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Antipodes Partners, a leading global equity boutique, has made a series of investment team and management appointments as the group’s growth continues to accelerate.
Antipodes Partners continues to witness strong investor demand – both institutional and retail – for its long/short and long-only global equity strategies, taking its AUM to approximately GBP4bn more than three years on from its inception.
Coinciding with the growth in investor demand, Antipodes Partners has also made a number of hires across its Sydney office and recently-established London office.
Andrew Findlay has been appointed managing director of Antipodes Partners, overseeing the group’s business
Index provider MSCI is adding more than 200 domestic Chinese equities to two of its benchmark indexes, in the first of two phases. Sukumar Rajah, senior managing director, Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets Equity, breaks down the implications for investors and says the decision represents broad support of the government’s positive policy changes…
Effective June 2018, index provider MSCI is including 233 Chinese large-capitalization (large-cap) A shares in its Emerging Markets Index and All Country World Index (ACWI), as well as its China Index.
An initial 5 per cent inclusion will be implemented in two phases, 2.5 per cent effective 1
RM Funds has announced the launch of the VT RM Alternative Income Fund (RMAI), an actively managed open-ended fund investing in defensive, income producing alternative assets.
Pietro Nicholls (pictured), Principal – Investment Manager of RM Funds, explains that the firm was launched in 2010 and spent the first half of its life as RM Capital Markets, an agency trading business in corporate credit.
A subsequent seeding two and a half years ago of USD50 million by an institutional investor pushed the company on its evolution into RM Funds which now has USD150 million under management for largely institutional investors, such
Cowen’s Westminster RPA team recently gathered senior-level clients in an open forum to garner actionable insights into how buy-side institutions are dealing with research unbundling following the 3 January, 2018 MiFID II implementation date.
The thought-provoking discussion was led by Robin Strong, Managing Director of Westminster RPA and Chris Tiscornia, CEO of Westminster Research, and following are key highlights:
(No quote attribution is given to any of the managers in attendance for confidentiality reasons.)
Research pricing
In the second half of 2017, the media seemed to primarily focus on how sell-side institutions would price their research. This was uncharted territory
Hugo Fund Services offers Swiss representation services to foreign fund managers wishing to market their fund(s) to qualified investors into the country. This follows changes to Swiss regulation in March 2015.
Qualified investors are defined under CISA (Collective Investment Scheme Act) as including pension funds, corporates and individuals with at least CHF5m in financial assets. Previously, only those funds that were registered for public offerings – which is now referred to as distribution to non-qualified investors – had to appoint a Swiss representative.
Although Hugo Fund Services was founded in 2014 to cater specifically to alternative fund managers, a joint
The world has become seemingly captivated by cryptocurrencies, driven by their rapid growth, both in terms of the number of cryptocurrencies and their prices. There are now over 1,500 cryptocurrencies with a combined market cap of USD500 billion. The rapid surge has meant that investors globally have started to pay attention.
At the same time, a consensus is emerging that the blockchain technology underpinning cryptocurrencies may be a game-changer for the global economy. The technology has started to be used by innovators in myriad fields looking for greater decentralisation.
That technology has come with its own financing model, the initial
Switzerland is currently witnessing an incredible wave of innovation in respect to crypto assets, with cantons like Zug leading the charge. This innovation is touching all aspects of business, with think tanks, regulators, law firms, incubation platforms, as well as hedge fund managers, all looking closely at how the underlying blockchain technology could lead to the digital transformation of global business.
As such, the following report will garner the views of a variety of Swiss-based actors on how they see the landscape evolving.
As reported by PwC, four of the largest initial coin offerings (ICOs) – which entrepreneurial start-ups use
Q&A with Omar Kodmani, CFA, a Senior Executive Officer and Global Head of International Business Development of EntrustPermal. Interview by Ole Rollag, Managing Principal of Murano.
Q. EnTrustPermal has been in the allocation business for a long time and at the forefront of alternative investing. How has the business evolved and are there any new challenges you are facing?
A. We have indeed been in the allocation business for a long time and as you know, EntrustPermal is the end product of two firms with a long and successful history in hedge fund investing; Permal with over 45 years, Entrust with
Vistra Fund Services (Guernsey) Limited has added to its team with the two new management appointments.
Gail Clark (pictured), joins Vistra as manager of the recently established corporate fiduciary team. Having worked in offshore finance for 28 years, she brings with her a wealth of experience.
Clark has knowledge and expertise in a diverse range of areas including fund administration, corporate fiduciary, private equity and client relationship management.
Vistra provides tailored trust, fiduciary, fund and corporate services to people all over the world. The business employs over 3,300 people, with over 50 of them based in Guernsey. The
Tages Capital, in partnership with California-based Dalton Investments, has launched the Tages Dalton Global Emerging Markets UCITS Fund, bringing the firm’s alternative UCITS range to five, and providing UCITS investors with another differentiated hedge fund strategy.
The Tages Dalton Fund offers investors access to Dalton’s extensive expertise in emerging markets within UCITS guidelines in a long/short format. The fund launched in mid-May and has already garnered nearly USD50 million of institutional capital.
Dalton Investments LLC is a value-focused investment management firm with expertise in Asia, emerging markets, equities and fixed income. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with a subsidiary office
