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Boris Collardi has quit his role as CEO of Julius Baer Group to join Pictet Group.
Collardi (pictured), who is expected to join Pictet’s board of Partners by mid-2018 at the latest, will be jointly responsible for the firm’s global wealth management business, alongside Rémy Best, the managing Partner who has had sole charge of this division since December 2014.
Nicolas Pictet, senior managing Partner of Pictet, says: “We are delighted to be able to appoint as a Partner someone of Boris Collardi’s calibre and reputation in the industry, especially at a time when the prospects for wealth and
Graham Bishop, Investment Director at Heartwood Investment Management comments on the latest downbeat growth forecasts for the UK economy…
Chancellor Hammond’s latest budget was generally unexciting and, arguably aimed at placating Westminster. Importantly, though, the budget marked a step away from austerity and did not deliver the usual ‘bad news’ coming from a newly-elected government. In this respect, the current government has little room for manoeuvre given its razor thin majority.
Over the next five years, the UK economy can expect to see an overall net loosening of GBP25 billion. The biggest fiscal stimulus will come in 2019/2020,
Brexit has brought about uncertain times for the investment industry. Since the recent announcements by Theresa May to move away from EU regulation, this has spouted further debate and uncertainty for asset managers, including whether to keep their core business in London, or move to a more central European hub.
As negotiations continue around the fate of the once united European investment industry post Brexit, companies are hedging their bets and starting the ball rolling on their future plans, and the outcome is not looking good for the current central financial hub, London. As companies fear less access to their
Mediobanca is to acquire a 69 per cent interest in RAM Active Investments (RAM AI), a Switzerland-based systematic investment manager.
RAM AI offers a range of actively managed and alternative systematic fundamental equity and tactical fixed-income funds to a wide array of institutional and professional investors. As of 31 October 2017, RAM AI had AuM of CHF4.9 billion across 14 funds.
RAM AI will maintain its organisational and operational independence, but the transaction will provide the firm with a reinforced institutional framework, a long-term seeding commitment to funds managed by the Company that will help foster innovation and research,
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
