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Voting for the 5th edition of the Hedgeweek USA Awards, which recognise excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers around the world, is due to close at midnight on Friday 26 June.
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Indus Valley Partners (IVP) has launched IVP Treasury and Treasury managed services, providing hedge funds with a single platform to manage the economics of their PB relationships (RoA) and overall portfolio financing needs.
IVP Treasury brings together best-in-class technology to help alternative asset managers track, control and optimize their treasury functions. Starting with automation and analytics as key focus areas, IVP Treasury helps funds to manage collateral and margin, automate cash management and wires, and hedge FX exposures across their portfolios.
“Asset managers need to take a 'holistic' approach to financing; incorporating long and short rates, credit lines, swaps
SYZ Asset Management, the asset management division of the SYZ Group, has launched OYSTER Multi-Asset ActiProtect, a new sub-fund of its Luxembourg SICAV (UCITS).
Managed internally by the Multi-Asset team, the fund offers dynamic multi-asset management that seeks to generate two-thirds of the performance of global equities over the medium to long term with only a third of their risk.
The fund invests throughout the world particularly through futures and index-based products by acquiring exposure to a wide range of assets, such as bonds, equities, currencies, gold and cash. The main innovation lies in dynamic management of the risk budget,
Fifty three percent of asset managers are not confident that the investment performance figures they report are completely accurate, according to a new survey by SimCorp.
A total of 88 asset managers representing USD22.5 trillion in assets under management participated in the survey, conducted during a recent SimCorp webinar, “IBOR: The One Source of Truth for Investment Performance.”
This lack of confidence in reporting can be attributed to additional information revealed by the survey. For example, 80 per cent of respondents confirmed that portfolio managers do not receive investment performance numbers based on intra-day position calculations. Furthermore, only 59 per
CME Clearing Europe has promoted Tina Hasenpusch to Chief Executive Officer. She will replace Lee Betsill, who will be returning to Chicago as Managing Director, Global Clearing Operations at CME Clearing.
Hasenpusch previously served as Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of CME Clearing Europe, and has worked closely with Betsill in developing this important part of CME Group's global business. Hasenpusch will be responsible for continuing to grow the business and will work with customers to address their clearing requirements.
Under Betsill's leadership CME Clearing Europe (CMECE) has grown to list a broad range of cash settled and physically
Preqin’s Real Estate Online features detailed profiles for more than 260 Switzerland-based institutional investors. Pension funds represent the majority (55%) of all Switzerland-based real estate investors; however due to Switzerland’s large private wealth industry, wealth managers and family offices make up over a quarter of investors.
Read the full factsheet here, containing more analysis alongside charts and tables featuring the latest Preqin data.
Wall Street Horizon, a provider of single-stock event research data for institutional investors and traders, has appointed Eric Soderberg as its Chief Marketing Officer.
Soderberg brings more than 20 years of experience building and leading the marketing and communication teams for high-profile financial information and technology companies including Convergex, BondDesk, Trepp, NYFIX, ClariFI and Macgregor.
“We're at an exciting point in our growth as many more firms are starting to appreciate the value that a highly accurate single-stock event dataset can have in making smarter investment and trading decisions,” says Barry L Star, Wall Street Horizon's chief executive officer. “I
In an effort to narrow the gap between dynamically managed, multi-asset institutional portfolios and the current set of static, single asset class or balanced retail fund offerings that combine just equities and bonds, asset managers are increasingly likely to bundle together three growing product sets into new packaged retail solutions that combine portfolio construction, risk management and investment oversight into a single investment fund.
That’s the conclusion of Citi’s 6th Annual Industry Evolution Survey. The findings are based on one-on-one interviews with 100 firms globally, covering investment managers with USD25 trillion AUM (35% of the industry’s total) and investors and
Eze Castle Integration, a leading provider of strategic IT solutions and private cloud services, today announced that
SEC registered investment advisor Wexford Capital has selected the Eze Private Cloud platform for its fully managed, enterprise-grade environment.
Wexford, which was formed in 1994, manages a series of hedge funds and private equity funds from its Greenwich, CT and West Palm Beach, FL offices. The Eze Private Cloud allows the firm’s employees to focus on more tactical, revenue-generating work and create business value.
Dante Domenichelli, Chief Operating Officer at Wexford Capital, says: “Eze Castle Integration delivers the comprehensive services and expert, reliable
A significant majority of high net worth and institutional investors plan to increase their allocation to alternative funds in 2015, according to a survey conducted by Altegris Advisors.
Findings of the Altegris Investor Survey, conducted at the Strategic Investment Conference, hosted by Altegris and Mauldin Economics, revealed that 66 per cent of respondents plan to increase their allocation to alternatives during the second half of 2015 – of which managed futures/global macro (32 per cent) and private equity (28 per cent) ranked as the top asset classes for increasing. Registered Investment Advisers (45 per cent) and Private Investors (31 per
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