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RAM Active Investments has appointed Nexus Investment Advisors Limited as manager of the RAM Asia Bond Total Return Fund – previously known as Samena (Lux) Global Funds – Credit Opportunities Fund.
This decision is the logical consequence following the departure of the fund's management team, Richard Yang and Carl Wong, from Samena Capital to join Nexus. Nexus is an excellent platform for the investment team to continue managing the fund. In order to place emphasis on the fund’s investment style, RAM has decided to rename the fund “RAM Asia Bond Total Return”.
“After three years of successful collaboration with Richard
Shanghai Stock Exchange, China Financial Futures Exchange and Deutsche Börse are to launch a joint venture to develop and to market financial instruments based on Chinese underlyings to international investors outside mainland China.
The venture is designed to support the internationalisation of the Chinese currency; therefore, products will be offered in Renminbi (RMB). The company will be named ‘China Europe International Exchange’ and will commence market operations in Q4 2015. The initial scope of product development will cover cash market products for market launch.
Shanghai Stock Exchange and Deutsche Börse will each own 40 per cent and China Financial Futures
When the FATCA returns and listing deadline of 1 June ends, financial institutions must quickly turn their attention to even more expensive and burdensome regulations.
Justin Hayes, product manager at Linedata, the leading international software and solutions provider, outlines the impact the OECD Common Reporting Standards, dubbed ‘Global FATCA’, will have on the industry. “Under the OECD Common Reporting Standards, dubbed ‘Global FATCA’, financial institutions have just seven months to get their act together as they will be required to track unprecedented volumes of investor information from the start of next year,” says Hayes. “This will be an unparalleled regulatory
The JonesTrading Group of Companies has named industry veteran and institutional equity execution specialist Jeffrey Gamble as Vice President of JonesTrading Canada’s Toronto office.
Over the course of the last several years JonesTrading, a leading block trading firm in US and international securities for institutions, has grown its asset classes available for trading and market intelligence globally. The firm resourced these initiatives with industry veterans. All of the initiatives have retained and expanded JonesTrading’s relationship based model, which has proved resilient even as market structure and new competitive entrants have entered the execution space.
Gamble has broad and deep
IKONIC Fund Services has chosen Nedelma Portfolio Amalfi to provide enhanced, dynamic reporting to its hedge fund clients.
Now, IKONIC’s daily servicing clients will receive their fully reconciled and priced portfolio data on a T+1 basis via Nedelma’s dynamic and flexible reporting tool. Nedelma has licensed Portfolio Amalfi to IKONIC enabling the company to offer powerful portfolio data visualisation, slice and dice capabilities, and a range of attribution analysis to its clients.
In an increasingly competitive market, IKONIC strives to provide value add services to their clients to meet both the investment manager and the fund investors demands for
Sussex Partners has been appointed by MCP Asset Company Limited (MCP) to provide access for the Oasis Value Long Fund and the Oasis Value Alpha Fund to its institutional clients in Switzerland, parts of Europe and the United States.
The Funds run on MCP’s hedge fund platform and are advised by Norinchukin Value Investments Co., Ltd. (NVIC), whose parent company, The Norinchukin Bank, with USD828.1 billion in assets as of 30 September 2014 is one of the largest institutional investors in the world.
NVIC pursues a high conviction, concentrated and long-term fundamental approach to liquid equity investing in
Latest figures released on Jersey’s finance industry show a steady performance including a small increase in banking deposits and signs that a change to fund regulation will support certain types of new funds business.
Banking deposits have reached their highest level since last summer and while there was a small fall in the value of funds, this has followed a period of consistent growth each quarter, so overall the economic picture is very stable. The statistics, collated and prepared by the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC), are for the three month period ending 31st March 2015. Headline figures include:
The
Despite the devastation of the 2008 global financial crash, institutional investors are soaking up more of the upside in global equity markets, despite not necessarily having a clear strategy on how to protect their portfolios against downside volatility.
Institutional investors have enjoyed a golden period of returns over the last five years. The S&P 500, for example, doubled in size during Barack Obama’s first term of office between 2009 and 2012. Since that time the market has continued its ceaseless climb northwards, gaining 11.5 per cent during 2014 and 14.84 per cent on a year-on-year basis. Similarly, US Treasuries have
Franklin Templeton Investments has launched it first multi-manager, liquid alternative strategy in Canada, the Franklin K2 Alternative Strategies Fund, providing institutional investors with access to a portfolio of alternative investment strategies managed by institutional hedge fund managers.
"In today's volatile, low interest rate environment, Canadian institutional plans are looking for investment options that can help reduce volatility in unpredictable markets, while providing attractive risk-adjusted returns," says Dan Elsberry, head of Alternatives, North America Advisory Services, Franklin Templeton Investments. "Franklin K2 Alternative Strategies Fund can be a compelling investment option for such investors, as well as those who are looking to
responsAbility Investments AG, a specialist in development investments, has chosen eFront’s FrontPM portfolio monitoring solution.
FrontPM streamlines and automates the collecting of portfolio company data. For responsAbility, the eFront solution will allow the firm to grow efficiently while providing exceptional management for businesses and other assets in developing economies.
responsAbility Investments is one of the world’s leading asset manager in the field of development investments and offers professionally managed investment solutions to both private and institutional investors. The company supplies debt and equity financing to non-listed companies in emerging economies and developing countries. With current investments in more than
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