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Dominic Wheatley (pictured), Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance, explains how the Island provides Latin American fund managers and investors with a unique offering.
Colleagues who visited Brazil, Chile and Colombia earlier this year were struck by the way in which Latin American institutional investors are shifting their allocations away from simply the traditional domestic market to incorporate wider asset classes, such as private equity and with global exposure, including Europe.
These factors, coupled with a desire to access European capital, are driving Latin American fund managers to establish European-based platforms subject to European regulation, such as the Undertakings for
Eze Software Group has integrated its execution management system (EMS) with its order management system (OMS), combining critical trading and compliance workflows across its front-to-back product suite.
With this latest development, users can benefit from the advanced trading tools available in RealTick EMS while also taking advantage of important Eze OMS features such as fully integrated compliance, position checking, and automated allocations.
With the introduction of advanced compliance features into RealTick MS, pre-trade compliance checks now run seamlessly in the EMS at trade entry and throughout the trading life cycle. This provides clients with a more holistic pre-, intra-,
Hedge funds gained 0.79% in November, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index is now up 3.47% in 2014.
“A continuing recovery in the US, along with increased monetary stimulus in Japan and possibly Europe, served to drive global equity prices higher in November,” says Sol Waksman, founder and president of BarclayHedge.
Overall, 15 of Barclay’s 18 hedge fund indices had gains in November. The Healthcare & Biotechnology Index was up 2.62%, Global Macro gained 2.34%, European Equities were up 1.97%, the Multi Strategy Index added 1.39%, and Equity Long/Short gained 1.22%.
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Global investors are keeping faith with equities while raising cash as markets enter the volatile year-end period, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch Fund Manager Survey for December.
Asset allocators have hiked their cash holdings to an average 5 per cent. Moreover, a net 28 per cent are now overweight relative to their benchmarks. This is the survey’s highest reading on this measure since June 2012.
Despite this defensive move, respondents show renewed confidence in the global economy. A net 60 per cent now expect it to strengthen over the next year – up almost 30 percentage points in two
Euronext has launched a range of Single Stock Dividend Futures on the most liquid stocks listed on its Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon and Paris markets.
The new dividend futures contracts will be available for trading in Q1 2015, starting with CAC 40 Index components. Euronext’s Single Stock Dividend Futures will offer investors additional dividend trading potential and will enable them to benefit from efficient pricing. The new products complement Euronext’s already existing dividend index offering made of the CAC 40 and AEX Dividend Index Futures.
Dividends are a key component for equity and equity derivatives holders and dividend futures are
GAMCO Investors has appointed Dennis J DeCore as Co-Portfolio Manager of the Comstock Capital Value Fund.
DeCore joins Charles L Minter, who has been a Portfolio Manager of the Comstock Capital Value Fund since its inception in 1985.
DeCore has more than forty years of experience in the brokerage business. Prior to joining GAMCO, he held positions at Merrill Lynch and Nomura Securities. DeCore received a BS in Finance and Economics from Rider University and an MBA in Finance from New York University.
Moody's Investors Service outlook for the credit quality of bond funds remains stable reflecting issuers' creditworthiness underpinned by positive underlying factors, including the significant amount of liquidity held by corporations, strengthening capital in the banking sector and a less risky, if subdued, global economic outlook.
The new report – 2015 Outlook – Bond Funds: Stable Credit Strength; Buffeted by Market Volatility – reveals that sharp credit deterioration in bond fund portfolios will be limited in 2015. Moody’s expects the global speculative-grade default rate to remain low, ending 2014 at 2.3% before increasing slightly to 2.7% by end of 2015. However,
A new report from the TABB Group shows that prime brokerage, long thought to be the most opaque of markets, is in the midst of a large-scale change.
The report, “Equity Prime Brokerage: Exploring Uncharted Territory,” is the result of several months of conversations with prime services providers and independent financial analytics firms, including data from S3 Partners.
The document finds that Basel III is changing the way the buy side looks at the treatment of financing and collateral. The report says that collateral and financing must be analysed and structured to the same level as trading costs.
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Alternative investments remain squarely in the growth phase, with investors across the globe looking beyond absolute returns as they seek to incorporate liquidity needs, regulatory status and transparency in allocation decisions.
Meanwhile, the definition of what constitutes an alternative investment continues to vary by region and, to a greater extent, by organiation type. These dynamics create opportunities and challenges for helping investors fully understand their potential alternatives contributions.
These were among the key findings of a new Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (Deutsche AWM) survey of investors. “The Alternative Perspective – 2014 Global Survey of Investors in Alternatives” surveyed 373
Following the strong win by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in the Japanese General Election, John Vail (pictured), Chief Global Strategist, Nikko Asset Management, sees further boosts for Japan from corporate profits moving through to wage rises…
In our view, the LDP coalition's maintenance of a strong two-thirds majority in this election will greatly help Prime Minister Abe and his party's reform efforts, while likely bolstering Yen weakness to some degree. This is a common view, but one item that is not often discussed is that not only will this victory help push forward economic reform momentum in government ministries (and the
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