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Fair Oaks Capital was launched in 2013 by senior professionals previously at GSO Capital Partners and Apollo Global Management. It characterises itself as a research-driven investment manager with a focus on fundamental corporate credit analysis.
“Our focus is to identify the highest conviction strategies in credit markets at any point in time for our liquid and long-term funds. We aim to offer investors differentiated opportunities which offer attractive risk-adjusted returns and low correlation with their more traditional positions,” explains Miguel Ramos, Partner.
Fair Oaks Capital’s first fund was launched in June 2014 as a listed, closed-ended vehicle which invests in
For over 30 years, Align has been building intelligent technology infrastructures, networks and private clouds, in various industries throughout the world. Over that time, much has changed in the industry as technology advances have re-shaped and re-imagined what is capable in the world of fund investing. Speaking with Hedgeweek, Vinod Paul, Chief Operating Officer of Align, refers to two key milestones in 2017:
• The company expanded its cybersecurity consulting practice with the launch of Align Cybersecurity, the first comprehensive risk management solution in the world. Our unique suite of services encompasses solutions around technology, compliance, risk management and security awareness
Sydney-based Invast Global is a subsidiary of Japanese listed Invast Securities Co Ltd. Employing a prime-of-prime model, Invast leads the industry in the provision of multi-asset high-quality, non-bank Prime Services. It provides credit intermediation, access to liquidity (both OTC and exchange) and comprehensive trading platforms/API connectivity options.
With a client base of brokerages and hedge funds spanning the globe, the company has experienced impressive growth in its prime services offering, which gives institutional clients collateralised access to premium liquidity in OTC FX, Metals and Energy products, as well as direct connectivity to over 30 global exchanges and OTC venues.
“We
Agecroft Partners was founded by Don Steinbrugge, who has 34 years of experience in the institutional investment management industry, including previously serving as the head of sales for one of the world’s largest hedge funds and institutional investment management firms.
“Agecroft has changed the model of hedge fund third party marketing,” says Steinbrugge. “Most third party marketing models are based on leveraging personal relationships and doing extensive entertaining. Ours has been to build a global brand with a reputation as an industry thought leader, strong institutional investment knowledge and representing high quality managers”
Agecroft Partners has been a prolific writer
SS&C GlobeOp, a division of SS&C Technologies, is one of the best-known hedge fund administrators, servicing some of the industry’s largest hedge funds. Year-on-year, the group saw its total hedge fund assets under administration rise from USD584 billion to USD739 billion.
Last year, SS&C GlobeOp saw increased demand for outsourced solutions driven by clients looking to re-engineer their operating models to create scalability and cost efficiency in the face of increasing complexity. This played to its strengths, given the technology heritage of SS&C Technologies and as Ken Fullerton (pictured), Managing Director, Global Co-Head of Hedge Fund Services, explains: “SS&C’s ability
Pillar Capital Management (‘Pillar’) was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bermuda. The firm manages open-ended Bermuda incorporated funds invested in the global property catastrophe risk market.
The senior management team at Pillar, headed up by CEO and CIO, Stephen Velotti (pictured), has an average of 25 years’ experience in the reinsurance marketplace.
Pillar Capital is focused on providing alpha to investors through the reinsurance space. It aims to provide an attractive yield for investors while managing the risk it takes to achieve its returns. Analysing the entire market from the large reinsurance sector to the small ILW market
Last year, hedge funds recorded positive returns during every month to end the year with gains of 11.41 per cent according to the 2018 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Outlook report.
For HedgeMark, a BNY Mellon company, this was particularly pleasing as institutional investors, particularly fund-of-fund managers, continued to adopt the use of dedicated managed account structures to optimise their hedge fund investment programmes; something that HedgeMark excels in with its Dedicated Managed Account solution.
“We also saw an increase in demand from the public pension space and we would expect to see a number of plans begin to build out
It’s fair to say that Optima Fund Management has seen a lot of change in the hedge fund industry, given that it is preparing to celebrate its 30th anniversary.
Since Dixon Boardman founded the New York-based firm in 1988, it has steered a steady course. It has continued to evolve in line with market trends so as to unearth the best hedge fund talent, which feature in a range of multi-manager funds, the first of which, a long/short equity FoFs, has been running since the year of Optima’s inception.
“Despite all the changes in the industry, Optima’s success is based
Iron Cove Partners (ICP) is a leading full-service national insurance brokerage firm serving the financial services industry. Headquartered in Garden City, Long Island, ICP is a trusted advisor with decades of experience and over 150 hedge funds as clients.
ICP specialises in meeting the unique insurance demands across all areas of the financial services industry including: investment advisers; hedge funds; private equity funds; mutual funds; broker-dealers, and investment banks.
Louis D’Agostino is Principal of Financial Services practice at Iron Cove, which provides expertise to hedge funds, registered advisers, private equity funds, broker-dealers, and mutual funds. 2017 was another great year with
A lot has transpired since ML Capital founded its Irish-domiciled MontLake UCITS platform in October 2010 during the first wave of the alternative UCITS boom. From launching with just a single UCITS Fund, ML Capital finished 2017 with 25 UCITS funds on the Platform and over USD5 billion in Group AUM, and now sits as one of industry’s most visible and successful players.
Richard Day (pictured), COO of ML Capital says 2017 was a record year for the group in terms of assets under management and top-line revenue growth:
“Over the year, we added seven new funds to the platform.
