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Hector McNeil (pictured), co-Founder and co-CEO, HANetf presents his most recent commentary, arguing: The Case for Non-Transparent Active ETFs.
Growth in the ETF industry is sustained, long-term and global – at the time of writing, there have been 51 months of consecutive net inflows to the industry.
This expansion is being sustained by both internal innovation and external mega-trends. The previous HANetf paper ‘Win the Future’ described the external influences that are fuelling the unprecedented growth of the global ETF industry – automation, technology, focus on fees and regulatory initiatives – but the ETF industry is also seizing the
Stone Coast Fund Services, Basiz Fund Services and North Street Global are the latest firms to join the North American Fund Administration Association (NAFAA), a group for the alternative investment fund administration industry.
“The alternative fund administration industry is transforming and administrators recognize that NAFAA presents an opportunity to collaborate to address how these changes might affect their business strategies,” says founding director, Chris Meader (pictured). “We are thrilled that Stone Coast, North Street Global and Basiz have decided to join to help strengthen the efforts of the association to advance the alternative fund administration industry.”
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The Maltese Parliament has unanimously approved three blockchain bills as the island looks to establish itself as a cryptocurrency hub.
In addition Stephen McCarthy has been appointed as CEO of the newly established Malta Digital Innovation Authority.
Malta-based law firm Chetcuti Cauchi Advocates says the rapid development of the blockchain-based business has left many entrepreneurs and technical service providers at a loss as to how to regulate and licence their businesses. Malta has now become one of the first jurisdictions to regulate the blockchain sector.
The MDIA Bill establishes the Malta Digital Innovation Authority (MDIA) and provides the
HFR has launched the HFR Bank Systematic Risk Premia Indices which includes 40 indices delineated along a nested matrix of established risk premia asset type and strategy.
HFR says risk premia strategies have experienced a surge in interest from both institutional and retail investors as a result of high liquidity and flexible tactical exposures. The universe of bank risk premia strategies surpassed USD700 billion in notional capital in 2018 and leverages a universe of over 1,200 risk premia products.
The HFR Bank Systematic Risk Premia Indices offer daily performance reporting categorically delineated across a robust asset type and
Hedge funds posted another positive yet meagre gain in June, dragged down by the losses of emerging markets managers, according to data released by Eurekahedge.
Distressed debt hedge fund managers maintained their position across strategic mandates with their year-to-date return, despite the lack of significant movement in the high yield and leveraged loan markets.
CTA/managed futures hedge funds continued to struggle as the commodity markets came under the pressure of trade war concerns and tariff spat between major economies.
Fund managers focusing on emerging markets struggled during the month as the underlying equity markets came under the pressure
Voting for the for the 2018 edition of the annual Hedgeweek USA Awards is now closed. These prestigious awards recognise excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers in the USA.
Uniquely, our awards are based on a ‘peer review system’ whereby our readers – including institutional and high net worth investors as well as managers and other industry professionals at fund administrators, prime brokers, custodians and advisers – are invited to elect a ‘best in class’ in a series of categories via an online survey.
Please note that you can self-nominate and participate in more than one category.
Award winners will be
PortfolioScience, a provider of on-demand risk management systems, today announced that INTL FCStone, an execution, clearing, risk, and market intelligence provider for commodities and other asset classes, has selected the RiskAPI platform to analyse the exposure of its client portfolios.
RiskAPI is a hosted, on-demand portfolio risk analysis service that includes coverage of both listed and OTC derivatives.
“PortfolioScience’s RiskAPI has demonstrated an ability to rapidly provide accurate risk analytics for complex portfolios. Market data is handled by them on the server-side and integration is light, which has meant relatively little time spent on setup, and more time managing
After being just slightly positive in April 2018, hedge fund AUM were just slightly negative in May of this year, with investors pulling USD1.59 billion from the industry during the month, according to the latest eVestment Hedge Funds Report.
Overall year-to-date fund flows are still positive, at +USD12.51 billion, with overall industry AUM sitting at USD3.319 trillion.
Despite the visible negativity, there are still many products gaining assets, but for each gainer there was another losing a little bit more. For instance, among hedge fund types, Equity-focused funds pulled in +USD3 billion in May and Commodities funds pulled in
LGT Capital Partners reports that European alternatives managers’ adoption of ESG principals has increased.
The sixth annual ESG Report assessed some 294 managers globally, grading them on how successfully they have integrated environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into their investment activities.
The report found that the majority, at 58 per cent, of private equity firms are rated as either ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’ in terms of ESG integration, compared to just 27 per cent in 2014, indicating that this has been made a priority by private equity managers.
Europe continues to lead the way in ESG integration, particularly
StatPro Group, an AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has appointed Gordon Bloor, as the CEO of one its divisions Source: StatPro.
In 2019, the Group is to be structured into three divisions; Revolution (analytics), Source: StatPro (data services), and Infovest (integration services). This structure will make the operations of the business clearer, provide distinct divisional management focus and enable growth in each division based on specific divisional priorities.
Source: StatPro provides a pricing service for a wide range of assets and will contain StatPro’s data revenues from market
