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Investcorp: Best Seeding Platform – Amidst various economic and geopolitical uncertainties, Investcorp has made significant progress executing its growth and diversification strategy. In the last year, the global alternative asset manager entered new geographies, strengthened its presence in adjacent asset classes, expanded its institutional client base and launched new lines of businesses. This was executed while embracing a culture of best practices supported by a strong alignment of interests that includes sharing in the risks and rewards with the firm’s clients, a long hallmark of Investcorp’s success.
The firm grew both AUM and profitability with AUM reaching a record $28.2 billion,
Eze Castle Integration: Best Cloud Services – Cloud technology and security risks continue to evolve and Eze Castle Integration is working incessantly to develop solutions to empower and protect their investment management clients in the face of this evolution.
Eze Castle Integration is a managed service provider focused on the hedge fund and alternative investment industry. The firm is global in nature and support its 650 clients across the US, HK, Singapore and London.
Mary Beth Hamilton, Vice President of Global Marketing, explains how the firm has seen the market evolve from a private cloud approach to greater interest being
Regulatory technology company, Evidology Systems, is launching a new service which combines real-time specialist legal opinion with principles-based regulations compliance software.
QED (Quality and Evidence Driven), which Evidology describes as a second-generation solution, aims to simplify and optimise the process of demonstrating compliance to a regulation or conformance to a standard. This visual system utilises current legal opinion to allow organisations of any size to demonstrate compliance at all times with increasingly-complex regulations, including GDPR, FRTB, SMCR, ISO 27001 and PSD2.
Rupert Brown, CTO of Evidology Systems, says: “Principles-based regulations are a guessing game for many financial institutions, because
Harneys: Best Offshore Law Firm – Laws in several financial jurisdictions, such as Luxembourg, BVI, Cayman Islands and Cyprus, are constantly changing. To ensure law firms uphold best practice at all times they require a combination of a strong team, robust communication, systems and practices. In addition, crucial investment in technology can help enhance a firm’s service offering further.
“This year we’ve seen more changes than ever before. The pace and ferocity with which new legislation is coming is unlikely to change any time soon,” comments Ian Gobin, joint global head of our Investment Funds and Regulatory at Harneys, “It’s our job
DMS Governance: Best Offshore Regulatory & Compliance Firm – In today’s ever-changing regulatory environment, asset managers can expect existing and upcoming product ranges to be affected by new regulation. DMS Governance supports its clients through a governance, risk and compliance framework to prepare them for any upcoming changes.
“We aim to help clients implement any regulatory change before it becomes a challenge,” explains Matthew Brown, Managing Director, DMS Governance. “A relevant and recent example of this in practice would be the implementation of the updated anti money laundering legislation in the Cayman Islands. DMS provides AML officer solutions that our clients
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for October 2019 measured 1.15 per cent.
Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.50 per cent in November.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index showed a gain of 0.50 per cent for November 2019, reflecting net inflows for hedge funds. Although the gain was slightly lower than the 0.61 per cent increase in net flows reported a year ago, the result is well within the range of normal variation,” says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “Overall, we see this month
Constellation Advisers: Best Regulatory Advisory & Compliance Firm – Hedge funds continue to face increasing demands by institutional investors. Delegating key, non-investment related functions to experienced outsourced partners, can see funds of all sizes optimise and streamline their operations.
Constellation Advisers can support all non-investment functions of an organisation in a more cost-effective manner. This provides clients with better efficiencies and additional bandwidth while keeping their needs at the forefront of the service.
“We have a “client first” approach and will continue to keep that at the forefront as we deliver high touch support and strategic advice to our clients. Our
Cowen Outsourced Trading: Best Outsourced Trading Solution – Experienced traders, well established and highly regarded buy-side order management and execution technologies overlaid with a totally transparent operating model is what drives the core of the service Cowen Prime Services provides its clients.
The firm’s business model allows clients to know which broker they are executing every trade with and what they are paying for that service. Cowen further employs independent trade cost analysis firms to verify and rate execution quality under the best execution practices.
Jack D Seibald, Managing Director, Global Co-Head of Prime Brokerage and Outsourced Trading at Cowen expands on this:
It gives me great pleasure to provide a foreword for this year’s Hedgeweek US Awards report, in which we showcase some of the industry’s award-winning service providers. This year, we took a detailed methodological approach to selecting our fund manager award winners, with help from BarclayHedge, who were very supportive each step of the way. What is unique about our awards programme, however, is that every winner is selected by Hedgeweek’s readership, and is, as such, a peer review. We think this helps give an additional layer of authenticity. And gives each award winner a legitimate right to share their
GMEX Group (GMEX), a specialist in digital business technology solutions for capital markets, in collaboration with Digital Partners Network (DPN), is to launch the Digital Investment Fund PCC (DIF).
DIF is a Professional Fund registered in the Seychelles, approved and regulated by the Seychelles Financial Services Authority (FSA). As the first ever tokenised hybrid fund, which is regulated, it bridges the gap between the conventional and digital investment worlds.
DIF has been set up as a Protected Cell Company (PCC), with initially three cells:
• Digital FinTech Fund (DFF) – A digital technology incubation/ early stage investment fund supporting
