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Invesco Perpetual’s Adrian Bignell on growth opportunities in the Eurozone and why the worst is behind us…
Fears of a euro collapse dominated the economic landscape in 2012. Can investors expect a more stable outlook in the coming year?
Our starting premise is that Europe holds together with a break-up of the euro not being in anyone’s interest, least of all Germany, which is currently benefiting from the weak currency and cheap funding costs.
Labour reform is an important element for believing that Europe is changing – we follow this closely and so far we are encouraged by progress being
DST Systems’ US Investment Recordkeeping solution is now supporting over 1.5 million accounts in the alternative investment space.
DST, the largest provider of third-party shareholder recordkeeping services in the mutual fund industry, also supports a full range of retail alternative investment products, including institutional and retail hedge funds, closed end interval funds, business development companies, managed futures, limited partnerships, and non-traded Reits.
"Companies in the financial services market have long depended on DST’s industry experience, technological expertise, and service excellence to help them grow their businesses," says Chris Shaw, operations officer for DST’s US Investment Recordkeeping unit. "This remains true
The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta (LAB) Index was up 1.10 per cent in January, according to Dr Jordan Drachman, head of alternative beta strategies at Credit Suisse.
The merger arbitrage strategy was the strongest performer for the month, finishing up 2.31 per cent.
The index aims to reflect the performance of the overall hedge fund industry.
Rachael Reynolds has assumed the role of partner in Ogier Cayman’s litigation practice, following the announcement of her promotion by the Ogier Group effective 1 February 2013.
“This is a well-deserved recognition of Rachael’s contributions to the firm and we sincerely congratulate her on her promotion to partner,” says Nick Rogers, managing partner, Ogier Cayman. “Rachael’s talent and abilities as a litigator and a legal professional exemplify the quality of our people and our unwavering commitment to excellence in everything we do.”
Reynolds (pictured) is one of six Ogier professionals who were promoted to partner on 1 February. The others
Fortigent, a provider of high-net-worth solutions and consulting services, has formed a partnership with Central Park Group, an independent investment advisory firm that delivers private client and smaller institutional investors access to institutional hedge fund, private equity, real estate and fund of funds talent.
This new partnership provides investment advisers and financial institutions served by Fortigent with significantly expanded access to an industry leading platform of institutional hedge funds, private equity, real estate and funds of funds enhanced with research, due diligence and asset allocation guidance.
Fortigent is a wholly-owned subsidiary of LPL Financial Holdings, the parent company of LPL
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has launched Instinct Natural, an enhancement to its alternative trading system (ATS) Instinct X, aimed at increasing opportunities to execute block trades while minimising market impact.
“We want to make it easier for our clients to find liquidity so we’ve built a central platform where natural flow can interact,” says Jason D Crosby, global head of portfolio sales and head of Americas institutional execution services sales. “With Instinct Natural, clients can tap the vast, uncorrelated, natural order flow that comes through our firm. We expect this will quickly become the place to go for size
QuantHouse, S&P Capital IQ’s real time operation and the global provider of trading solutions, has aligned with KVH, Asia’s leading information delivery platform, to enable its clients to benefit from proximity to the main Asian exchanges.
The demand for proximity services has increased significantly in recent years due to the international growth of low latency trading and global investing. Client requirements for enhanced access through reduced execution times and improvements to the trade cycle have led to the opening of a number of new data centres by exchange operators.
“The growing ecosystem community and the many potential customers that
Lee Manzi fund manager, Jupiter Fixed Interest and Multi Asset Team on the attractions of convertible bonds in the current environment…
Investors have a dilemma. On the one hand, major parts of the global economy are on the verge of recession with investors seemingly totally unconcerned, while on the other we have unprecedented levels of monetary and fiscal intervention.
Intervention has clearly been winning the day, squeezing investors into riskier assets through “financial repression” (measures taken by central banks to push down government bond yields thereby making them less attractive). This disconnect cannot continue forever. A return to economic growth
Jon Hanifan has joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld to lead its European hedge fund tax advisory team.
He joins from Ernst & Young, where he was a director in the hedge fund tax practice.
Hanifan will work closely with the investment management practice, which was recently joined by partners Tim Pearce and Ian Meade in London, and with Jonathan Ivinson, tax partner in Akin Gump’s London and Geneva offices.
Hanifan specialises in the provision of tax advisory services to hedge fund clients, including the tax implications of structuring new businesses, restructurings, international expansion or relocation, and mergers and
By Marianne Scordel, founder, Bougeville Consulting – Recent alternative investment surveys have sought to answer the following question: “Investors: Who are they?” Overall, the data shows how hedge funds have become more institutionalised. It also documents how the largest hedge funds are attracting a relatively unchanged level of interest, while investor searches for smaller and mid-sized managers is continuing.
As consultants, Bougeville assists hedge fund managers with their business strategies. This touches upon their decision making and processes as well as how they operate and structure their offering to enhance opportunities with investors. The ultimate objective is always to meet current and
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