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Elliott Investment Management, the activist hedge fund firm run by Paul Singer, has built a sizeable holding in utility owner PPL Corp and is helping to shape the company’s new business plan, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Apex Group Ltd, a global financial services provider, has acquired Pacific Fund Systems, a global fund administration software business serving open and closed ended traditional and alternative funds, including hedge funds and private equity investment vehicles, from co-founders and Pollen Street Capital.
Options Technology, a capital markets services provider, has partnered with Tools for Brokers following a successful integration with recently acquired ACTIV Financial’s ACTIV application programming interface (API).
It’s nearly a year since the ICARA regime was first introduced in the UK by the FCA, replacing the ICAAP framework that was part of the previous prudential regime.
With the increasing popularity of alternative investments, in particular in the areas of private equity, private debt and real estate, we have witnessed that there is more demand in realising such investments via Luxembourg alternative investment fund structures (the “AIFs”) by international eligible investors. In the EU, AIFs were introduced by the Alternative Investment Fund Manager Directive (Directive 2011/61/EU, the “AIFM Directive”), which regulates managers of funds other than those under the Undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities Directive (Directive 2009/65/EC).
The alternative investment industry is developing new ways of sharing data across the whole value chain – from portfolio companies and holdings to funds and investors – and from asset servicers to asset managers and asset owners. Luxembourg, as a fund domicile, has been building its niche of expertise in this space and evolving to better serve the whole eco-system as the appeal of particular asset classes continues to grow.
Luxembourg’s alternative investment fund sector has grown significantly, with fund numbers rising from 4,568 in 2018 to 6,932 in 2021. More specifically, the private debt and real estate segments have experienced upticks in light of growing investor appetite for these assets, driven by the current market turbulence and uncertain environment.
In a crowded market where fund-raising is challenging, hedge fund managers need to make sure they are clearly articulating their investment story. Professional supporting materials to get their thesis across to potential investors are also critical to raising funds. Strategic partnerships are also becoming more common in the industry as hedge fund managers look to leverage the distribution power of larger, more traditional money managers.
Millennium has recruited Jack Tang as a senior credit strategist based in New York, according to a report by eFinancialCareers. Tang joins from JPMorgan where he spent over a decade and was an MD and head of several quantitative research teams including credit trading and public finance.
Vlado Spasov, a managing director at Blackstone Inc, has become the latest executive to depart the alternative asset manager’s hedge fund division, according to a report by Bloomberg.
