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Thomas Walek has launched Peaks Strategies, a strategic communications firm serving financial services and capital markets clients.
Peaks Strategies says its aim is to define, differentiate, promote and protect clients in a marketplace undergoing profound changes.
“Today’s clients and today’s markets demand experienced, focused communications advice and execution. Peaks Strategies will meet those demands with drive and passion,” says Walek (pictured). “From defining brand to building visibility, financial communications, transactions, product launches and managing crisis, Peaks Strategies delivers results that help clients build business.”
Peaks Strategies specialises in strategic communications for public and private companies in capital markets, alternative and
Options has appointed Jon Lambert as the firm’s new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
Lambert, who previously served as CFO for both TIBCO and Wombat Financial Software, brings with him over 25 years of corporate finance and operational experience within the infrastructure technology and financial services sector.
Options CEO and Founder, Nigel Kneafsey, says, “We are thrilled to have Jon join Options’ executive team. His knowledge and experience of corporate finance as it relates to financial services and IT infrastructure will be invaluable as we execute on our strategic goals for 2016."
Regulatory technology, or ‘RegTech’ as it is known, is building momentum in Ireland as the country looks to embrace the Financial Technology revolution.
Speaking at an Irish Funds Industry press event in London last week, Cillian Leonowicz (pictured), Manager, Financial Services, Strategy & Operations – Consulting at Deloitte, said that there is a “real trend” towards FinTech in Ireland, as new technologies emerge to foster innovation and build new businesses as well as improve operational capabilities in existing businesses.
Financial services is obviously a key industry in Ireland. And with the volume of regulation that has come into effect over
DMS Offshore Investment Services (DMS) and Arena Capital Advisors (Arena) have launched the
Arena Short Duration High Income Fund hosted on DMS UCITS ICAV platform.
UCITS has created a regulatory passport for investment managers to access European investors. DMS has developed a proprietary UCITS V compliant ICAV platform to provide investment managers with solutions for their UCITS requirements to support the regulatory and fund governance challenges that UCITS presents for US and international investment managers doing business in Europe.
UCITS V, which came into force on 18 March, 2016, strengthens the protection of UCITS investors. The regulation harmonises the UCITS
Michael Platt, who runs BlueCrest Capital, is Britain's richest hedge fund manager with a fortune of GBP2.1 billion, up GBP600m on last year, according to The Sunday Times Rich List 2016, which is due to be published this weekend.
Platt, who lives in Geneva, earned more than GBP500m from BlueCrest Capital in 2015.
Alan Howard, co-founder of Brevan Howard, who shared top spot on the Hedge Fund Rich List last year, has fallen to fourth place, with his personal fortune now standing at GBP1.04 billion, down GBP460m on 2015. The Brevan Master Fund fell 1.99 per cent in 2015,
The migration to cloud-based IT systems is forcing governments to update privacy regulations to meet evolving data sovereignty requirements. This new report from Ovum “Data privacy laws: Cutting the red tape” shows results of an international survey on the effects of these evolving regulations on businesses.
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Liontrust Asset Management, a UK-based specialist investment management company, has gone live on Eze OMS and Eze Portfolio Accounting, implementing a front-to-back office workflow to replace its in-house systems.
This represents a significant investment by Liontrust and is designed to strengthen and support the company’s activities across its front and middle office, with Eze Software Investment Suite being chosen after a rigorous and lengthy selection process involving a number of vendors.
Liontrust, which has used Eze EMS since April 2012, chose Eze Software Investment Suite because of its capacity to support enhanced analytics, cash management, decision support and modelling, order
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2016 measured 2.94 per cent, down from 4.26 per cent in March.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2016 decreased to 2.94 per cent, down from 4.26 per cent for March 2016 and was also lower on a year-over-year basis compared to 3.36 per cent for April of 2015,” says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “This favourable result is in line with the overall trend toward lower redemptions that began mid-2015 and demonstrates continued investor confidence in the hedge fund sector.”
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward
Mooring Capital Fund, a hedge fund that specialises in the acquisition and management of distressed commercial loans, has reported a 21.1 per cent net return to investors for the year ended 31 December, 2015.
Mooring Capital Fund has now produced a cumulative total return of 611.3 per cent net of fees over the 16.5 years since inception.
Mooring Capital Fund’s performance in 2015 and since inception has outperformed the S&P500, the Dow Jones Hedge Fund Index and the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. For 2015, the S&P500 Index reported a total return of 1.4 per cent. The Dow Jones Hedge
Independent fund, trust and corporate service provider Crestbridge, has strengthened its Fund Services team with the appointment of Colin Targett as a Director.
Based at the firm’s Jersey headquarters, Targett’s remit will focus on growing Crestbridge’s liquid fund administration and ManCo offering following the firm’s recent approval by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) to provide Management Company solutions to investment funds.
Colin brings with him nearly two decades of experience in both the offshore and onshore investment funds industry. Having started his investment funds career with KPMG in Bermuda, he has held a range of roles within the fund
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