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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
The Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) is delighted to announce that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission on 13 July 2015.
Under the terms of the MoU, the commissions agree to assist each other in order to ensure stakeholder and public protection and to develop market and financial integrity.
Samantha Barrass (pictured), GFSC CEO, says: “The signing of this MoU is significant for us. It serves to enhance our commitment to establish international relationships with other supervisory organisations, in order to support and strengthen our regulatory work”.
The
- 07/09/2015
ICAP plc has made a strategic investment in Abide Financial, a market-leading global regulatory reporting specialist. The investment will enable Abide Financial to continue to expand its global footprint and capabilities.
Increased scrutiny of the financial services industry has created significant opportunities for specialist firms to help companies keep up with new regulatory demands. Since it was established in 2011, Abide Financial has emerged as a market leader in the provision of regulatory reporting technology, ensuring market participants are compliant with evolving reporting obligations. The company acts as a reporting hub for EMIR, Approved Reporting Mechanism (ARM) for MiFID and
- 07/09/2015
- 07/09/2015
Treasury reforms, financial innovation and growing demand is driving interest in Australia’s hedge fund industry, according to the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund industry association.
Currently managing AUD96.9 billion (US$67 billion) in assets, according to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), this renewed interest is set to drive Australia’s hedge fund industry through the AUD100 billion mark, and continue strong growth that saw assets managed by hedge funds increase more than 45 per cent from 2012 to 2014. ASIC data also showed that in 2014, Australia’s largest hedge funds reported average returns of 15.6 per
- 07/09/2015
Veteran hedge fund of funds’ manager Dixon Boardman, CEO and Founder of Optima Fund Management, has commented on how hedge funds have performed in the recent volatile market.
He says: “First, the recent downdraft in equities is a long-overdue correction that helps restore the health of markets. It is noteworthy that hedge funds have mitigated to a large extent the downside versus unhedged portfolios in this correction. Second, it creates attractive opportunities for experienced hedge fund managers who are able to identify stocks with solid fundamentals that are the ‘winners’ on the long side, and those that are overvalued and
- 07/09/2015
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