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Next February will be the fifth instalment of the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit (CAIS), hosted by Dart Enterprises at the stunning Kimpton Seafire Resort & Spa on Grand Cayman.
The theme of CAIS 2018 is the impact of technology on the industry: “Wired: The Rise of Alternative Investments in a Digital Age.”
“Each year, we want to create a theme that is relevant to the external influences facing the alternative funds industry and ensure that all the associated speakers, panels, and demonstrations that we arrange, are appropriate,” remarks Chris Duggan, Director of CAIS and VP of Community Development at Dart
Style Research, a specialist in factor-based analysis, has appointed experienced fintech leader Sebastien Roussotte (pictured), as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Roussotte succeeds Kirsten English, who was appointed as CEO by lead investor Lyceum Capital Partners in 2015. After successfully implementing a programme of significant investment, during which the global team has doubled to 60 professionals, she has now been appointed a non-executive director of Style Research. In this role, she will be responsible for examining potential partnership, merger and acquisition opportunities.
The changes come at a time of growing popularity for factor investing, with investment managers actively seeking ways to differentiate their performance. Style Research sets the standard for portfolio transparency, enabling managers
IPC, a provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, is to introduce Unigy 360, its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, to the Asia Pacific (APAC) market later this year.
IPC has been at the forefront of innovative communications solutions that meet the needs of financial market participants throughout Asia.
“With greater collaboration and mobility among front, middle and back offices a critical dynamic for an expanding population of regulated users in Asia, now more than ever financial market participants in the region will be able to benefit from the unified communications Unigy 360 enables through
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched DTCC Exception Manager, the latest addition to its Institutional Trade Processing product suite.
DTCC Exception Manager enables market participants to publish, manage and communicate exceptions throughout the trade lifecycle, and supports all securities transactions globally.
DTCC Exception Manager solves a major challenge for financial firms by establishing a central online industry platform that provides a single view of all post-trade exceptions, analytics to help identify the root cause of operational breaks and the ability to solve problems at the source, such as incorrect standing settlement instructions (SSIs). The service also
During the first week of 2018, Event Driven and diversified L/S Equity hedge funds outperformed, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team.
The fallout from the US tax reform spread and boosted event positions, as well as L/S equity’s cyclical stocks. Macro and Neutral equity strategies lagged. The former suffered from the weakness in USD and US rates. The latter remained challenged by sector rotations. In this piece, we present our 2018 outlook for hedge funds.
Lyxor writes: “We anticipate that extra-time of decent growth would support bottom-up strategies, though less than before and
Societe Generale Prime Services has announced the result of the annual review of constituents for its range of CTA indices and for the first time since inception in 2000, there have been no changes to the flagship SG CTA Index and SG Trend Index.
Tom Wrobel (pictured), Director of Alternative Investments Consulting at Societe Generale Prime Services, says: “There were no changes to our SG CTA Index and SG Trend Index in 2018, however, total assets under management continue to grow as these strategies continue to attract attention from institutional investors. The asset cut-offs for inclusion in all our CTA
Hedge funds closed the final month of 2017 in positive territory with the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index up 0.84 per cent in December while the MSCI World Index finished the month up 1.19 per cent.
That’s according to the Eurekahedge January Index Flash Update which reveals that for 2017 as a whole, hedge funds were up 8.24 per cent, while underlying markets as represented by the MSCI World Index returned 17.55 per cent over the same period.
Equity long-biased hedge funds have been the star performers for 2017 returning 16.78 per cent, whilst long volatility and tail risk funds
Alternative investments managers are enjoying continued interest from investors but risk losing out from future flows, warns SEI (NASDAQ: SEIC) in its latest pair of research reports.
Superior returns, trusted investment teams, and firm size have traditionally served as the key differentiators in the alternative investments world, but changes in the industry have profound implications for how alternative managers run their businesses and the infrastructure required to support their investment acumen.
Released today and based on a survey of 70 alternatives investors, “How to Meet Operational Challenges while Pursuing Opportunities in Alternative Investing” illustrates the alignments and disconnects between
Aspect Capital, one of Europe’s leading CTAs, will be discussing short-term trading at the Amsterdam Investor Forum on 6 March 2018. Dr Constantin Filitti will feature on the panel, along with Nicolas Mirjolet, CIO, Tolomeo Capital.
The Amsterdam Investor Forum is a leading forum for institutional investors and alternative investment managers in the EMEA region.
Gary John-Baptiste (pictured), Sales Director, Prime at ABN AMRO says: “We are delighted to welcome Aspect Capital as one of our experts on the short term trading for alpha generation focus session. We share Aspect’s enthusiasm on the topic and look forward to receiving
By Olivia Munro – As the deadline to the GDPR steadily approaches, it is important to start preparing for the regulation if you haven’t already. In case you aren’t aware, the EU took a major step to protect their citizens’ personal data and privacy rights by instating the EU Greater Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is scheduled to go into effect on 25 May, 2018. However, just because the GDPR is an EU regulation, it doesn’t mean that US based firms are exempt.
Any firm, even those based in the US, that monitors the behavior of EU citizens must comply. This means
