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At a time when investors are facing some of the most testing market conditions in living memory, insurers are overwhelmingly concerned about meeting the reporting challenges required under Solvency II.
With prolonged periods of frustratingly low interest rates and overall slow growth set to continue, insurers may look to alternative asset classes in their search for yield.
Those are among the key findings of a new survey conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, on behalf of BlackRock, Inc (NYSE: BLK), examining the impact of Solvency II on the asset allocation and investment strategy of insurers with operations in Europe.
- 13/02/2012
The Salus Alpha RN Special Situations had a performance of +4.85% for the month to date, outperforming the S&P 500 Index by +0.49%.
The Salus Alpha Commodity Arbitrage had a performance of +0.77% for the month to date. The 12 month rolling alpha of Salus Alpha Commodity Arbitrage to the S&P500 is 4% pa, the 12 month rolling beta is currently 0.0. This implies that in the past 12 months, the Salus Alpha Commodity Arbitrage had a return of 4% due to active management (alpha).
Salus Alpha Commodity Arbitrage tracks the CAX – Commodity Arbitrage Index. The CAX Index covers
- 13/02/2012
Size mattered in the fund of hedge funds sector in 2011, as large managers saw AUM fall while those in the mid-market enjoyed an average 10% increase, the latest Preqin research shows.
In total, 24% of fund of hedge funds managers reported an increase in AUM during the course of 2011, an increase of seven percentage points on the proportion that enjoyed an increase between 2008 and 2009.
Managers with USD10bn or more under management endured an average 2.1% decrease in AUM in 2011, suggesting that while investors are keen to invest with managers with a sizeable level of capital,
- 13/02/2012
Cisco Systems Inc, Comcast Corp (Class A shares) and FedEx Corp have been added to the Dow Jones US Contrarian Opportunities Index.
The index is designed to systematically measure the performance of stocks that lag behind the broader market in terms of recent performance, but outrank their peers based on fundamentals and other qualitative criteria.
Including Cisco Systems (the world’s 31st-largest company, measured by free-float market capitalisation), Comcast (54th-largest) and FedEx (223rd-largest), a total of 54 companies were added to ― and 52 deleted from ― the index as part of a regular semi-annual review by Dow Jones Indexes,
- 13/02/2012
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a hedge fund manager and his Menlo Park, California-based firm for their involvement in the insider trading ring connected to Raj Rajaratnam and hedge fund advisory firm Galleon Management.
The SEC alleges that Douglas F Whitman and Whitman Capital illegally traded based on material nonpublic information obtained from Rajaratnam associate Roomy Khan, who was Whitman’s friend and neighbour. Khan tipped Whitman with confidential details about Polycom Inc.’s fourth quarter 2005 earnings and Google Inc’s second quarter 2007 earnings prior to the public announcements of those financial results by the companies. Whitman Capital reaped
- 13/02/2012
JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services (WSS) has launch the Fund Reporting and Media Exchange Site (FRaMES), which provides Mutual Fund Administration regulatory services clients with real-time access to a secure, collaborative work environment for fund administration activities.
The FRaMES portal is the newest component of JP Morgan ACCESSsm, the firm’s web-based platform for multiple information, compliance and portfolio management applications.
FRaMES provides real-time document sharing, including uploading and download functions, as well as online delivery capabilities and data archives for board books and records. In addition to document management, FRaMES houses proprietary research, online tools and client-specific links to
- 13/02/2012
Empaxis, a provider of operational services and support for asset managers and prime brokerage firms running Advent applications, has launched its Overnight Process Monitoring (OPM) system for hedge funds and other investment advisory firms.
Empaxis’ system is specifically designed to actively monitor and validate all processes for firms that are running Axys, APX and Geneva applications as well as other systems. It ensures that all systems are diligently monitored overnight, validated as successful or unsuccessful, proactively worked on if they fail, and seamlessly handed off directly to clients or third-party vendors before the start of the following business day.
Eliminating
- 13/02/2012
2012 was a promising start for alternative UCITS funds with the UCITS Alternative Index Global gaining 1.37 per cent having fallen 3.64 per cent in 2011.
- 12/02/2012
A new fund which aims to give clients access to both GAM’s investment management expertise and Barclays Capital’s quantitative stra
- 12/02/2012
Total assets in Irish-domiciled funds have exceeded EUR1trillion, an all-time high, reflecting what Gary Palmer (pictured), Chief Executive of the Irish Funds Industry Association (IFIA)
- 12/02/2012
- 12/02/2012
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