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SAM, the alternative asset manager launched by Lord Stanley Fink in 2008, has launched IS Prime, a new foreign exchange brokerage service.
IS Prime will only target institutional investors – retail brokers, asset managers, regional banks, hedge funds and family offices – with a range of services including traditional and non-traditional liquidity, prime of prime brokerage and access to risk management solutions. The firm will provide uniquely flexible solutions which will be tailored to each individual client’s needs.
The business will be led by Jonathan Brewer and Raj Sitlani, Managing Partners, who have over 37 years’ combined brokerage experience
Arvind Chari, Investment Adviser, at ACPI Investment Managers comments on the recent Indian CPI figures…
The Indian CPI for October settled at 5.5%, below what many were anticipating. Following the trend in CPI over the summer, which fell 1% a month since July, November’s CPI is likely to be close to 4.5%.
Although a substantial year-on-year impact is due to the base effects of vegetables and fuel, there has been a deceleration in overall inflation. The decrease in year-on-year inflation is due to the slower month-on-month growth shown by food and core CPI items.
This trend will play out as lower
Fitch Ratings' 2015 rating and sector outlooks for investment managers are stable despite increasing competition between traditional and alternative investment managers to meet retail investors' growing appetite for alternative investments and secondary risks associated with a potential interest rate rise.
The outlooks, published in a special report by Fitch today, reflect the ongoing growth in assets under management (AUM), increasing AUM scale and diversity, consistently strong margins and healthy leverage and liquidity levels.
'Investment managers could face headwinds in 2015 if interest rates rise sharply or unexpectedly,' says Mohak Rao, Director, Financial Institutions. 'However, the low rate environment has
Direct lending funds have continued to gain traction in the private debt marketplace, and are the prevailing strategy for private debt fund managers established since 2008, according to Preqin.
Almost three-quarters of institutional investors active in the private debt space plan to allocate fresh capital in the coming year to direct lending funds, which are often considered a better fit for more conservative investors in the private debt market, given their similar structure to fixed income investments compared to more private equity-style methods such as mezzanine and distressed debt funds.
Fundraising in the private debt space reached a peak in
This week the Management Board of Directors of the Palaedino Fund announced that London-based Sabre Fund Management Limited had launched the Sabre Dynamic Equity Fund.
This is the seventh fund to join the Palaedino UCITS Platform, a Luxembourg SICAV established in November 2009. The Management Company of the Platform is FundPartner Solutions (Europe) S.A., a 100 per cent affiliate of the Pictet Group based in Luxembourg.
Sabre Dynamic Equity is a quantitative long/short equity fund that invests across a broad universe of 800 large/midcap European stocks and 500 large-cap US stocks. The strategy achieves its performance from exploiting systematic
FIX Trading Community has published an industry Implementation Guide for the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect project.
The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect project will allow global investors to trade Shanghai ‘A’ shares via the Hong Kong Stock Exchange while Chinese mainland investors will be able to trade Hong Kong ‘H’ shares via the Shanghai Stock Exchange for the first time.
In an effort to standardise implementation and educate on “early practices” and later “best practices” by participating firms, the Implementation Guide provides a number of suggested tags and their usages which are set out to provide the industry with a
Equinox Funds has expanded its Alternative Strategy Platform with the addition of the Equinox Aspect Core Diversified Strategy Fund (EQAIX).
By deploying a medium-term trend following strategy developed by Aspect Capital Limited (Aspect), a legendary alternative asset management firm based in London, the Fund seeks to quantitatively identify and profit from price moves in highly liquid and diverse futures markets across global asset classes.
"At Aspect, we believe that trend following strategies can be a source of persistent investment return opportunities and may provide valuable portfolio diversification," says Anthony Todd, CEO of Aspect. “And we are delighted to have partnered
Alternative Asset Managers continue to operate with elevated levels of uncalled investment capital, or dry powder, at a time when credit markets are frothy and valuations are high, according to Fitch Ratings.
With more capital chasing fewer deals, significant fund underperformance is possible if competition bids prices up further, according to a special report on the alternative asset management industry published today by Fitch. Outsized vintage concentrations and a lack of distressed investing opportunities, a traditional area of investment competency for alternative asset managers, could potentially exacerbate this issue.
Despite these challenges, Fitch's rating outlooks for all seven rated alternative
Imatchative, the company behind the AltX data analytics platform and marketplace for capital introduction in the global alternative asset class space, has appointed John Bohan to the role of Head of Corporate Development
Having served as an advisor to the company, Bohan will now be a member of the executive team of the company and work directly with Sam Hocking, the company’s Founder and CEO, to develop key global strategic relationships.
“By filling this new position with someone of John's caliber, the company is better positioned to develop partnerships that will play a critical role in our domestic and international growth. John brings a wealth of
Barclays and MSCI have launched a new green bond index family measuring the global market of fixed income securities issued to fund projects and initiatives with direct environmental benefits.
The Barclays MSCI Green Bond Index family complements the existing Barclays MSCI ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Fixed Income Index family, and is now available to institutional clients to license for their index-linked investment products, such as Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), separately managed accounts, and structured products.
Eligibility for the Barclays MSCI Green Bond Index family is based on an independent and objective assessment of securities by MSCI ESG Research
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