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Pacific Fund Systems (PFS) has delivered an automated AIFMD Annex IV reporting solution in the latest release of its PFS-PAXUS fund accounting and share registry software platform.
The solution, which is fully integrated into PFS-PAXUS, facilitates the automated generation of an XML file in ESMA format for submission to local regulatory authorities.
This new reporting capability adds to the existing suite of regulatory reporting functionality in PFS-PAXUS.
James Eldershaw, a director of PFS, says: “After consultation with a number of our clients we learnt that they are being approached by their fund manager clients to aggregate and compile
- 21/10/2014
BATS Chi-X Europe (BATS) is to offer trading in Turkey’s most liquid stocks from 3 November 2014.
The addition of BIST30 index names means that BATS will now offer trading across 16 of Europe’s most liquid and active markets.
The move follows significant customer demand to trade Turkish securities – the market is one of the fastest growing in Europe with EUR319bn traded in 2013 – on a low-cost, efficient pan-European exchange. Furthermore, new capital markets legislation in the country should increase competition among trading venues.
Mark Hemsley, CEO of BATS Chi-X Europe, says: “We make it possible
- 21/10/2014
Hedge funds lost 1.18 per cent in September, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge.
At the end of three quarters in 2014 the index remains up 3.10 per cent.
“Anticipation of Fed tightening and ECB loosening poured cold water on equity markets and drove US interest rates higher on the month,” says Sol Waksman, founder and president of BarclayHedge. “Protests in Hong Kong, the close vote for Scottish independence, and the prospect of the US going back to war in the Mideast added to investor jitters and price volatility.”
Overall, 11 of Barclay’s 18
- 21/10/2014
By Ross Ellis (pictured), SEI – The asset management industry is going through a transformative period dominated by two somewhat conflicting trends: growth and uncertainty.
Revenue growth and operational efficiency are always primary business drivers, but paired with flat budgets and growing regulatory requirements, today’s asset managers often face difficult decisions about future planning.
Business growth is bringing additional complexities across the spectrum of buy-side firms: the client base is extending to include global pension funds and sovereign wealth firms, while the number and variety of managed accounts and investment vehicles are expanding. Meanwhile, the strategies within a firm are broadening
- 21/10/2014
A new white paper by New York-based Liquid Holdings Group Inc addresses the very real issue of credibility that hedge fund managers face in today’s crowded market.
Entitled Driving Hedge Fund Growth & Institutional Credibility: An Introduction to the 5 Ss of SaaS, the white paper details five key elements of a vertical SaaS solution managers should be mindful of when trying to build institutional credibility, both with service providers and investors.
Today’s environment is unforgiving for those managers who fail to demonstrate an ability to foster closer collaboration with institutional investors. Managers need a level of sophistication
- 21/10/2014
Eight months after the launch of the reporting duty for exchange traded derivatives (ETD) and over-the-counter (OTC), over one billion transactions have been processed by REGIS-TR, the European trade repository owned by Clearstream (Deutsche Börse Group) and Iberclear (BME).
Elena Carnicero, chief executive officer of REGIS-TR, says: “The one billion transactions that we have processed are a significant milestone that proves that REGIS-TR has become the European hub for the derivatives transaction reporting. Today, REGIS-TR has approximately 1,000 customers and in September it received more than 200 million transaction reports. Processing has been smooth and without failure, which shows how
- 21/10/2014
Preqin looks in detail at investors’ allocations to real estate to assess how they are changing, and how, in light of current investor sentiment, these allocations may be impacted in the coming years.
Institutional confidence in real estate has increased significantly in 2014. The Preqin Investor Outlook: Real Estate, H2 2014, Preqin’s most recent study of institutional investors in real estate, demonstrates that many investors plan to increase their allocations over the longer term as a result of increasing satisfaction with returns.
Allocations
Investors’ average current and target real estate allocations have slowly increased, with the average current allocation increasing from 6.7% of total assets under management
- 21/10/2014
Andy Brunner, investment strategist at Morningstar OBSR, says US equities area facing a number of challenges…
The US is leading a modest rebound in the global economy which most commentators expect to continue through next year. Despite this, a period of higher volatility seems likely as US equities face a number of challenges, not least being they are fairly fully valued, and have avoided a correction for several years.
Another key challenge now facing the US equity market is the end of QE, with investors rightly concerned about the Fed’s campaign to normalise interest rates and the consequent impact on
- 20/10/2014
- 20/10/2014
International investors can now access Franklin Templeton’s first multi-manager, multi-strategy Luxembourg-registered SICAV fund focused on alternative investment strategies.
The Franklin K2 Alternative Strategies Fund SICAV, which was soft-launched a month ago, will follow the same strategy as the US-registered Franklin K2 Alternative Strategies Funds.
Building upon Franklin Templeton’s acquisition of hedge fund solutions provider K2 Advisors in 2012, the fund provides access to a diversified portfolio of alternative investment strategies managed by institutional-quality hedge fund managers. It seeks to provide investors with lower correlations to traditional asset classes, reduced portfolio volatility and attractive risk-adjusted returns, while offering daily liquidity.
- 20/10/2014
The Isle of Man Funds Association, in partnership with the Isle of Man Government’s Department of Economic Development, is to sponsor the Hedge Fund Start-up Forum.
As part of their support for the event which targets new ‘start-up’ investment funds and fund managers and is being held in Zurich on 22 October 2014, Paul Kneen, chairman of the Isle of Man Funds Association and chief executive officer of leading fund administration specialists, the Abacus Financial Services Group, will join other industry professionals as a panel speaker during the first session, ‘Launching a new Hedge Fund: Refining a Strategy and Raising
- 20/10/2014
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