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Sciens Alternative Investments and PVE Capital have launched the PVE European Distressed Fund I, a closed ended fund that has invested in a portfolio of Italian Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) with a gross book value of EUR408m.
The portfolio of NPLs primarily comprise secured loans backed by Italian real estate.
PVE Capital is the originator of this deal, as well as being the asset manager of the NPL portfolio. PVE Capital is a European credit manager which has significant investment expertise in credit assets, ranging from traditional fundamental credit to the most esoteric structured credit. As of April 2015, PVE Capital
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Eze Castle Integration, a provider of IT solutions and private cloud services to hedge funds, is to host a three-part webinar series in April focused on cloud computing for investment management firms.
The series, Cloud Perspectives: How to Impress Investors, Security Pros & CXOs, will feature expert speakers across three events and discuss the impact of cloud services on hedge funds and investment firms in today’s changing environment.
The webinar comes at a time when the company is seeing increased adoption of private cloud services but also widespread inquiries from investors and business executives regarding the benefits and considerations of cloud
- 14/04/2015
Muzinich & Co, an institutional asset management firm specialising in corporate credit, has appointed a business development manager to cover the north of England and Scotland.
In a newly created role, Philip Raby will be responsible for developing relationships with investors as well as looking after existing Muzinich clients.
Raby was previously at Martin Currie, where he was UK sales and client services manager. Previous positions include relationship management and business development roles with J O Hambro Capital Management and Aegon Asset Management, spending six years with each. He has also held sales and investment roles with Scottish Equitable
- 14/04/2015
Following a strong Q1, hedge funds have kept performing as we move to the next quarter. The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index is up 0.4% over the week with all but one strategy closing the week positive. A disappointing job report for the month of March in the US was the main event of a rather quiet start to April.
- 13/04/2015
Aquis Exchange is introducing a new order type – Market at Close (MaC) – that allows its Members to enter orders for matching on the Aquis Exchange platform at the closing price of the market-of-listing end-of-day auction.
This initiative is supported by a number of key asset management and brokerage firms.
MaC meets pre- and post-trade transparency requirements and, crucially, will not be subject to MiFID II restrictions for the use of reference price waivers. MaC has received approval from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority. It will be offered at no additional cost to Aquis Exchange Members that are top-tier
- 13/04/2015
SEI has launched SEI Firm Compliance, a new global regulatory management framework that equips investment organisations to oversee and orchestrate compliance functions firm-wide, across investment products and regulatory jurisdictions.
SEI’s Investment Manager Services (IMS) division developed the compliance framework as an add-on to the customised global operating platform it provides to its investment manager clients.
SEI’s offering takes a new approach in that it centralises an investment firm’s internal and outsourced compliance functions in a single management framework tailored to the user’s mix of business activities. SEI has incorporated the compliance framework into the Manager Dashboard of SEI’s global
- 13/04/2015
Heptagon Capital has successfully completed the conversion of the Helicon Fund from an equity-hedge product to a global long-only equity by removing the index futures hedging overlay. The change is in response to client demand
Launched as the second product on Heptagon’s Irish UCITS platform in April 2011, the Helicon Fund now has an established four-year track record. The Fund has been managed in-house by two seasoned professionals with over thirty years of combined market experience in equities. Helicon’s focus has been on investing in a concentrated portfolio of high-quality equities with exposure to attractive long-term themes. These include growth
- 13/04/2015
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has launched a new family of Global Inflation-Linked Sovereign Indices to effectively measure inflation-linked country debt within these classifications.
The launch of the S&P Global Sovereign Inflation-Linked Bond Indices is part of S&P DJI’s global initiative to expand its fixed income index offerings globally across more bond types.
The S&P Global Sovereign Inflation-Linked Bond Indices are broad, comprehensive, market value-weighted indices that seek to measure the performance of the inflation-linked securities market. The Indices are comprised of a universe of fixed rate, locally denominated inflation-linked sovereign debt publicly issued by governments in their domestic
- 13/04/2015
Oil – According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) US oil production increased by 1.2m barrels per day last year to 8.7m barrels per day: the biggest annual change in US field production of crude oil in over a century. This supply glut caused crude oil prices to drop off a precipice last year, falling from USD107 per barrel in June to USD45 per barrel in March this year. Despite this, production has continued unabated.
On 25 March 2015, for example, the EIA announced that US crude production had risen to 9.42m barrels per day: the highest level since
- 13/04/2015
The last six months have been turbulent times for crude oil. On 17 March, WTI futures fell to USD42.63 – their lowest level since March 2009 – whilst Brent crude futures moved close to a six-year low of USD53 a barrel as the market reacted to the potential of Iran raising production on the back of sanctions being lifted.
On the fundamental side, steady supply growth has led to a glut of inventories in the US, reaching 444.4 million barrels according to the US Energy Information Administration; the highest level since 1982. Many were expecting last year that OPEC would
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