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Aberdeen Asset Management has struck a deal with Advance Emerging Capital Ltd (AEC) whereby Aberdeen will acquire 100 per cent ownership of the London-based investment company. AEC focuses on global emerging and frontier market equities.
AEC is a London based specialist investment manager with nearly two decades of experience managing portfolios of primarily closed end, but also open end, fund-of-fund vehicles. As of 30 June 2015, the company managed GBP409 million across a range of investment funds. The two largest vehicles that the team manages are Advance Developing Markets Fund Limited and Advance Frontier Markets Fund Limited, both of which are
- 15/09/2015
- 15/09/2015
John Valentini has joined the Fiera Capital global team as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer.
The firm has also promoted Sylvain Roy to President and Chief Operating Officer of it’s Canadian division, effective 1 October, 2015. Both will be reporting directly to Sylvain Brosseau, Fiera Capital’s global President and Chief Operating Officer.
“As Fiera Capital continues to pursue its growth plans in Canada and the US, our organisational structure has been adapted to best support our growing and geographically diverse operations. We are pleased to be able to count on seasoned leaders with extensive industry and market know-how
- 15/09/2015
On 16-17 September the Fed will meet to decide whether or not to hike rates for the first time since 2006. The set of economic projections will reveal critical information about the Fed thinking. The market expects a dovish stance. The probability of a rate hike, based on Fed fund futures, is as low as 28 per cent. The probability is close to 40 per cent for the end-October meeting and reaches 59 per cent for December.
- 15/09/2015
AltX has appointed Roy Singh (pictured) as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective immediately.
“Roy’s extensive experience in data science, distributed systems, natural language processing and machine learning will catapult our product capabilities and offerings to new heights,” says Sam Hocking, Founder and CEO of AltX. “Roy’s deep technical knowledge, coupled with his understanding of quantitative finance, is precisely the expertise that AltX needs to build on its position as the next-generation intelligence platform for the alternative investment market.”
Hocking has a proven track record in data science, distributed systems, natural language processing, machine learning and quantitative finance. Prior to
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- 15/09/2015
Funds with more than USD1 billion in AUM grew at an average of 135 per cent since the global financial crisis, while smaller funds only increased 15 per cent over that same five-year period.
What is causing bigger funds to continue getting bigger and receive the lion’s share of institutional allocations? How does your firm compete in this unique market dynamic?
Broadridge’s new whitepaper, Hedge Funds and Their Data: Investing in Operational Excellence and Attracting New Capital, authored by Tim Versteeg (pictured), explores how the changes in the industry landscape since the global financial crisis forced hedge funds
- 15/09/2015
Here, we take a detailed look at the infrastructure industry in Australia, including a breakdown of Australia-based investors’ by preferred route to market, source of infrastructure allocation and assets under management.
Read the full factsheet here, featuring charts and tables showcasing the latest Preqin data on the Australian infrastructure market.
- 14/09/2015
SEI has introduced a new global regulatory risk and compliance platform that centralises handling of an investment firm’s regulatory and compliance functions across investment vehicles, products, and jurisdictions around the globe.
SEI’s Investment Manager Services (IMS) division developed the suite to help its diverse investment manager clients rein in the escalating costs and risks resulting from the industry’s fast-rising tide of regulations.
“For years, investment managers have dealt with regulatory compliance in a reactive and siloed way, focusing on one product type, regulator, or regulatory regime at a time. But that approach is inefficient and error-prone, poses risks of non-compliance,
- 14/09/2015
Vendor management has become a key component of enterprise risk management (ERM) for today’s budding new hedge fund managers. This was not necessarily the case a couple of years ago, but with the introduction of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) the landscape has changed dramatically.
Now, start-up managers, keen to get their strategies up and running without necessarily becoming registered AIFMs from day one and reduce initial costs, are turning to fund platforms.
The problem is, there is such a plethora of platforms to choose from. They include both regulated umbrella platforms that allow start-ups to avail of
- 14/09/2015
BlackRock has launched a new event-driven fund in Europe to meet growing investor demand for liquid alternative investments, and to take advantage of an attractive environment for company transactions and other corporate actions.
The BlackRock Strategic Funds (BSF) Global Event Driven Fund (the Fund) is the firm’s first UCITS-compliant event-driven fund in Europe and adds to BlackRock’s existing range of liquid alternative UCITS funds on the BSF platform. The Fund arrives at a time when increased market volatility and challenging returns from traditional equities and bonds are encouraging investors to seek alternative, uncorrelated returns.
Sheryl Needham, Managing Director, BlackRock
- 14/09/2015
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for August 2015 measured -1.02 per cent. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.64 per cent in September.
"SS&C GlobeOp's Capital Movement Index for September 2015 showed a gain of 0.64 per cent, very much in line with August's 0.71 per cent gain as well as the 0.55 per cent reported a year ago for September of 2014," says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. "Comparisons for both the inflow and outflow components of the index were also
- 14/09/2015
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