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Altin, the Swiss alternative investment company listed on the London and Swiss stock exchanges, has disclosed its entire hedge fund portfolio holdings.
The portfolio, featuring more than 30 underlying hedge funds and representing over 10 investment strategies, has a net asset value performance of +164.83 per cent since its inception in December 1996.
The portfolio as at 1 October 2012 is as follows:
Macro strategy – 17.13 per cent
AlphaMosaic SPC – SP 127 Episteme Capital Partners LLP Systematic Quest Fund 3X – 1.43 per cent
Comac Global Macro Fund Ltd – 3.79 per cent
Goldfinch Capital Management Offshore Ltd
Imagine Software, a provider of real-time portfolio and risk management solutions worldwide, has launched a risk aggregation platform.
The Imagine Risk Aggregator, which has already been adopted by SkyBridge Capital, helps all those investing across multiple funds and asset classes around the globe achieve greater transparency into investments, access more meaningful risk analyses, and foster increased investor confidence in risk exposure data.
SkyBridge Capital is a global research driven alternative investment firm with approximately USD6.6bn in total assets under advisement or management as of 31 August.
“We are pleased that SkyBridge Capital selected the Imagine Risk Aggregator to provide advanced
AlphaClone, a specialist in hedge fund position replication, reports 2012 performance through Q3 for its Momentum Select and AlphaClone Select portfolios of 33 and 18.7 per cent, respectively.
The performance of these rules-based clone portfolios ranks among the top decile of hedge fund returns for the year based on research from Goldman Sachs as reported by Business Insider, supporting the utility of 13-F disclosure research as a basis for successful investment strategies.
The performance of AlphaClone’s Momentum Select and AlphaClone Select strategies also outperformed the S&P500, which returned 16.4 per cent through September 2012. The average long/short equity hedge fund
Eurex Exchange has launched a new incentive programme for trading participants based in Asia and Australia.
The initiative – launched at the beginning of October – aims to attract new participants to Eurex and to make trading even more interesting for existing members.
The programme offers significant reductions in connection fees and will grant additional volume-based discounts for Asian-based subsidiaries of existing Eurex members.
Eurex Exchange is also considerably expanding bandwidth at its network Access Points in Hong Kong and Singapore. From January 2013 participants will be able to obtain connections of up to 80 Mbit/s. Until now, the maximum
Alternative investment manager Aquila Capital has appointed Stuart MacDonald as managing director to assist in developing Aquila’s growing institutional business.
MacDonald joins Aquila Capital from Gems Advisors, having previously worked in a senior capacity at firms such as Henderson Global Investors, West Merchant Bank and Buchanan Partners.
In addition to many years of developing UK and international institutional clients, MacDonald hosts the investment radio show, “The Naked Short Club”, on London’s Resonance 104.4FM.
Roland Schulz, managing director at Aquila Capital, says: “I am delighted to welcome Stuart to the team. Stuart is a highly respected leader with extensive industry knowledge
Investment into global farm production has not only generated high returns for investors over the past year, but will be increasingly necessary in the fight to avert global food shortages.
Extreme weather has led to a fall in food production this year, leading to dramatic increases in food prices, and the UN has called for increased sustainable food production to avert a global crisis.
The GAIA Farming Index calculated by Indxis, an independent provider of bespoke indices, allows investors to support agricultural production through a long-term investment.
The index invests in listed companies that mainly operate farms producing meat,
NYSE Euronext and the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore bilateral business opportunities and connect their respective customer bases in Asia, Europe and the US through NYSE Euronext’s order routing system.
This alliance will support the development of the exchanges’ futures and options markets.
The agreement will serve as a framework for closer cooperation between the exchanges in order to develop products, establish a two-way order routing partnership to facilitate reciprocal order flow and explore distribution channels for key products. The exchanges also intend to share information, best practices and resources.
“Taiwan
St Julians, Malta, 15 October, 2012 – Hedgeweek, the hedge fund industry’s leading news portal, has just released a special report “EXANTE 2012”. It profiles the strategies of six top performers in the EXANTE Hedge Fund Index, which is currently composed of the 20 best performing hedge funds listed on EXANTE‘s Automated Trading Platform (ATP).
EXANTE’s fund platform is a potential game changer for the industry as it gives investors the opportunity to invest directly in hedge funds. When asked about the selection of managers, Gatis Eglitis (pictured), one of EXANTE’s managing partners, emphasizes that the critical factor is the
Interdealer broker and provider of post trade and information services ICAP has launched a joint credit derivatives rating service with Rapid Ratings, an alternative rating, research and analytics firm.
The new product brings together two independent sources of information to deliver a unique view of the credit derivatives market.
“Partnering with ICAP for this unique view of the credit market will provide transparency and intelligence for financial market participants who require independent sources of data for valuations, as well as regulatory, accounting and risk management purposes,” says James Gellert, chairman and chief executive of Rapid Ratings.
Kevin Taylor,
SS&C Technologies, a provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, has launched GoTrade+, a flexible middle-office service for complex investment portfolios.
GoTrade+ supports post-trade activities of complex traded transactions including bilateral and cleared OTC derivatives, listed derivatives, loans and other securities.
The services can be flexibly fitted into existing client infrastructures to flow seamlessly with current processes. The technology receives trade data from front office systems and delivers post trade life cycle support, valuations, collateral management, cash services, accounting, reporting and data delivery all wrapped in a personalized relationship management framework.
Carmine Ricciardi of Mizuho Securities USA, a
