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Muzinich & Co has appointed Jamie Cane as credit analyst. Cane joins the firm’s investment team in London and will focus on identifying credit opportunities within the growing European high yield market.
Cane joined Muzinich & Co from Babson Capital where he spent more than three years focusing on High Yield Bonds and Leveraged Loans across a range of sectors and geographies. Prior to that he worked at Anglo Irish Bank, primarily in restructuring. He holds a First Class Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Manchester and is a CFA Charterholder.
Jamie joins Muzinich’s deep analyst team of
- 04/03/2015
Mitsubishi UFJ Fund Services (Mitsubishi UFJ) has expanded its middle office services in response to the competitive and regulatory pressures faced by clients.
Mitsubishi UFJ’s middle office services enable fund managers to outsource their middle office operations, leveraging Mitsubishi UFJ’s expertise and in turn freeing up in-house resources allowing them to stay focused on their primary investment objectives.
Mitsubishi UFJ’s continued investment into middle office services highlights the Bank’s commitment to providing a robust end-to-end fund administration solution to the investment industry.
The middle office technology is incorporated within the firm’s wider custody and fund accounting systems, and will
- 04/03/2015
SYZ Asset Management’s OYSTER – European Corporate Bonds EUR fund has been ranked best fund in the UK over three years and ten years by Lipper in the “Bond Euro – Corporates” category.
OYSTER – European Corporate Bonds EUR is a UK-registered sub-fund of the OYSTER SICAV which is a Luxembourg domiciled UCITS managed by SYZ Asset Management (Luxembourg) SA. This accolade underlines the breadth of winning strategies offered by SYZ Asset Management, which is already well-known for its European equities franchise. Indeed, in the past, Absolute Return and Dynamic Allocation funds managed by SYZ Asset Management have received several
- 04/03/2015
Maitland, the global advisory and fund services firm, has been voted Best European Hedge Fund Administrator at the Hedgeweek Awards for 2015, held in London last week.
Maitland offers independent third-party fund administration globally across all fund types and investment styles, with a focus on institutional asset managers, pension funds and hedge & private equity funds. It acts as an integrator of best of breed technology to provide automated front, middle and back-office administration services to clients. Through a unique combination of fund, legal and corporate services, Maitland is able to devise solutions such as its comprehensive FATCA services and
- 04/03/2015
Prescient Fund Services, the fund administration business in the Prescient Group, has added global execution services to its offering.
Craig Mockford, Head of Prescient Fund Services, says: “Our global execution services include a single buy-side point of contact with brokers for access to global equities, derivatives, and foreign exchange markets.
“By handing over the dealing function, fund managers can focus on analysis.”
Established in 2010, Prescient Fund Services (PFS) is wholly-owned by JSE-listed Prescient Limited and offers specialist outsourced administration services to asset managers, multi-managers and other institutional investors. Services include segregated portfolio administration, unitisation, daily pricing and
- 04/03/2015
LCH.Clearnet’s SwapClear service will be launching new interest rate portfolio margining capabilities for its members and their clients around the world.
Under the new offering, market participants using SwapClear, the largest interest rate derivatives liquidity pool, and LCH.Clearnet's listed rates service will be able to maximise their margin offsets between OTC and listed interest rate derivatives, allowing them to more efficiently manage their collateral obligations.
Portfolio margining will be available on an open access basis, to regulated venues that list suitable interest rate derivatives. The initiative is expected to go-live within 12 months, subject to regulatory approval.
Daniel Maguire, Global
- 04/03/2015
Hedge fund capital invested in emerging markets fell at the end of 2014 from the record level established in Q3 on a combination of performance losses and investor outflows concentrated in funds with exposure to Russia.
The HFRI EM: Russia/Eastern Europe Index declined -18.6 per cent in 4Q14 bringing the 2014 full year loss to -26.5 percent, making 2014 the third worst calendar year decline for the Index. Hedge fund capital invested in Emerging Markets declined by USD1.4 billion in the fourth quarter to conclude 2014 at USD183.8 billion, according to the latest HFR Emerging Markets Hedge Fund Industry Report.
- 04/03/2015
The February 2015 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR8,247 million (+24% compared to February 2014).
The average daily volumes on equity index derivatives were down at 225,995 contracts (-15% compared with February 2014), and the average daily volumes on individual equity derivatives were down at 264,767 contracts (-8% compared to February 2014).
Activity on commodity derivatives remained strong in February with an average daily volume of 52,474 contracts traded, up 18% when compared to February 2014.
Euronext had nine new listings in February that altogether raised more than EUR2 billion. In addition EUR1,211
- 04/03/2015
Multi-strategy hedge fund manager Deimos Asset Management has launched a new hedge fund management business with a strategic investment from Ares Management.
Deimos was formed through a management buyout of Guggenheim Global Trading, LLC, the former multi-manager, multi-strategy hedge fund platform of Guggenheim Partners. Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (Teachers) is an anchor investor in Deimos’ multi-strategy product through a managed account platform.
Deimos is led by Patrick Hughes and Loren Katzovitz, former co-heads of Guggenheim Global Trading, and Mark Standish, a former Group Executive of Royal Bank of Canada and Co-CEO of RBC Capital Markets, as Managing Partners. Deimos is
- 04/03/2015
The Chicago Board Options Exchange has added five new officers to its management team: Stephanie Klein, Chief Marketing Officer; Jennifer Lamie, Chief Regulatory Advisor; Stephanie Marrin Lara, Deputy Chief Regulatory Officer; Jordan Naylor, Vice President, Systems Development; and Steve Sinclair, Vice President, Systems Development.
As Chief Marketing Officer, Klein will build a holistic brand marketing strategy for the company to educate and engage a broadening global customer base around CBOE's position as the premier destination for options and volatility trading resources. She will utilise the full spectrum of traditional and innovative marketing channels, including print, digital, mobile and social media,
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