oak Multi-Strategy Income Fund (ANGLX), which received
The hedge fund industry has now reached USD3.16 trillion in assets as of the end of Q1 2015, but a growing proportion of these assets are concentrated among a small pool of large managers, according to Preqin’s latest hedge fund spotlight.
The “USD1 billion Club”, which now includes 570 managers, represents 11 per cent of the total 5,122 single-manager hedge fund managers across the globe. But these firms command a total of USD2.78 trillion of industry capital, which amounts to 92 per cent of the total assets in hedge funds.
Some 22 fund managers currently handle USD20 billion or more
Shanghai Stock Exchange, China Financial Futures Exchange and Deutsche Börse are to launch a joint venture to develop and to market financial instruments based on Chinese underlyings to international investors outside mainland China.
The venture is designed to support the internationalisation of the Chinese currency; therefore, products will be offered in Renminbi (RMB). The company will be named ‘China Europe International Exchange’ and will commence market operations in Q4 2015. The initial scope of product development will cover cash market products for market launch.
Shanghai Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse will each own 40 per cent and China Financial Futures
When the FATCA returns and listing deadline of 1 June ends, financial institutions must quickly turn their attention to even more expensive and burdensome regulations.
Justin Hayes, product manager at Linedata, the leading international software and solutions provider, outlines the impact the OECD Common Reporting Standards, dubbed ‘Global FATCA’, will have on the industry. “Under the OECD Common Reporting Standards, dubbed ‘Global FATCA’, financial institutions have just seven months to get their act together as they will be required to track unprecedented volumes of investor information from the start of next year,” says Hayes. “This will be an unparalleled regulatory
IKONIC Fund Services has chosen Nedelma Portfolio Amalfi to provide enhanced, dynamic reporting to its hedge fund clients.
Now, IKONIC’s daily servicing clients will receive their fully reconciled and priced portfolio data on a T+1 basis via Nedelma’s dynamic and flexible reporting tool. Nedelma has licensed Portfolio Amalfi to IKONIC enabling the company to offer powerful portfolio data visualisation, slice and dice capabilities, and a range of attribution analysis to its clients.
In an increasingly competitive market, IKONIC strives to provide value add services to their clients to meet both the investment manager and the fund investors demands for
Latest figures released on Jersey’s finance industry show a steady performance including a small increase in banking deposits and signs that a change to fund regulation will support certain types of new funds business.
Banking deposits have reached their highest level since last summer and while there was a small fall in the value of funds, this has followed a period of consistent growth each quarter, so overall the economic picture is very stable. The statistics, collated and prepared by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), are for the three month period ending 31st March 2015. Headline figures include:
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Franklin Templeton Investments has launched it first multi-manager, liquid alternative strategy in Canada, the Franklin K2 Alternative Strategies Fund, providing institutional investors with access to a portfolio of alternative investment strategies managed by institutional hedge fund managers.
"In today's volatile, low interest rate environment, Canadian institutional plans are looking for investment options that can help reduce volatility in unpredictable markets, while providing attractive risk-adjusted returns," says Dan Elsberry, head of Alternatives, North America Advisory Services, Franklin Templeton Investments. "Franklin K2 Alternative Strategies Fund can be a compelling investment option for such investors, as well as those who are looking to
