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Smart beta investing, efficient risk diversification, liability driven investment (LDI) strategies, infrastructure and fixed income investing are among the topics to be presented at the EDHEC-Risk Days Europe 2014.
The event will take place at The Mermaid Conference & Events Centre in Blackfriars, London on 25-26 March.
The conference will open with a roundtable involving leading industry representatives and regulators and will address the topic of index transparency and investor expectations. The session will include the presentation of a survey on the transparency and governance of international indices carried out by EDHEC-Risk Institute.
The conference will also feature
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has launched an Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) reporting package for asset managers and their funds.
It is designed to cater to the different needs of SGSS’s asset management clients, allowing them to concentrate on their core investment activities whilst ensuring they are fully compliant with AIFMD.
With transposition of AIFMD into law in EU member states currently underway, reporting requirements will be progressively reinforced throughout Europe. Asset managers will be required to provide regulators with detailed reports for their companies as well as for the funds they manage or promote. This involves
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for January 2014 measured 1.39 per cent.
Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index, meanwhile, advanced 0.94 per cent in February.
"Net flows were positive for the month, with subscriptions outpacing redemptions by two to one," says Bill Stone, chairman and chief executive officer, SS&C Technologies.
JTC Group’s funds arm has invested in an IT platform, FrontInvest, to bolster its capabilities in the funds sector.
The platform, provided by eFront, follows best practice processes and systems and helps to ensure that JTC Group can fulfil regulatory, financial and tax reporting requirements for its growing roster of fund clients.
JTC Group’s international funds team administers both closed- and open-ended funds established in Guernsey, Jersey and Luxembourg, as well as other non-domiciled fund structures in financial centres, such as the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands.
Its expertise and scope has been enhanced by the
Investor capital continued to pour into the Asian hedge fund industry in late 2013 and early 2014, with record inflows and performance driving total investor capital to surpass the record level set in 2007, prior to the 2008 Financial Crisis.
Total capital invested in the Asian hedge fund industry grew to USD112.3 billion according to the latest HFR Asian Hedge Fund Industry Report. Asset growth for both 4Q and January 2014 was driven by investor allocations, as well as performance gains. Investors allocated USD4.2 billion of new capital to the region’s hedge funds in 4Q, the highest quarterly inflows since
Alternative investment and exchange traded fund specialist Lyxor Asset Management (Lyxor) has appointed Lionel Paquin (pictured) as chief executive officer (CEO) with immediate effect.
Paquin succeeds outgoing CEO Inès de Dinechin who will leave the Group.
As well as his new role as CEO, Paquin is also joining the Management Committee of Lyxor’s Global Banking & Investor Solutions division.
Paquin was previously the Head of Lyxor Managed Accounts Platform, a position he had held since 2011. He has also held the position of Chief Risk Officer and Head of Internal Control at the firm, and has been a member of Lyxor
BI-SAM has appointed Jonathan Schapiro as global head of cloud solutions.
In this role, Schapiro will be responsible for further developing and strengthening BI-SAM's private cloud service offering, which delivers performance and reporting tools to the global investment management industry.
The service is designed to meet market participants' demands for cloud-based capabilities that can provide the availability, flexibility and security they need in today's operating environment.
Schapiro will be a member of BI-SAM's executive management committee and will report to Jim Trotter, managing director performance & reporting services.
Schapiro joins BI-SAM from Fidelity Investments. During his 20-year
Fund governance firm DMS Offshore Investment Services has expanded its FATCA task force with the addition of Alaina Danley, formerly director of finance at Bain Capital, and Jennifer Dimitri, formerly director of investment compliance at the University of North Carolina endowment system.
Now comprising seven members, the DMS FATCA Task Force is led by Peter Stafford, formerly a senior partner with Appleby.
It brings together experts in compliance, law, accounting, finance and technology, to develop best practices for responding to the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), a sweeping piece of legislation through which the United States aims to
Dexia Asset Management has launched a new brand identity following its acquisition by New York Life Investments on 3 February 2014.
The company will now be known as Candriam.
Naïm Abou-Jaoudé (pictured), CEO of Candriam and vice chairman of New York Life Investment Management International, says: "Our new name Candriam is the acronym of our core company values: “Conviction and Responsibility in Asset Management. These two values drive everything we do. They are the roots of our expertise, our innovative ideas and a great discipline in our investment processes. Clear convictions empower our teams to strive for excellence. Coupled
LME Clear launched its new trade reporting service, LMEwire, in time to meet the 12 February reporting deadline set out by the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).
The service, offered in partnership with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) trade repository, began reporting on schedule with uptake from 30 per cent of the LME clearing membership.
“The tight implementation deadline for trade reporting under EMIR was a concern for the industry, and ensuring members could comply with the new rules in an efficient and cost-effective manner was the key driver behind this new service,” says Trevor Spanner, CEO
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