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VAM Funds (VAM) and Close Brothers Asset Management (CBAM) have teamed up to offer discretionary fund management (DFM) services to non-UK-based advisers and their clients.
Increasing uptake of discretionary fund management services comes as international advisers move away from self-selecting and managing investment portfolios on an ongoing basis for clients.
CBAM’s award-winning expertise is normally only available in the UK but will now be available in the international market exclusively through the VAM Discretionary Funds. This arrangement will see VAM bring three diversified multi-asset, risk-rated investment portfolios to international investors via a Luxembourg-domiciled UCITS IV fund structure. The funds’
- 02/07/2015
Alternative asset manager Duet Group has recruited Michel Danechi and Kalim Aziz as fund manager and research analyst respectively, from Armajaro. The pair will launch the Duet Emerging European UCITS Fund in July with approximately USD100 million.
Duet believes that recent events in Eastern Europe and the broader region have created a very attractive entry point for the firm’s investors.
Duet Emerging Europe will add to Duet Group's strong emerging market and commodities franchise. The EM range includes frontier, MENA and Africa funds as well as a range of frontier and emerging market private equity funds.
Danechi (pictured)
- 02/07/2015
Arabesque Partners, the London and Frankfurt-based asset management firm, has appointed Dr Robert G Eccles (pictured) as the company’s first Chairman with immediate effect.
Currently Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, Eccles arrives at Arabesque with a reputation as a global leader in transparent reporting and sustainable value creation through environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.
An award-winning academic and author of twelve books including ‘The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives and Materiality’, Eccles is the founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and a steering member of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC).
- 01/07/2015
Alternative investment manager Mariner Investment Group has appointed Dmitry Green as Chief Risk Officer (CRO). Green, who joins from Saba Capital where he was Managing Director and CRO has a strong track record managing investment risk from a number of blue chip alternative investment firms.
Green will be responsible for monitoring investment risk across all of Mariner's businesses. He will be a member of the firm's Investment and Risk committees, and will report directly to Mariner's operating committee.
"Dmitry brings extensive experience and an impressive history of managing investment risk for some of the industry's leading investment firms," says Bracebridge
- 01/07/2015
CV Holdings has entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement and an Investor Rights Agreement with an affiliate of Tricadia Capital Management in connection with the sale in a private placement of shares of newly created Non-Convertible Senior Preferred Stock shares of Common Stock of the Company.
The Tricadia investment is expected to replace the existing funding source for the Company's co-investment requirements on its NPL business. The Company is currently evaluating several other investment opportunities and, subject to Tricadia's approval, may decide to pursue one or more of them.
The Investor may purchase up to USD50.0 million of Preferred
- 01/07/2015
Lyxor Asset Management has cemented a reputation for its hedge fund solutions expertise, but as regulation and investor preferences change, the firm has evolved to offer multi-management solutions to support investors in fund selection, portfolio construction and infrastructure services.
Lyxor’s multi-manager solutions draw on the broad range of underlying investments on Lyxor’s investment platform including managed accounts, external hedge funds, ETFs and mutual funds.
The result is a range of commingled, dedicated and advisory solutions that spans the spectrum of liquidity, risk/return and strategy options to support global investors in meeting their idiosyncratic needs.
“There have been a number of
- 01/07/2015
How QuantConnect’s open source algorithmic trading platform is empowering quants to launch trading strategies at low cost…
Quantitative trading strategies, sometimes referred to as ‘black box’ strategies because of the complex algorithms that power them, have long been a source of mystery to investors. Run by proprietary trading desks, hedge funds and individual traders with PhDs in mathematics, quantitative finance and physics (aka “Quants”) these black box strategies have operated in rarefied air.
Until now that is.
New York-based QuantConnect is an open source, community-driven algorithmic trading platform. The firm has a simple vision: to bring quantitative trading to the
- 01/07/2015
- 01/07/2015
Brazilian asset manager, Vinci Partners, is to implement Eze Software’s order management system, Eze OMS, and execution management system, RealTick EMS, to streamline workflows across the investment lifecycle.
In partnership with Eze Software, Vinci Partners will build electronic connections to third-party execution providers (brokers) locally and globally and to their internal back-office system. The firm will leverage the OMS and EMS for portfolio analytics; modelling and pre-trade allocation; pre-, intra- and post-trade compliance; and multi-asset class trading, among other capabilities. Eze Software expects to bring Vinci Partners live on the OMS and EMS later this year.
“Vinci was looking for
- 01/07/2015
Best Credit Data (BCD), a provider of end of day bond pricing data, is partnering with Exchange Data International (EDI), to distribute BCD Municipal Bond End-of-Day Pricing data to EDI clients around the world.
BCD Municipal Bond Pricing provides end of day pricing for over 1.25 million US municipal bonds every day and roughly 8 years of daily history. The partnership gives EDI’s customers the opportunity to subscribe to BCD municipal bond pricing data. Customers will be able to access data fields including: price, yield, spread, multiple duration calculations, convexity, and OAS.
“We are excited to partner with EDI,” says
- 01/07/2015
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched a new centralised data provisioning service, DTCC Data Products, which include the expansion of DTCC’s ETF and Corporate Actions ISO 20022 data product offerings.
DTCC Data Products was created in response to growing client demand for more centralised on-demand DTCC data provisioning. The service aims to provide data that helps firms meet increasing regulatory demands, reduce risks, increase operational efficiencies, gain access to better market insight, lower operational costs, and bring greater transparency to their business operations. As envisioned, DTCC Data Products will directly source cross-asset-class data captured across DTCC’s clearing,
- 01/07/2015
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