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Guernsey is proposing to adopt limited liability companies (LLC) in a move intended to enhance the island’s competitive position in the United States.
The island’s government, the States of Guernsey, has launched a consultation exercise, as it considers following many other international financial centre jurisdictions in introducing LLCs.
LLCs are commonly used in the US as structures for trading businesses, holding vehicles and special purpose vehicles. It offers a flexible hybrid structure for any lawful business purpose or activity, offering legal personality and limited liability in a tax-transparent structure. There has been commercial interest in Guernsey in introducing LLC
Ocorian, a provider of trust, administration and fiduciary services to corporate, institutional and private investors, has made three senior additions to its management team in Luxembourg – Susana Carvalho – Associate Director, Head of Funds Operations, Emmanuelle Poret – Head of Client Onboarding, and Rachel Aguirre – Head of Luxembourg Operations.
Managing Director and Head of Luxembourg and The Netherlands, Jean-Marie Bettinger, says: ‘We are delighted that Susana, Emmanuelle and Rachel have joined us at such an exciting time for the Luxembourg office. Their impressive experience and expertise will help us to continue to offer a high-level of client service and will also help
Vistra, a global trust, fund administration and corporate services provider, has appointed Jervis Smith as Country Managing Director of Vistra Luxembourg, effective 17 September 2019.
Smith will be responsible for leading Vistra’s Luxembourg office and growing the business, together with the Vistra office in The Netherlands, in order to maximise joint opportunities between the two offices, which share a mutual base of clients and culture. Based in Luxembourg, he will report to Vincent Bremmer, Regional Managing Director, Europe, Vistra.
Commenting on the appointment, Bremmer says: “Emerging as a jurisdiction of choice for corporations, institutional investors and private individuals amid
Alternative investment fund management company REDSIDE has appointed Petr Dudycha as a Marketing & Public Relations Manager.
Prior to joining REDSIDE, Dudycha was employed at the Prague office of a global law firm White & Case where he served as a Business Development and Marketing Coordinator. In this role, he was responsible to support lawyers and partners from Bank and Finance and Financial Restructuring and Insolvency practice groups in their business development and marketing activities as well as in event management.
Dan Ledvinka, Group Head of Business Development and Marketing in ASB Group, says: “I am pleased to welcome
Delta Capita, an international business and technology consulting and managed services firm, is collaborating with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) to help market participants meet their Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) trade reporting obligations.
Delta Capita’s banking consortium is creating a standardised SFTR industry test pack. Under this new collaboration, Delta Capita will make the test pack available to DTCC to test its own SFTR matching and reporting service prior to launch. DTCC opened user-acceptance testing with industry vendors on August 30, 2019.
Clients of DTCC’s Global Trade Repository (GTR) service for SFTR – who independently license
In a world awash with data, hedge fund equity analysts looking for that one data point that could generate alpha face a significant challenge, akin to finding a needle in a haystack. But as data volumes have grown, so too has the pace of technology innovation.
There is now an impressive array of technology solutions to support the buy-side. One of these firms is Sentieo, a financial data platform utilising artificial intelligence and cutting edge search technology to essentially ‘Googlise” the equity research process; and in turn, help equity analysts find those metaphoric needles in haystacks by spending more time
FX prime brokers, JP Morgan and NatWest Markets are now providing access to Spotex’s institutional ECN. The prime brokers join as Spotex expands its presence in the institutional FX market segment with the introduction of new disclosed direct market access (DMA) liquidity pools as well as other initiatives to broaden participation on its ECN.
“We are excited to have JP Morgan and NatWest Markets join our existing tier-one prime brokers enabling institutional client access to Spotex,” says John Miesner, the firm’s Senior Managing Director. “We are committed to working with leading FX institutions to deliver powerful innovation to the foreign
Nasdaq has partnered with Blockchain Investments & Co, a thesis-driven crypto investment management fund and data provider, to add descriptive, rating, correlation, forecasting and sentiment crypto asset data to Quandl, Nasdaq’s institutional data platform.
The new data products are aimed at providing institutional investors with greater insights, to make better and more informed decisions and boost their confidence in understanding and investing in this upcoming asset class. Nasdaq’s Quandl platform will source the qualitative and quantitative data from Blockchain Investments & Co, enabling a wide variety of in-depth crypto asset data to support purposes such as research, investment and regulatory,
Trium Capital, a London-based alternative asset manager, has brought quantitative investment group Sabre Fund Management (Sabre) into its multi-boutique structure. Sabre, established in 1982, is one of Europe’s longest-running hedge fund firms.
Sabre’s award-winning Quantitative Equity Arbitrage fund has a 17-year track record. The fund, which is equity market neutral, has been managed by Dan Jelicic, Chief Investment Officer, since its inception and has returned 166.56% in the 17 years since its since launch (Aug 2002-July 2019).
Alongside this pioneering strategy, Sabre also brings its successful Sabre Dynamic Equity fund, launched in 2013, which incorporates an element of directionality,
Following a strong July, CTAs reported positive performance again in August. The SG CTA Index was up +3.45 per cent, adding to gains of over +10 per cent YTD, which would put them on track for their best year since 2014.
Short-term CTAs also made performance gains in August, up +1.84 per cent, but returns were mixed with seven out of ten constituent managers positive with the rest negative. Trend followers continued to do well and extend gains, as the SG Trend Index was up +6.52 per cent and +19.96 per cent YTD.
Attribution data from the SG Trend
