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Robeco has launched Robeco QI Global Multi-Factor Bonds, a new strategy that builds on the company’s long history of factor investing in credits, in combination with its factor investing philosophy in the government bond market.
Aimed at outperforming the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index, it represents one of the first factor investing solutions for the broad global fixed income market.
The fund invests in a diversified fixed income portfolio of credits and government bonds with balanced exposure to the low risk, quality, value, momentum and size factors. Due to its highly systematic nature and distinct investment style, investors in
CAMRADATA has published a new whitepaper entitled, Global Growth in Global Equities, which examines the outlook for global equities investments and considers why they continue to be the pillar of investors asset allocation and whether this trend will continue.
The whitepaper includes insight from investment managers and pension managers from firms including Artemis, CQS, Mackenzie Investments, Aon, MJ Hudson Allenbridge, Redington and PwC, who attended a recent CAMRADATA Global Equities roundtable.
It highlights that global equities remain the backbone of investment allocation for institutional investors, with over 90 per cent of asset owners invested in global equity strategies, which
VoxSmart, a specialist in mobile surveillance technology, has announced its acquisition of the Fonetic Trading business to deliver a comprehensive communications surveillance offering for Capital Markets participants.
Recent high-profile regulatory investigations and prosecutions, such as the WhatsApp scandal at KPMG and the FCA’s prosecution of a VTB Banker over deleted WhatsApp messages, together with substantial market demand for greater consolidation of the RegTech landscape encouraged VoxSmart to acquire the Trading assets of Fonetic as a logical progression into the wider surveillance market.
Juan Manuel Soto, Chief Executive Officer at Fonetic says: “We have seen time and time again the financial and reputational
HSBC Global Asset Management (HSBC GAM) has launched the HSBC GIF Asia High Yield Bond Fund, which aims to provide long term total return by investing in a portfolio of high yielding Asian bonds.
The fund will be managed through a disciplined investment process with an active, fundamental approach, combining top-down macro assessment and bottom-up credit analysis. It will invest mainly in non-investment grade bonds, but can also selectively take positions in investment grade and unrated bonds.
The fund will be managed by HSBC Global Asset Management’s Asian fixed income team, comprised of over 30 experienced investment professionals in
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued an order filing and simultaneously settling charges against Goldman Sachs & Co for failing to make and keep certain audio recordings as required under CFTC regulations for swap dealers.
The order requires Goldman to pay a USD1,000,000 civil monetary penalty and to cease and desist from further violations of Commission regulations, as charged. The order also finds that Goldman’s failure impeded an unrelated investigation conducted by the Division of Enforcement (Division).
“Registrants must comply with the Commission’s record-keeping requirements, as with all other applicable laws,” says CFTC Enforcement Director James McDonald. “When
Fund finance lawyer Aimee Sharman has joined Mayer Brown as a partner in the firm’s Banking & Finance practice in London. Sharman was previously at Hogan Lovells.
“Aimee is a talented, established lawyer in the fund finance market, and we are delighted to welcome her to the team,” says Dominic Griffiths, London partner and co-head of Mayer Brown’s global Banking & Finance practice. “The continued expansion of our fund finance capabilities is a key priority for the firm given our strategic focus on the global finance market and financial institutions. We are investing for growth in the main markets in
Former UBS veteran, Claude Waelchli, is to launch a US-based digital securities issuance platform, Tokenyz, which aims to modernise the legacy securities industry.
Stepping away from his role at UBS as Head of Portfolio Advisory for Global ultra-high net worth and institutional clients, Waelchli believes “digitisation of traditional securities will create exponential growth opportunities for traditional financial markets.” Especially the digitalisation of financial and real assets such as debt, equity and real estate, which represent a USD600 billion opportunity, according to The Money Project.
Digital securities have many advantages, such as automation of manual processes, faster settlement speeds, liquidity creation, lowering minimum trade
Three surveys published at the ALFI PE & RE Conference 2019 in Luxembourg on 26 and 27 November reveal continued solid growth in alternative investment funds in the Grand Duchy.
The ALFI/Deloitte Private Equity and Venture Capital Investment Fund Survey 2019 found that the size of the average private equity fund domiciled in Luxembourg has increased by 50 per cent since 2018, with the number of PE funds holding assets worth more than EUR1 billion doubling over the same 12-month period. Luxembourg now accounts for 4.3 per cent of the global private equity fund industry. The survey also shows unregulated
CryptoCompare, a specialist in digital asset data, has launched a suite of digital asset data products in the BT Radianz Cloud. The comprehensive real-time and historical dataset will provide institutional clients with a granular, reliable view of the digital asset class.
The addition of CryptoCompare’s full dataset will enable BT Radianz clients globally to gain access to a comprehensive market data offering including reference rates, trade and order book data across more than 150,000 cryptocurrency trading pairs. CryptoCompare collects, cleans and aggregates the data from over 180 cryptocurrency exchanges to provide a consistent, high-quality feed via WebSocket and REST API.
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data, has partnered with Columba Systems, an independent provider of international future financial events data to both sell-side and buy-side institutions.
With this partnership, clients will be able to access three different types of data – the dates and release times of Company Results, Company Meetings and the dates of upcoming Trade Shows and Investor Conferences, from company events worldwide.
“EDI is pleased to work with Columba Systems in order to provide their data offerings to its clients”, says Jonathan Bloch (pictured), CEO of Exchange
