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The LuxHedge Global UCITS Index fell by 1.64 per cent during August, one of the worst monthly performances experienced in years. This strong decline reflects the catastrophic trend exhibited by the global markets.
The equity markets massively suffered with -9.10 per cent in Europe, -6.02 per cent in the United States (US), -9.01 per cent in Emerging Countries and -6.55 per cent for the MSCI World Index.
“Under these circumstances, we gave a careful look at the long/short equity strategies, assessing if the managers could float in these very troubled waters,” says the LuxHedge Research Team. “The answer is
- 09/09/2015
BP Capital Fund Advisors (BP Capital TwinLine) has selected Ultimus Fund Solutions’s Advisor Solutions Group to provide a full suite of middle-office services for the firm’s institutional BP Capital TwinLine Separately Managed Accounts.
By leveraging Ultimus’ depth of operational knowledge and industry-leading technology, the BP Capital TwinLine team will be able to focus on its core business functions while diversifying its product offering. BP Capital TwinLine is the latest firm to join the growing middle office outsourcing trend, as advisors look to gain efficiencies and access expertise without tying up critical internal resources or licensing and operating expensive technologies.
- 09/09/2015
Bloomberg STP Solutions and Traiana have developed a straight-through processing infrastructure to further streamline the workflow of foreign exchange (FX) options. The solution integrates Traiana's Harmony messaging network with Bloomberg's trade processing tools.
"As the FX market reaches greater levels of automation, FX options, with their complex instrument structures and numerous post-execution events, continue to involve manual processes which present operational risks and challenges to market participants," says Ben Macdonald (pictured), Bloomberg's Global Head of Product. "We believe that providing a decentralised solution to both buy and sell side participants offers them the flexibility needed for broad market coverage and
- 08/09/2015
BCS Global Markets (BCS), the international arm of BCS Financial Group, has appointed Adam Wood to the position of Director in the Prime Brokerage Sales team in London.
In his role, Wood will work to maintain and establish strong relationships with high frequency traders, proprietary trading firms specialising in arbitrage and major hedge funds across accounts in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe and United States.
Prior to joining BCS, Wood worked as a relationship manager at ABN AMRO Clearing Bank, where he was responsible for business development and sales with buy-side and proprietary trading firms across global accounts. Prior
- 08/09/2015
Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and RepRisk have formed a strategic partnership allowing ISS to offer environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) solutions from RepRisk.
ISS will offer clients – including asset owners, investment managers, hedge funds, broker-dealers, and custodian banks – access to RepRisk’s Asset Management Platform, Data Feed, and Monitoring Report offerings. Using the platform, clients can better manage reputational, compliance, and investment risks related to ESG issues. As a screening tool, the platform can also be used to dynamically monitor portfolio companies’ activities for purposes of investment analysis, engagement, or exclusion. In addition, customisable data feeds can be
- 08/09/2015
Using information from the recently released Preqin Investor Outlook: Alternative Assets H2 2015, Preqin explores institutional investors’ objectives, satisfaction with returns and activity within the real estate asset class in this extract from Preqin Real Estate Spotlight.
Investor objectives for real estate
A diverse range of institutional investors choose to invest in the real estate asset class, each with their own set of objectives. Fig 1 shows that there are a multitude of reasons that surveyed investors place above returns as their main motivation. The diversification benefits of real estate were cited by the largest proportion of respondents,
- 08/09/2015
Derek Adler (pictured), a founder member and director of International Financial Administration Group Ltd (ifina), responds to a recent Hedgeweek article about a new SuMi TRUST whitepaper…
Having worked in the City of London from the mid 1970s until the late 1990s as an asset manager and for the last 18 years as a fund administrator, I found myself agreeing with much of what was written in the article – Firm says prime brokers and fund administrators pose greatest challenge to hedge fund businesses. However there are some points that must be expanded upon and clarified and therefore I decided to write this
- 08/09/2015
At the turn of the month, hedge funds rebounded as market conditions improved. The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up 0.4 per cent last week, following a 3.3 per cent drawdown in August. Year to date, hedge funds have demonstrated their ability to protect portfolios, returning -0.3 per cent whilst the MSCI World and JPM Global Aggregate Bond Index were down 7 per cent and 2.3 per cent respectively. On a risk-adjusted basis, the outperformance of hedge funds is impressive and marks a critical change of paradigm.
- 07/09/2015
Exchange turnover in investment products and leverage products decreased slightly in the second quarter of 2015 on Europe’s financial markets. Compared with the first three months of the year, volume was down marginally by 2 per cent to EUR 38.6 billion. However, there was a 46 per cent increase year on year.
This is one of the outcomes of an analysis by Derivative Partners Research AG of the latest market data collected by the European Structured Investment Products Association (EUSIPA) from its members.
The members of EUSIPA include: Zertifikate Forum Austria (ZFA), Association Française des Produits Dérivés de Bourse (afpdb), Deutscher Derivate
- 07/09/2015
Bedell Trust has expanded its international presence through the acquisition of a majority stake in Singapore Trust Company Pte Ltd (STC), a fiduciary and corporate services business in Singapore.
STC which was incorporated in 1996, was the first trust company in Singapore to be licensed under the Trust Companies Act in 2006. he company has grown significantly under the guidance of its Chairman, Robert Meggy and Managing Director, Rudy Tan. Following the acquisition, Rudy Tan will remain as Managing Director and be supported by the existing team of highly experienced professionals. Robert Meggy will retire after a long and accomplished
- 07/09/2015
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