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By Amanda Daly, EzeCastle Integration – When confronted with unexpected business disruptions, alternative investment firms must react swiftly, methodically and successfully or else risk significant financial loss. This level of response requires extensive business continuity planning to ensure allspects of a firm’s business are evaluated and protected. In this blog, we will help you create a Business Continuity Plan and help you identify which threats pose a risk to your firm.
1. Regulatory review and landscape
The first step to creating an Business Continuity Plan is to perform a Regulatory Review as all businesses have requirements coming from oversight bodies. There are also
Asset manager Letterone Treasury has selected Enfusion’s Integráta investment management platform.
Letterone manages USD25 billion AUM, with over USD7 billion in a treasury portfolio primarily comprising fixed income, credit derivatives and private debt. Letterone transitioned from a large incumbent legacy system to Integráta in four months, whilst reducing their overall IT footprint and the total cost of ownership.
“Our previous system was supported by several other disparate processes run in isolation; with Integráta we have achieved a consolidated ‘single-truth’ across front, risk and back office functions. We have been impressed with Enfusion’s willingness to invest in their cloud infrastructure
Axioma has launched axiomaBlue, a cloud-based environment providing best-of-breed solutions and tools that enable investment managers to create, implement and scale unique investment strategies in a cost-efficient way.
“The business of investment management has changed,” says Sebastian Ceria (pictured), CEO and founder of Axioma. “Competition is increasing and margins are shrinking. Cost-efficient discovery, differentiation and implementation are essential to achieving superior performance. axiomaBlue is a customizable ‘no-compromises’ environment enabling investment managers to efficiently construct and scale firm-specific investment strategies to enhance competitive advantage.”
A combination of three main features differentiates axiomaBlue from existing investment-management offerings.
Firstly, axiomaBlue provides
Asset manager SwissOne Capital has added to its crypto staff with the appointment of fund manager Kenneth Hearn (pictured).
“We want to offer clients proven-practice methodologies applied to crypto. In that respect we’re thrilled to welcome Kenneth Hearn to our team,” says Antony Turner, CEO of SwissOne.
The investment management company says its roster of finance veterans and exotic asset analysts bridges the gap between traditional practice and crypto’s innovative emergence.
“I’m excited to usher in this new, sturdier approach to crypto,” says Hearn, who brings a wealth of experience having worked for prestigious institutions including Barclays and
Asian equity specialist, Coupland Cardiff Asset Management (CCAM) is launching a daily dealing Irish fund seeking to capitalise on the rapid growth in domestic demand in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Myanmar.
The CC Indian Subcontinent Fund is focussed on encapsulating opportunities within the region that are benefiting from a large domestic market rather than those reliant on export trade.
The investment team consists of Abhinav Mehra, based in Singapore and Andrew Draycott, based in the UK and is a high conviction, index agnostic, concentrated long-only equity portfolio of 25 to 40 stocks. It is focussed on high growth
Omniex, an institutional investment and trading platform for crypto-assets, and Gemini, a regulated institutional crypto exchange, have cross-connected in Equinix’s low-latency NY5 data centre which caters to large financial institutions and electronic trading ecosystems.
The partnership to deliver the connectivity, features and high-performance trading experience institutional investors need, but was previously missing in the world of crypto investing.
“Fragmented and immature crypto market structure has left institutional investors at a loss for robust solutions, forcing some providers to resort to tweaking platforms engineered for other asset classes,” says Hu Liang, CEO and co-founder of Omniex. “Cross-connecting to Gemini in
Many Alternative UCITS funds continue to have a difficult time delivering in 2018. The LuxHedge Global Alternative UCITS Index posted a small loss of 0.01 per cent, bringing 2018 YTD to -1.43 per cent.
Half of the nearly 1000 index constituents posted positive results in September. Fund picking remains of utmost importance in this universe as illustrated by the large spread between the best performer in September (+17.4 per cent Global Macro fund) versus the worst (-6.7 per cent Equity Long/Short Emerging Markets fund).
After a 5 per cent increase in assets under management between January and August, investors
Man Numeric, Man Group’s fundamentally driven quantitative investment business, has appointed Paul Kamenski and Robert Lam as Co-Heads of Credit, based in Boston.
In these new roles, Kamenski and Lam will be responsible for the ongoing development and day-to-day portfolio management of all credit strategies at Man Numeric. Man Numeric’s newly launched credit business leverages the firm’s nearly 30 years of experience in quantitative equity investing, along with Man Group’s combined scale and expertise in credit investing and execution, to build an institutional-quality systematic credit offering for clients.
Kamenski joined Man Numeric in 2012. He was most recently a
SaxoSelect, a digital service that enables clients of Saxo Bank to invest in pre-selected investments, has reported a 36 per cent increase in AUM for its range of Managed Trading Strategies over the third quarter.
The sharp increase in riskier investment strategies comes despite an uncertain economic background throughout the quarter.
SaxoSelect saw a 14 per cent increase in total AUM across all of its portfolios, with 10 per cent coming from capital inflows and 4 per cent from investment performance. The increase in AUM in the current market signals a desire from investors to make their money work,
“I would say every day I get two or three inquiries on some crypto or blockchain-related project. There is a lot of interest in all things crypto here in the BVI,” observes Michael Killourhy, Partner at Ogier (BVI).
Such is the level of interest that earlier this year, Killourhy (pictured) noted in a briefing that the BVI was keen to investigate a role in this new capital raising phenomena, which, it is believed, raised an estimated USD3.5 billion in ICOs around the world during 2017.
According to Cryptobriefing, over the first six months of 2018 the BVI saw
