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DMS Governance (DMS) has launched its US Regulatory Compliance services, designed to support US-based investment advisers in improving the quality and increasing the ease of compliance with their regulatory responsibilities.
The DMS’ US Regulatory Compliance services offers expert compliance staff and state-of-the-art technology to investment advisers of hedge and private equity funds, registered mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, and other alternative investment products. DMS is recognised globally for its successful, long-term track record and expertise in governance, risk, and compliance within the investment fund industry.
Wade Boylan, Leader, US Regulatory Compliance Services, says: “Our mission is to partner with US
Thomson Reuters has launched ESG Peer View on its flagship desktop product Eikon, a significant enhancement of its ESG data capabilities that is designed to facilitate more customisable and detailed analysis for socially responsible investing (SRI) and risk analysis.
ESG Peer View enables investment professionals to compare a set of companies or industries by individual or sets of ESG data points, thus allowing for comparative analysis relative to peers. Peer analysis can be done by industry, geography, market capitalisation, or a combination of these. By being able to evaluate a company relative to its peers, financial professionals may gain a deeper
By Stuarts Walker Hersant Humphries – The Anti-Money Laundering Regulations, 2017 (the “Regulations”) were brought into force on 2 October 2017 and replaced the Money Laundering Regulations (2015 Revision) (the “Former Regulations”).
German-based technology provider DIGITEC has released a successor product for its D3 platform, which provides pricing solutions for FX and MM trading businesses.
DIGITEC has been working closely with major banks globally to define needs and requirements for the D3 evolution. After several years of product development with the challenging objective to improve the user interface and performance, the new D3 is now ready for operation globally.
“Our new D3 application has been built from scratch and combines the best of both worlds; market know-how and software expertise. We cumulate the know-how of not just one bank, but many
Harvest Capital Strategies, the asset management subsidiary of investment banking and alternative asset management firm JMP Group, has made a minority investment in Astor Investment Management, a Chicago-based registered investment advisor with USD1.9 billion of assets under management.
Astor’s approach to asset allocation is driven by macroeconomic theory, utilising a broad range of asset classes with low correlation to the broader market. The firm offers its products through a variety of channels, including mutual funds, separately managed accounts and universal managed accounts.
“We are very optimistic about our long-term partnership with the team at Astor,” says KC Lynch, president
A survey of RIAs with assets under management of USD500 million or more by alternative investment solutions provider PPB Capital Partners has found that holdings of alternative investments in client portfolios are likely to increase over the next 12 months.
The firm conducted the survey to gain clarity on the direction of alternatives among RIAs, and to provide insights to RIAs for whom alternative investments are an emerging part of their business.
Some 45 per cent of survey respondents said they expect the alternative investment asset allocation in clients’ portfolios to increase, while 47 per cent said they expect
Key findings from Swiss exchange SIX’s survey of Traders include the fact that 88 per cent of traders have seen a shift from active towards passive investing and 72 per cent expect the level of passive investing to rise further next year.
The exchange says that cost pressures and increased regulation continue to fuel the rise of passive investing. More than 85 per cent of traders expect a rise in passive investing could provoke change in global markets, but only 40 per cent see this development as positive for their companies.
Regulation, such as MiFID II, will be by far
Horizon Software (Horizon), a provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, is to help develop Warrant market expertise within the Vietnam market.
A key challenge was to provide business knowledge of the Covered Warrants issuing and market making business to help stimulate and support market development in Vietnam.
Horizon has provided a series of workshop presentations, which included two Hong Kong-based Warrants experts, to address Vietnamese audiences. Topics covered included market-making, Warrants marketing strategies, implementation and operational activities, IT solutions, trading operations and risk management. The workshops gave the speakers the chance to outline Horizon’s new Covered Warrant
Treasury operations due diligence is expanding well beyond the historical focus on cash controls, and now includes a more evolved and optimised manager’s treasury function. This is not only essential to minimising counterparty risk, but also key to reducing costs and adding incremental yield.
That’s according to a new white paper from Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management solutions.
The paper says that institutional investors are continuing their allocations to alternative investments at a rapid pace, with record inflows reported. This trend is likely to continue into 2018, with strong allocations to hedge funds, private equity, and
Last month, Hedgeweek, in partnership with Intralinks, hosted a breakfast briefing in London to present the findings of a global LP survey that sought to determine investor sentiment towards GPs.
More than 140 LPs responded to the survey, of whom approximately 52 per cent were based in North America, 31 per cent in Europe and 15 per cent in Asia Pacific. Nearly one quarter (22 per cent) were public pension plans, 15 per cent were consultants and 13 per cent were either endowments or family offices.
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The breakfast briefing took the form a fireside discussion between James Williams,
