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V2 Capital, a Securities and Exchange Commission-registered investment advisor, has launch the V2 Hedged Equity Fund, an open-ended single manager mutual fund using the V2 Hedged Equity Strategy.
The fund began trading on 31 October 2014 with assets previously invested in V2’s Hedged Equity Strategy Limited Partnership Structure. The launch of the V2 Hedged Equity Fund with USD240 million in assets makes it the largest hedged equity mutual fund launch of the year.
Victor Viner, founder and chief investment officer of V2 Capital, says: “As hedge funds and mutual funds continue to converge, we are excited to be at
- 04/11/2014
- 04/11/2014
As asset growth in traditional hedge funds from institutional investors continues to slow, hedge fund managers are pinning their hopes on the power of new products to attract investor assets and drive growth.
However, many are underestimating the costs involved and the effect on margins, according to EY's 2014 global hedge fund and investor survey: Shifting strategies: winning investor assets in a competitive landscape.
The trend of a gradual slowing of allocations to traditional hedge funds continues. In 2012, 20 per cent of institutional investors that were surveyed expected an increase in their allocation while in 2013 that per
- 04/11/2014
International law firm Maples and Calder has appointed Michael Gagie to the role of managing partner of the firm's Singapore office and has promoted associate Jess Stock to of counsel.
Gagie will relocate to Singapore when all necessary regulatory approvals are obtained.
Gagie joined Maples and Calder in 2010. He has developed an in-depth understanding of the Asian market and business culture during the eight years in which he has worked in Hong Kong, which included a period as managing partner of the Hong Kong office of another international law firm.
Gagie practises both BVI and Cayman Islands
- 03/11/2014
By Gene Ekster – Some historians note that in the 50’s Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, would get into his silver 75hp two-seater airplane and take to the skies to count cars in parking lots with the aim of making better decisions about his firm’s real estate investments. Today investors, with the help of companies like RS Metrics and their satellite imagery product, can scour the parking lots across the globe from their computers and make trading decisions in the spirit of Sam Walton.
Datasets such as the ones from RS Metrics, are known as alternative data in the financial circles
- 03/11/2014
As global banks deleverage and pursue a course of balance sheet strengthening, the opportunities to build exposure to bank debt have become numerous. Loan trading in 2013 rose to USD530bn. According to eVestment, floating rate bank debt was one of the top 10 most searched universes by consultants towards the end of last year.
The fact that this remains quite an esoteric asset class gives hedge funds an advantage over other market participants and the opportunity to look for value.
“If you look at our customer base, 10 years ago there were a handful of players in the loan
- 03/11/2014
- 03/11/2014
Hedge360’s Risk Reporting Service, as part of the platform’s managed service offering, equips managers with the tools needed to manage and effectively report risk to an institutional standard.
Laurence Wormald identifies this growing level of institutionalisation, coupled with regulatory requirements, which under AIFMD in Europe are akin to the UCITS regime, as two primary drivers for enhanced risk management.
“Hedge fund managers essentially need to mirror the same levels of risk management that institutional managers have been doing for many years. We’re very familiar with that. SunGard has over 175 institutional clients using our risk solution; we know what
- 03/11/2014
- 03/11/2014
Global Derivatives Indices (GDI) has formed a strategic partnership with Tradition, the interdealer broking arm of Compagnie Financière Tradition, to use prices from Trad-X to calculate a new USD version of GDI’s Constant Maturity Index (CMI).
This will underpin the GMEX interest rate swap (IRS) Constant Maturity Futures (CMF) contracts.
Under the terms of the partnership agreement, GDI will source firm tradable bids and offers from Trad-X, Tradition’s global trading platform, to calculate a new USD-denominated weighted-average index designed to reflect the USD IRS market in real-time. Additionally, Trad-X will contribute prices to the existing GDI EUR IRS index
- 03/11/2014
- 03/11/2014
EY (Ernst & Young) last year published an operational efficiency survey and in it, they found that 40 per cent of respondents had already outsourced their middle office functions (26 per cent), or planned to over the next two years (14 per cent). Aside from the cost benefits, managers have to demonstrate that their operations are institutional-grade quality. Investors now ascribe the same level of importance to a manager’s operational infrastructure as they do the investment thesis and track record.
This is driving managers towards the adoption of managed services. One of the primary reasons for doing so is the
- 03/11/2014
- 03/11/2014
SunGard’s Hedge360, a cloud-based platform that launched in 2012, puts the power of institutional-grade controls firmly in the hands of hedge fund managers as they strive to achieve institutional-grade credibility. The platform supports the full lifecycle of a fund’s activities front through back, seamlessly integrating its full range of solutions from Front Arena, VPM, InvesTier through to risk management via APT.
Aside from the technology capabilities of Hedge360, which managers can avail of either as an installed or hosted option, what is really driving uptake in the platform – largely because of institutional demand – is the managed services component.
- 03/11/2014
- 03/11/2014
Source this week announced the listing of the Source EURO STOXX Optimised Banks UCITS ETF on the London Stock Exchange. The fund provides exposure to banks within the Eurozone and is optimised to reduce exposure to illiquid stocks.
Michael John Lytle, Chief Development Officer, said that the results of the European Central Bank’s Asset Quality Review have shed light on the health of the region’s banks as well as the broader European economy. “For investors who want to increase their exposure to Eurozone banks, this ETF provides the opportunity to gain access quickly and efficiently. It is the second banking
- 03/11/2014
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