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By Mary Beth Hamilton – There has been discussion for years about whether public or private cloud platforms were more suitable to financial and investment management firms. And that debate continues, but with the addition of a new player – the hybrid cloud.
While the public cloud receives praise for its flexibility and potential cost savings and the private cloud for its robust security and reliable performance, the hybrid iteration essentially marries these features to create a compelling package for firms who don’t fit naturally into the previous two categories.
Take a closer look at how public, private and hybrid
The series of acquisitions that have taken place since Cowen Inc acquired Concept Capital Markets, LLC – which took place exactly two years ago – have been numerous and have led Cowen’s prime services unit to become regarded as a genuine alternative to bulge-bracket prime brokers.
“We can meet the needs of managers, large and small, through the capabilities we’ve invested in,” says Jack Seibald (pictured), Global Co-Head of Cowen Prime Services LLC, the prime services affiliate at Cowen. “When Concept Capital was acquired by Cowen, the principal reason we thought it would be beneficial was the common operating philosophy
Iron Cove Partners (ICP), a leading full-service national insurance brokerage firm serving the financial services industry, is the winner of Best North American Insurance Provider at this year’s Hedgeweek US Awards.
Each winner of the prestigious award is determined by Hedgeweek readers, consisting of investors, managers, and industry professionals, who cast their ballots to determine which firms are the best of the best in their respective categories, making this a truly peer-reviewed accolade.
“Winning the US award is the icing on the cake for our FI team,” says Louis D’Agostino, Principal of Financial Services at Iron Cove Partners. “After winning
Hathersage Capital Management LLC is a discretionary global macro investment manager founded in 1991. The firm is a foreign exchange specialist, expressing its global macro views strictly in G10 currencies, using interbank spot, forwards and vanilla options.
Hedgeweek readership has voted Hathersage Capital Management’s Citi G10 Macro Access Strategy as the Best Macro Hedge Fund at the 2017 Hedgeweek US Awards. Hathersage is the only fund manager to have won two years in a row on this occasion.
The portfolio management team at Hathersage has a wealth of experience in the foreign exchange markets. Members of the team have been managing
Being voted Best North American Cloud Services Provider by Hedgeweek readers is a heavy weight to carry, but it hasn’t stopped Eze Castle Integration from continuing to drive growth and innovation across the industry.
In fact, since winning this same award in Hedgeweek’s Global Awards program earlier in 2017, Eze Castle Integration has added to its cloud portfolio – with the addition of Eze Hybrid Cloud.
The hybrid iteration of its cloud platform draws from both the firm’s private cloud infrastructure (email and endpoint security, file auditing and sharing, multi-factor authentication and more) and Microsoft’s cloud (Exchange, OneDrive, Customer Lockbox,
The Duff & Phelps’ cybersecurity services practice takes a leading role in helping financial services companies implement best practices to prepare for, respond to and, if necessary, recover from a cybersecurity attack.
The practice is growing rapidly as Investors and regulatory concerns are top of mind for alternative investment managers. Jason Elmer, Managing Director, comments: “We are helping clients to identify their risks, and put in place cybersecurity controls and practices to help them achieve compliance with regulation, and to address the heightened scrutiny they are subject to from investors. Investors are very much making cybersecurity a top priority.
“At
BCK Capital Management was established in December 2015 and operates a global special situations fund – BCK Capital Master Fund Ltd – which comprises two complementary strategies: one catalyst-driven, the other merger arbitrage.
BCK Capital runs a tightly hedged, market neutral strategy. Since inception, the fund has generated positive gross performance in every month where the S&P 500 Index declined.
Overseeing the investment team as CIO and the founder of BCK Capital is Wayne Yu, who lifted out of Societe Generale’s proprietary trading desk with fellow co-founders Markus Homor, Steven Heller and Peter Brady, who were also joined at inception by
Maitland is one of the industry’s largest independent hedge fund administrators with USD250 billion in AuA and more than 1,400 employees across 18 offices globally across 13 jurisdictions. Maitland is more than a fund administrator. It is a global advisory group, with its roots as an innovative law firm founded in Luxembourg in 1976 offering cross-border structuring solutions to corporates and some of the world’s wealthiest families.
Benjamin Reid is Senior Manager – Business Development & Client Management (LatAm), overseeing Maitland’s expansion efforts into the Latin American market; an exciting region for growth, in particular Brazil.
“We’ve only been operating
“We’ve been busy in our core operations providing professional independent governance services to the alternative investment funds community. This has involved providing holistic solutions to our clients across multiple different business lines,” comments Daniel Forbes pictured), Executive Director and head of DMS in New York.
Historically DMS solely provided professional independent directorship services, registered office services and board support services. These were, and remain, its three core services. However, post-financial crisis, DMS looked at the market and considered where its clients would most need its help in 10 years’ time. That has led DMS to really expand its suite of
Much has changed in the ’40 Act space over the last five years or more. Far from being the preserve of traditional US mutual funds, as you move down the liquidity curve there are structuring opportunities for registered alternative products like closed-end interval funds, as well as multi-factor ETFs.
“Some managers want to offer highly liquid strategies – maybe long/short equity or market neutral strategies, unconstrained fixed income, managed futures strategies, etc – and we are seeing continued product development in that area. This fits nicely on our series trust platform for traditional ’40 act mutual funds,” explains Tony Fischer,
