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Commodities alternative investment manager J E Moody has joined dbSelect, Deutsche Bank’s platform for accessing liquid hedge fund strategies.
The move allows investors to access J E Moody’s Commodity Relative Value (CRV) Program in a transparent, safe, liquid and efficient manner through Deutsche Bank’s dbSelect platform. Managed investment platforms allow hedge fund managers to offer multiple ways of accessing investment strategies, including UCITS, whilst reducing risk and increasing liquidity for investors.
J E Moody currently has over USD170 million in assets under management and recently celebrated the fifth anniversary of its CRV Program. The CRV Program is a highly
In the wake of inflationary pressure, the on-going loosening by China of its monetary policy is likely to be a key catalyst in ensuring the outperformance of emerging market equities compared to developed markets. However, with the crisis in the Eurozone spreading out further towards the core countries in the monetary union, earnings in the region are set to decline by up to 10%, says Maarten-Jan Bakkum (pictured), Senior Emerging Market Strategist, ING Investment Management…
China’s easing of its monetary policy may well be the catalyst for outperformance of emerging market equities versus developed markets. This comes in the wake
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was down 0.44% in November. Year-to-date performance as of November 2011 is -6.26%.
The top performing strategies over the month were Lyxor L/S Equity Market Neutral Index (+0.77%), Lyxor CTA Long Term Index (+0.66%) and Lyxor CTA Short Term Index (+0.47%).
The Lyxor Hedge Indices are investable, asset-weighted indices, designed to offer investors straightforward access to hedge fund performance. The indices are based on Lyxor’s managed account platform that covers all the major hedge fund strategies and benefits from a high level of transparency and risk control, while ensuring weekly liquidity.
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Chicago area options trader Gary S Bell with violating short selling restrictions when he failed to locate and deliver the shares involved in short sales to broker-dealers and their institutional customers.
Bell agreed to pay more than USD2 million to settle the SEC’s charges.
According to the SEC’s order instituting administrative proceedings, Bell violated the “locate” and “close out” requirements of Regulation SHO, which require market participants to locate a source of borrowable shares prior to selling short and to deliver those securities by a specified date. Market makers who ensure liquidity in
PerTrac has published the latest version of its Investment Statistics: A Reference Guide. This comprehensive guide provides investors best practices for measuring performance and analysing risk using investment statistics.
Many qualitative factors go into selecting a hedge fund – the manager’s experience, the quality of back-office operations and the funds overall compliance standards to name a few. Equally important are the quantitative factors. The guide discusses in clear, succinct language how to use key investment metrics to evaluate the quantitative aspects of a fund’s performance.
PerTrac’s Investment Statistics: A Reference Guide is intended for investment professionals and explains such
State Street Corporation has appointed Paul McLaughlin (pictured) as head of operations for the firm’s Alternative Investment Solutions team in Guernsey.


McLaughlin, who has more than 15 years of experience in the alternative investment industry, joins State Street to help further build its alternative investment servicing business in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with a particular focus on the private equity and real estate funds sectors.


McLaughlin joins from BNY Mellon in Dublin where he worked for 11 years, most recently as head of alternative investment servicing fund of funds and private equity for EMEA. He also gained experience
Macro Risk Advisors (MRA), a provider of equity derivatives strategy and trade execution for institutional investors, has strengthened its team with the hiring of Michael Buckjune, Ed Lalanne and Frank Trentacoste.
The senior appointments are part of an ongoing expansion effort at MRA to further support its growing client base and meet increasing investor demand for cross-asset risk analysis.
“Michael, Ed and Frank bring deep understanding of risk across multiple markets,” says Dean Curnutt, the founder and CEO of MRA. “Their expertise will give our buy-side clients, including many of the industry’s largest hedge funds, the global risk perspectives they
Willem Sels (pictured), UK Head of Investment Strategy at HSBC Private Bank, on last week’s ECB meeting…
The European Central Bank (ECB) last week provided the expected 0.25% rate cut and came to the rescue of banks, but not Eurozone governments. It gave a big boost to banks, by agreeing to provide longer term liquidity against a broader set of collateral. Senior bonds of better capitalised banks in core Europe may benefit from the ECB’s decision. On the sovereign debt side however, liquidity risks are still substantial.
We do not share Mr Draghi’s view that European governments’ efforts to cap
Hedge funds lost 1.04% in November, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index is down 4.70% in 2011.
“The S&P 500 gained 0.10 per cent during the month, concealing stomach-churning intra-month volatility,” says Sol Waksman (pictured), founder and president of BarclayHedge. “Fears that a European banking system meltdown and a slowing Chinese economy would push the US back into recession drove US stocks down nearly eight per cent during the month, before coordinated government action rallied the markets in the final three days of November.”
Fourteen of Barclay’s 18 hedge fund indices lost ground in
Tim Love and Joaquim Nogueira have both left CQS to join GAM as Investment Director and Investment Manager, respectively.
Love and Nogueira join GAM’s London office to manage a UCITS product in the GAM Star range, an actively-managed long emerging markets equity fund expected to launch in the first quarter of 2012. The fund aims to profit from the inherent growth potential in emerging market economies.
Both join from CQS where they managed a long/short emerging market equity portfolio. Love and Nogueira bring more than 31 years of investment experience to GAM alongside a wealth of region-specific knowledge and a
