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NS Partners, which manages or administers some CHF11 billion in assets across wealth management, discretionary and advisory management, and a ManCo offering, has chosen MJ Hudson’s RiskMonitor platform to provide a customisable Liquidity Stress Testing solution.
The collaboration between NS Partners and MJ Hudson enables independent stress-testing and enhanced liquidity risk oversight via the RiskMonitor Liquidity solution which tests whether funds can satisfy redemption terms based on multiple stress and redemption scenarios.
The platform handles complex underlying assets and delivers board friendly reporting to support compliance with regulations and internal governance requirements.
Man Group has named chief operating officer (COO), head of ESG, and general counsel Robyn Grew as its new president. Grew succeeds Shanta Puchtler, who is retiring, according to a report by Pension and Investments.
The report cites an internal memo signed by Man Group CEO Luke Ellis for the information. As part of her appointment, New York-based Grew will assume responsibility for both Man Solutions, which creates and runs customised cross-engine investment programmes across the group’s five investment units, as well as Man FRM, Man Group’s hedge fund investment business.
Central trading and bank relationships, including those with prime
SkyBridge Capital, the investment firm founded by Anthony Scaramuci, is to launch a new fund focused on investments in Web3 and the cryptocurrency space, according to a report by BusinessInsider.
A new report released today by Managed Funds Association highlights the important role of hedge fund investments in the overall portfolio of educational endowments. The report, titled “Allocations and Endowment Returns,” shows that university endowments that invest more in hedge funds as part of a long-term strategy achieve higher returns.
Findings from the report show that an average university with a $5 billion endowment and a 10% allocation to hedge funds earns nearly $240 million more over five years than an endowment with no allocation to hedge funds.
Actively managed portfolios, like those by hedge fund managers, provide an essential
Hong Kong-based Kaizen Capital Partners’ flagship fund, the Kaizen Asia Pacific Master Fund, gained over 15% in the first six months of the year, partly on bets on China stocks, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The fund is reported by unnamed sources to have notched up a return of over 8 per cent in June alone on the back of both long and short bets across the Asia-Pacific region and has now made money every years since it started trading in 2020.
Kaizen’s chief investment officer Ramesh Karthigesu, a former Marshal Wace portfolio manager, and the firm’s chief executive
Artisan Partners has launched the Artisan Emerging Markets Local Opportunities Strategy and related UCITS Fund.
The strategy is managed by the Artisan Partners EMsights Capital Group, led by Portfolio Manager Michael Cirami, CFA, Head of Global Trading Michael O’Brien, CFA, and Portfolio Manager Sarah Orvin, CFA. Cirami will serve as Lead Portfolio Manager and Orvin will serve as Portfolio Manager for the strategy. The team also manages the Artisan Global Unconstrained and Artisan Emerging Markets Debt Opportunities Strategies.
Each of the team’s three strategies offer broad exposure to the global and emerging markets debt asset classes, which consist of more
Despite a volatile market environment, EEX Group achieved volume increases in the majority of its asset classes during the first half of 2022, providing a “safe haven” for the market. This applied particularly to the European natural gas markets.
In the European power markets the trend towards cleared volume has been increased significantly – with EEX gaining market share in an overall declining market. Clearing is a secure way to mitigate counterparty risk and the cross-margining effects across the power, gas and further markets allow participants to conserve liquidity as “only” the net position is considered for margining.
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Following its recent Annual General Meeting (8 July), the Jersey Funds Association (JFA) has elected a new-look committee as it continues to champion Jersey’s ecosystem for alternative funds.
Hedge funds are investing an increasing amount of time, effort and money into dealing with legislation requirements, with new Hedgeweek research charting the extent that larger managers are leaning into recruitment and smaller managers into outsourcing.
SkyBridge Capital, the investment firm founded by Anthony Scaramuci, has halted withdrawals from Legion Strategies, one of its smaller funds with £230 million in assets, following a steep fall in both stocks and cryptocurrencies, according to a report by Bloomberg.
