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100 Women in Finance (100WF), formerly 100 Women in Hedge Funds, in association with Prince Harry’s patronage of 100 Women in Finance’s Philanthropic Initiatives, will partner with WellChild in 2017.
WellChild is the national charity working to ensure the best possible care and support for all seriously ill children, young people and their families across the UK.
100WF has a strong track record of supporting charities and has raised more than USD40 million (gross) for philanthropic causes in the areas of women’s and family health, education and mentoring.
The organisation is planning a number of fundraising and awareness
FINCAD, a provider of valuation and risk analytics for multi-asset derivatives and fixed income portfolios, has enhanced its F3 solution with advanced scenario analysis capabilities and a more flexible reporting framework.
The enhancements enable improved portfolio and risk management decisions, helping clients to achieve superior investment returns.
FINCAD F3 gives asset managers, hedge funds, pensions, life insurers and banks more accurate pricing, valuation and risk for pre-trade decision support and post-trade risk management.
F3’s most recent enhancements allow firms to optimise portfolio and risk management with improved scenario analysis. Clients can create and identify complex scenarios that have
Alternative data specialist Eagle Alpha has released a China Auto Insight (CAI) dataset designed for buy-side investment managers through an exclusive partnership with a Chinese financial automotive consultant.
The dataset will enable investment managers to capture unique insights into the Chinese auto sector.
“We are delighted to partner with a local consultant to provide unparalleled insights into China’s auto sector,” says Emmett Kilduff (pictured), founder and CEO of Eagle Alpha. “The CAI dataset will provide investment managers actionable insights on the Chinese auto industry, well in advance of industry participants reporting their results. This supports Eagle Alpha’s objective which is
Five of IndexIQ’s six IndexIQ Hedge Indices recorded a strong performance in December, led by a rise of 1.72 per cent in the IQ hedge Long/Short Index, as markets rallied heading into the end of the year.
The lone decliner for the period was the IQ Hedge Global Macro Index, down 0.11 per cent.
"The markets started to behave more rationally in December, as the surge following the election of Donald Trump gave way to a less emotional assessment of the prospects for interest rates and the economy over the coming year," says Salvatore Bruno (pictured), IndexIQ's chief investment
ACA Technology Solutions, a provider of investment management and regulatory technology solutions, has released ComplianceAlpha, a cloud-based platform designed to assist chief compliance officers with managing their compliance programme tasks and activities.
ComplianceAlpha is designed to help compliance teams automate processes and manage their day-to-day activities.
A secure cloud-based application organised by functional modules, ComplianceAlpha allows a CCO to meet the firm’s business needs from virtually anywhere.
This release includes the Compliance Management Platform and Marketing Review Solution modules. These modules, offered together or on a standalone basis, integrate risk assessment and regulatory requirements; compliance controls, policies, calendars,
Neuberger Berman has broadened its fixed income UCITS offering with the launch of the Neuberger Berman Global Opportunistic Bond Fund.
The new, flexible, UCITS fund seeks attractive risk-adjusted returns by opportunistically investing in a diversified mix of fixed rate and floating rate debt securities across sectors, under varying market environments.
The management team shifts allocations in response to changing market conditions – with no persistent biases or tilts. This enables the fund to exploit market mispricing across a broad global opportunity set.
This is a strategy that Neuberger Berman’s fixed income team has been running in segregated accounts
Alger Associates has agreed to acquire Boston-based Weatherbie Capital, a growth equity manager with over USD800 million in assets under management.
Weatherbie Capital was founded in 1995 by Matthew Weatherbie and, similar to Alger, takes a fundamental, bottom-up research approach to investing in growth equities.
Weatherbie Capital aims to identify and invest in attractive US small- and mid-cap companies poised for growth.
Matthew Weatherbie will remain CEO and again become co-CIO of Weatherbie Capital, which at closing will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Alger.
“We are thrilled that Matt and his team have decided to affiliate
The Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund benchmark posted returns of 7.40 per cent in 2016, marking the best performance year for the industry since 2013 and more than tripling the 2.03 per cent gain made through 2015.
Despite a volatile start to the year which caused some performance difficulties, hedge funds rebounded to post positive returns in nine of the final 10 months of the year.
This strong period of performance for the asset class sees three-year annualised returns stand at 4.83 per cent, while five-year annualised gains have reached 7.47 per cent.
Event driven strategies hedge funds saw
BH Global, a London-listed closed-ended investment company, has appointed Julia Chapman to the board of the company.
Chapman is a solicitor qualified in England & Wales and in Jersey with over 25 years’ experience in the investment fund and capital markets sector.
After working at Simmons & Simmons in London, she moved to Jersey and became a partner of Mourant du Feu & Jeune (now Mourant Ozannes) in 1999. She was then appointed general counsel to Mourant International Finance Administration, the firm’s fund administration division.
Following its acquisition by State Street in April 2010, Chapman was appointed European senior
Dolfin has launched the Dolfin Unconstrained Credit Strategy, which targets consistently positive returns in all market contexts by capturing top-down market shifts and investing in attractive bottom up opportunities across the global fixed income spectrum.
Devised and managed by credit expert, Alex Eventon, (pictured) the strategy applies a “go-anywhere” investment flexibility, institutional investment tools and dynamic risk management. It has a performance target of Libor plus 4 per cent.
Eventon says: “Most investors have to hold an allocation to fixed income securities, yet the outlook for generating returns in the current fixed income environment is challenging – especially when
