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FNEX, the financial marketplace for alternative investments, has appointed Carissa Newton as the company’s chief marketing officer.
Newton reports directly to FNEX CEO Todd Ryden and leads all strategic marketing efforts at FNEX beginning with the company’s national marketing and advertising campaign.
FNEX launched FNEX.com, an online marketplace for alternative investments including direct placements in private companies, hedge funds and managed futures accounts, in September 2013. The web-based platform provides investment advisors, family offices, institutions, and accredited investors access to investment opportunities offered by investment banks and funds across the US.
“Carissa’s deep understanding of financial services and technology
AMP Capital has launched an Asia quant fund, which takes the quantitative investment technique it has used in Australia and applies it to a selection of rapidly developing Asian markets.
The AMP Capital Asia Quant Fund, which is market neutral, has been launched with USD25 million in assets under management.
During market testing, the fund has established a two-year track record of long/short investing in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea, which is combined with AMP Capital’s 20 years of quantitative investing in Australia.
The fund’s investible universe comprises more than 800 stocks across the five countries.
The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI), in association with the Luxembourg Association of Risk Management (ALRiM), has published new risk management guidelines.
The guidelines cover operational risk management within UCITS, and risk management under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Marc Saluzzi, chairman of ALFI, says: “The publication of these guidelines highlights Luxembourg’s business friendly, expert and competitive jurisdiction for both UCITS and Alternative Investment Funds, which is being recognised by the industry. So far 38 AIFM authorisations are on the CSSF’s list with a further 30 approved yet to be added. 200 have so far
TABB Group has promoted Paul Rowady to principal, head of research for the capital markets research and consulting firm’s new Research Alliance Data & Analytics (DnA) IT practice.
Rowady has over 24 years of proprietary trading and capital markets experience with a background in strategy research, risk management and trading technology, with specific expertise in derivatives, highly automated trading systems and data management initiatives.
“Paul has been a valuable asset at TABB for the past five years and his talents have been equally important to our private consulting engagements as well as our subscription-based research catalogue,” says Bob Iati,
IT service company Virtusa Corporation’s CSalt solution now integrates with Investor Analytics’ risk platform to streamline and simplify Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) Annex IV reporting.
Both companies are committed to easing the burdens of alternative investment advisors and those that support them, and this integration will give alternative investment fund managers a single place to easily import, map and transform data in order to fulfil the requirements of AIFMD and Annex IV.
“Since we first unveiled CSalt in early 2013, we’ve worked closely with advisors and compliance consultants to ensure that the solution meets their exact requirements,”
Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has appointed Chris Bellairs as partner within the financial services practice.
Bellairs has over 16 years' experience as an auditor and adviser across the Financial Services industry.
He joins BDO from PwC, where he led the insurance and investment management internal audit advisory service, and acted as senior statutory auditor on a number of external audits in the fund management sector, across traditional asset managers, private equity, real estate and hedge fund managers.
Bellairs’ industry experience has been gained both in the UK and internationally, and globally he was the sovereign wealth
North Street Global, a diversified financial services firm headquartered in New York City with an office in Los Angeles, has appointed hedge fund industry veteran Kira Bazile as president.
In her new role, Bazile will head business development for the firm's fund administration platform, capital introductions group and global markets division.
"Kira is a well-respected industry veteran and our clients will benefit from her diverse experience in working with hedge fund managers to help them achieve their goals," says CEO Alex Mascioli.
Bazile has been in the prime brokerage component of the hedge fund industry for over 17
Steven O’Hanlon, Head of Fixed Income at ACPI Investment Managers comments on what the Indian election result means for investors as BJP wins a landslide victory…
This decisive result is undoubtedly significant. We believe it represents a decisive mandate for growth and investment over subsidies and inflation – features of previous regimes. The clear mandate given to the BJP party, we believe can provide the type of stability in government not seen in India for a long time. Together with a strong RBI, this can create the conditions for sustainable growth for India.
The current excellent management of the
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services has introduced real-time analytics for the most liquid futures contracts traded on Eurex.
Eurex Real-time Analytics provides market participants with in-depth trade and order information based on the full Eurex order book for the first time.
“Market participants require more sophisticated information in order to make better trading and risk management decisions. Eurex Real-time Analytics provides investors and analysts with greater insight to help them evaluate market activity and trends,” says Georg Gross, head of information, Market Data + Services, Deutsche Börse. 


The information currently comprises more than 25 order- and trade-related
Investors are reassessing the relative value of the main asset classes, according to research released by the CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK).
The CFA UK Valuations Index reveals that almost half of investment professionals (49 per cent) currently view developed market equities as overvalued, up from 39 per cent last quarter, while just 16 per cent view them as undervalued – the lowest proportion since the index was first published in 2012.
There has also been a shift in opinion regarding government bonds and gold in the last quarter, with fewer investment professionals viewing the traditional ‘safe
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