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Rob Burnett (pictured), Investment Director & Manager of the Neptune European Opportunities Fund, looks at the implications of Syriza’s election victory for Greece’s equity market…
Syriza's share of the vote in the Greek election was higher than expected at 36%, but just short of a complete majority. The party is likely to go into coalition with either The Independent Greeks or To Potami (The River). With Syriza having performed somewhat better than expected, what does this mean for Greece’s equity market? The instant reaction will likely be negative, but we believe this ought to prove to be a long-term buying opportunity for the
- 26/01/2015
- 26/01/2015
IndexIQ has seen assets in its exchange traded funds (ETFs) grow by approximately 46%, and total assets under management and advisement increase by almost 40% in 2014 to over USD1.6 billion.
The increase was led by the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF (QAI), which was the first – and remains the largest – liquid alternative ETF.
Five IndexIQ ETFs marked their fifth anniversaries in 2014, including QAI, which turned five on March 25th. The IQ Hedge Macro Tracker ETF (NYSE Arca: MCRO) turned five on 9 June. The IQ Merger Arbitrage ETF (NYSE Arca: MNA), the first ETF designed to
- 26/01/2015
- 26/01/2015
With a heavy dose of irony, Robert O’Boyle, Executive Vice President and Director of Sales & Marketing at Liquid Holdings, recalls how last year he commented that all the coverage of the ‘cloud’ was overblown.
“What I mean here is that the topic has reached a saturation point. There are very few people who don’t know that the cloud exists or what the benefits are. There’s nothing more to reveal about the cloud – now it’s a case of leveraging what’s actually in the cloud,” says O’Boyle.
A survey conducted a few years ago entitled “Cloud Adoption Trends in the
- 26/01/2015
- 26/01/2015
NewAlpha AM is expanding its activities beyond hedge funds with the successful raising of USD250 million in seed capital for a new long-only strategy.
The new Long-Only Equity strategy, a sub-fund of the French SICAV “Emergence”, which was created by Finance Innovation and with the support of the French Asset Management Association (AFG) and Paris Europlace, and is currently closed to new subscriptions, has attracted 12 institutional investors, several among the largest and most influential in France.
NewAlpha AM has selected two new asset managers Focus Asset Managers and Financière Arbevel, for their potential to deliver higher returns, and injected
- 26/01/2015
Renewed volatility and anticipated increases in assets under management bode well for institutional users of options in 2015, according to TABB’s annual benchmark research.
This comes after institutional options traders faced a challenging trading environment in 2014 as lower market volatility and lack of trading opportunities negatively impacted trading volumes from institutions.
In new annual benchmark research, TABB Group says buy-side traders, facing difficulties in getting access to broker capital and declines in displayed market quality, identified reduced market liquidity as a factor limiting their trading activity in 2014.
“The biggest problem facing options traders is the lack of sufficient
- 23/01/2015
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for January 2015 measured 2.49%, down from 5.87% in December.
“Investor redemption notifications for the month are the lowest since January 2013,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies.
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator represents the sum of forward redemption notices received from investors in hedge funds administered by SS&C GlobeOp on the SS&C GlobeOp platform, divided by the AuA at the beginning of the month for SS&C GlobeOp fund administration clients on the SS&C GlobeOp platform. Forward redemptions as a percentage of SS&C GlobeOp's assets under administration on
- 23/01/2015
The US CFTC has issued an Order of Registration to the Singapore Exchange Derivatives Trading Limited (SGX-DT), a Foreign Board of Trade located in Singapore.
Under the Order, SGX-DT is permitted to provide its identified members or other participants located in the US with direct access to its electronic order entry and trade matching system to trade equity index, interest rate, commodity and foreign exchange futures and options contracts.
The Commission issued the Order in accordance with Part 48 of the Commission’s regulations, which provides that such an Order may be issued to a foreign board of trade that possesses,
- 23/01/2015
Preqin has launched its 2015 Preqin Global Alternatives Reports, revealing significant growth in assets held by private equity, hedge fund, private debt, real estate and infrastructure fund managers. Total industry assets now stand at USD6.91tn*, up from USD6.22tn as of this point last year.
From their conversations with investors, Preqin believes the majority remain confident in the ability of alternative assets to help achieve portfolio objectives. Indeed, across all asset classes a much larger proportion of investors plan to increase their exposure rather than cut back their allocations to alternatives.
The 2015 Preqin Private Equity & Venture Capital Report provides
- 23/01/2015
ALTIN, the Swiss alternative investment company with a portfolio featuring over 40 underlying hedge funds, saw an increase in its share price of 8.60% and 10.20% on the Swiss (SIX) and London (LSE) exchanges respectively in 2014.
Thanks to the permanent capital base provided by its structure, the ALTIN portfolio can be allocated to funds that require a slightly longer lock-up but offer potentially higher returns, without incurring any liquidity mismatch.
The portfolio remains however highly liquid, with 62.2% of assets invested in funds with monthly or better liquidity, allowing the manager to make allocation shifts when deemed necessary. The
- 23/01/2015
Institutional trading network Liquidnet has launched Liquidnet 5, delivering to the buyside a diverse sources of safe and actionable liquidity alongsides analytics and advanced execution tools.
By integrating its commission management and payment suite, Liquidnet 5 also eliminates the obstacles and conflicts that affect best execution.
Developed in collaboration with Liquidnet’s global community of nearly 800 asset managers, the platform allows its Members to streamline and automate workflows and more efficiently manage their commission wallet. Liquidnet will be rolling out additional functionality including point-of-trade analytics that will provide traders with guidance on optimal trading strategies. All of these features have
- 23/01/2015
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