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The Hedgeweek USA Award 2011 for Best PR Firm is the latest recognition of Walek & Associates’ dozen years of work successfully managing visibility, reputation and brand for hedge funds around the world.
At a time when the regulatory sands are shifting under fund managers’ feet, and raising capital from investors is getting more competitive, the need to define, differentiate and defend brand position is fundamental for asset management firms of any size.
Walek has consulted with and represented scores of alternative asset management firms, including many members of the so-called billion-dollar club, new and emerging managers, and the business,
Toronto-based Third Eye Capital originates and manages privately-negotiated secured loans to predominantly Canadian small- to mid-cap companies. The firm was established in 2005 by Arif N Bhalwani (pictured) and Dr David G Alexander, who together have more than 50 years’ private market investing experience.
By operating outside the traditional capital markets, Third Eye has established a solid reputation in the private lending space, delivering absolute returns to its investors with low volatility and low correlation to both debt and equity markets. The firm’s investment philosophy is based upon disciplined credit selection, extensive collateral monitoring and active portfolio management.
Third Eye
By Simon Gray – The hedge fund sector in the United States, its cradle and still by a long way its biggest and most important centre, has emerged successfully from the crisis that beset the global financial industry between 2007 and 2009. As Global Fund Media publisher Sunil Gopalan commented at the Hedgeweek USA Awards 2011 in New York on June 16: “These awards celebrate the way in which hedge fund investment advisers and service providers have led the US industry out of the crisis through their expertise, innovation and adaptability.”
Nevertheless, the environment in which fund
Newedge has made several new appointments to its Prime Brokerage Origination & Structuring team in New York and Hong Kong.
Alastair Sclater joins Newedge Prime Brokerage as Regional Head of Origination & Structuring APAC. Based in Hong Kong, Sclater will be responsible for growing Newedge’s equity & synthetic prime brokerage mandates in the region. Sclater will report to Vincent Tournant, Global Head of Origination & Structuring based in London.
Sclater joins from Mizuho Securities where he was head of the Synthetic Prime Brokerage business in Singapore, responsible for Global Sales and Client Servicing. Prior to this role, Sclater spent
Iron Harbor Capital Management has been approved as a Commodity Pool Operator (CPO) by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the National Futures Association. As a registered entity, Iron Harbor must comply with various disclosures, reporting and record-keeping obligations imposed by the CFTC.
“As a registered CPO, we aspire to the highest standards of transparency and integrity,” says Gravelle Pierre, President of Iron Harbor Capital Management.
Jacqueline Hayot, Chief Operating Officer of Iron Harbor, adds: “Instead of filing for an exemption like similar investment advisors, we feel it’s important to signal to institutions and private individuals that we’re
PerTrac has launched new releases of its analytics solutions, PerTrac Analytics 7.2 and PowerLink 1.2. The powerful, new versions handle all data frequency types including daily data for investment analysis, strategy comparison and fund benchmarking.


In response to investors’ increased need to balance risk and liquidity, the investment industry, including alternatives, has been moving to funds that provide daily NAVs. This requires high frequency analysis to access value and liquidity.


“Investors and funds need to be able to analyse daily and weekly data quickly and comprehensively,” says Brendan Dolan (pictured), Co-President of PerTrac. “Our new release handles daily data and
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC’s) Office of General Counsel has issued a no-action letter on June 28, 2011, permitting the offer and sale in the United States of Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Berhad’s futures contract based on the FTSE Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI).
The KLCI is a broad-based, free-float, market-capitalisation-weighted, composite index of 30 highly capitalised and actively traded stocks currently listed on the Main Board of the Bursa Securities Berhad. The Index provides a performance benchmark for the Malaysian equity market. As of May 17, 2011, the total adjusted market capitalisation of the KLCI was approximately USD265 billion.
GlobeOp Financial Services has experienced strong performance during the first half of the year according to the company’s latest trading update.
Assets under Administration (AuA) had grown to USD174 billion1 as at 31 May 2011, an increase of 17% from USD149 billion at 31 December 2010, while the company has continued to add new clients and expand revenues.
Hans Hufschmid, Chief Executive Officer, says: "GlobeOp’s performance during the first half of 2011 has been strong. Revenues, adjusted operating profit and net income have all continued to grow. Assets under Administration increased to a record total of USD174 billion as at
New York and London-based Revere Capital Advisors has appointed John Mackin as its Global Head of Marketing and Business Development. Mackin will lead a four member global team seeking to build relationships with investors that share a strategic interest in emerging managers.
With over 20 years of experience in the investment management industry, Mackin has spent the last eight years leading the new business development efforts for smaller and emerging hedge fund strategies at Threadneedle Investments, Arklow Capital, Highland Capital, Pardus Capital and Protégé Partners. From 1997 to 2003, John was a senior member of the Institutional Marketing team at
Moody’s Investors Service has released a report addressing investors’ frequently asked questions on the rating agency’s approach to analysing and rating so-called "dim-sum" and synthetic Renminbi bonds from Chinese companies – bonds issued outside China, typically in Hong Kong, but denominated in Chinese currency, the Renminbi (RMB).
An earlier Moody’s report, published on 19 January 2011 and entitled "The Current Menu for Renminbi Bonds in Hong Kong: Dim Sum or Synthetic?", provided background commentary on this evolving bond market in Hong Kong.
The lead author of today’s report, Ivan Chung, a Moody’s vice president in Hong Kong, says: "We follow
