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The Institute of Trading and Portfolio Management (ITPM) has appointed hedge fund manager and proprietary trader Ross Williams as a Senior Trading Mentor, covering the Asia Pacific region.
Ross Williams (pictured), is a professional trader/hedge fund portfolio manager. He started his career in 1998 in London at CIBC World Markets in Fixed Income, trading Derivatives and Credit products. He then moved to work for Bear Stearns on their Proprietary Trading Desk from 2001-2006 and was promoted to Managing Director in 2005.
He cashed out at Bear Stearns and joined Hedge Fund (Peloton Partners) in 2006 with other partners from
Aquila Capital is to evolve the investment process of its long-only multi-asset investment strategy to take into account the latest developments in quantitative finance and artificial intelligence.
To reflect these developments, the AC Risk Parity Fund has been renamed as the AC – Adaptive Diversification Fund (the ‘Fund’). The investment process includes an advanced range of indicators to measure market attractiveness, aiming to deliver stable returns largely independent of market cycles.
The Fund offers a dynamic approach to balancing risk, responding fast to increasingly challenging financial markets. It uses sophisticated quantitative techniques to continuously adjust exposure to a global
Triple Alpha, which is built on unique trading algorithms previously available only to hedge fund clients, is to launch an ICO and create a capital fund.
The company says that an algorithm for picking the best stocks combined with a unique market-neutral strategy will aim to provide investors with returns significantly higher than the market not only when the market is growing steadily, but also during financial crises.
Thanks to the use of an exchange-traded fund (ETF), investors around the world will be able to access Triple Alpha algorithms, regardless of the amount they are going to invest.
By George Ralph, RFA – I’ve written before about the ways in which hedge funds can gain much needed competitive edge in order to stand out in this crowded marketplace, and there are a few key areas where firms can excel and nudge ahead of the competition. Developing solutions to automate workflows is a key area for many firms, as bespoke, slick workflows can optimise operations at every stage of a trade.
Anything that improves the investor’s experience is a good thing and it is becoming more important than ever to provide first rate customer service. However, we work with
Sacha Bright, CEO of www.businessagent.com on the impact that today’s budget news will have on VCT & EIS investors and the alternative investment space…
Hammond’s budget today will be welcomed by the alternative investment community. More money to the British Business Bank is likely to feed through to the peer-to-peer (P2P) community and changes to EIS and VCT investments are about trying to encourage more direct investing in genuinely entrepreneurial companies which is what crowdfunding is all about.
It seems clear that the Government is targeting large sums of money invested in tax-vehicles, rather than growth company investment vehicles,
Blue Sky Alternative Investments’ hedge fund team has secured a new mandate for its flagship systematic global macro strategy, Dynamic Macro, via the Deutsche Bank platform, dbSelect.
Blue Sky, Australia’s only listed diversified alternative asset manager has AUD3.4 billion assets under management (AUM). The new mandate is from Equinox Funds, an innovator and leading provider in the alternative investments arena.
The Blue Sky Dynamic Macro strategy, trading since November 2007, aims to deliver a “crisis alpha” macro approach – protection for investors during periods of equity market stress, while avoiding the erosion of assets during recovery periods. This is
Hedge funds were up 1.28 per cent in October with 2017 year-to-date gains coming in at 6.99 per cent – roughly 77 per cent of fund managers are in positive territory year-to-date, while almost 32 per cent have posted double digit gains.
That’s according to the October 2017 Eurekahedge Report which reveals that total hedge fund assets grew by USD158.64 billion over the past ten months with USD85.4 billion attributed to investor inflows, while managers posted performance-based gains of USD73.2 billion. The industry’s total assets currently stand at USD2.38 trillion. Investors have been selective in their allocations across strategies with
Asset managers today are faced with having to deal with a plethora of liquidity regulations. Most of the liquidity-related concerns in respect of Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (CCAR) prescribed by the Federal Reserve Board, Solvency II, MiFID II – due to go live on 3 January 2018 – and liquidity coverage ratios under Basel III are essentially just rules from the regulator to adhere to.
This has required financial institutions to become more prescriptive in terms of improving their trade compliance frameworks and enhancing pre-trade analytics.
But the goalposts are moving.
Regulations such as the upcoming Investment Company Liquidity
Hedge funds recorded positive net asset inflows of USD19.2 billion in Q3 2017, bringing year-to-date net inflows to USD43.9 billion, according to Preqin.
Credit strategies and multi-strategy funds experienced the greatest net inflows of USD13.9 billion and USD13.3 billion, respectively, while equity strategies saw net inflows of USD1.3 billion in Q3, ending a run of six successive quarters of outflows. However, macro strategies, CTAs and relative value strategies all saw net outflows in Q3, and overall just 37 per cent of hedge funds saw net inflows in Q3, while 44 per cent saw net outflows.
The recent inflows combined
Toppan Vintage, an international financial printing, communications and technology company, has formed a global partnership with virtual data room (VDR) provider Intralinks.
The companies will jointly market and develop a suite of best-in-class services for deals, including the leading virtual data room, the industry’s only auto-pagination typesetting system and traditional financial printing services. Combining the best VDR and financial printing and communications solutions will enable dealmakers and issuers to be more productive than ever.
“We’re incredibly excited with the Intralinks’ alliance,” says Yeo Chee Tong, President & CEO of Toppan Leefung, Toppan Vintage’s parent company. “As one of the
