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Firms falling within the remit of the FCA’s new Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR) cannot afford to be passive. They need to set themselves on the right path now if they are to meet the January 2022 compliance deadline. Some firms have a long road ahead as the new rules mean a ten-fold rise in their capital requirements.
“This regulation is meant to simplify the current regime,” explains Priya Mehta, Head of FCA Advisory and Regulatory Reporting Services, Buzzacott. “At the moment, we have multiple versions of these regulations which worked together and have been imposed on different types of
By A Paris – January 2022 may seem far away but the preparations financial services firms in the UK need to make to comply with the incoming Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR) are considerable and they need to think about it now, if they haven’t done so already. The new rules are going to usher in significant change for a large swathe of firms active in the UK market.
Though there are no industry-wide statistics on how many firms have set plans in motion to ensure compliance, a poll taken during a webinar organised by Wolters Kluwer in April 2021, found 11 percent of attendees
In this podcast, Alex Botte (pictured), CFA, CAIA, Client Solutions Research at Two Sigma and Venn, discusses what impact Covid-19 has had on the way risk is perceived, modelled, and ultimately managed within investor portfolios. And how next generation AI tools are helping to generate fresh insights on how factor risks are understood. During the discussion, Alex provides some examples of how Venn thinks about managing inflation risk exposures, crypto asset risk exposures, and what the latest developments are on translating ESG considerations into risk factor decomposition.
SIGTech, a provider of quant trading technology for global investment managers, has won a major contract from MasterLink Securities, headquartered in Taiwan, and one of the two leading security dealers in the country. MasterLink will use SIGTech to drive its new systematic trading proposition for US and Asian equities.
MasterLink Securities, which also has offices in Hong Kong, China, provides a range of brokerage, securities underwriting and proprietary trading services to clients.
Increasingly, global investment managers are moving towards computer-driven and rules-based investing. This trend can be seen across Asia and SIGTech is well-placed to service the growing demand for
Kairos Investment Management Ltd, the London-based subsidiary of Kairos Group and Engadine Partners LLP, a London-based independent asset manager specialised in offering alternative investment solutions, are to sign a cooperation agreement aimed at strengthening and leveraging their investment expertise and distribution networks.
Through this cooperation, Kairos will strengthen the business of Kairos Investment Management Ltd, the Group’s subsidiary specialised in the management of alternative funds, thereby also enhancing its European long-short offering. Marcello Sallusti, founder of Engadine Partners, will become Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Kairos Investment Management Ltd while retaining his responsibilities as CIO of the current Engadine
Fund oversight and governance provider INDOS Financial, now part of JTC Group, has appointed Clay Dupuy to lead its expanding outsourced Anti-Money Laundering (AML) Officer team.
Dupuy will operate from INDOS’s Ireland offices in Enniscorthy (Co. Wexford) and will be responsible for the teams which provide AML Officers to funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands, Ireland, and Luxembourg.
A graduate of the University of Florida, and of the Business Schools of the Universities of Dublin and Manchester, Dupuy was an AML specialist at BNY Mellon Fund Services (Ireland) until June 2019. He joins INDOS Financial from consultants KB Associates where
SS&C Technologies Holdings has announced that the gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for May 2021 measured 0.54 per cent.
Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.33 per cent in June.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index for June 2021 was 0.33 per cent, reflecting positive net flows into hedge funds. On a year-over-year basis, this result was essentially in line with the flows reported a year ago of 0.35 per cent,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “Year-to-date net flows are positive and running ahead
Cryptocurrencies continue to face considerable counterparty and exchange risk, which threatens to turn away larger institutional investors from the market – and industry participants say more should be done to bridge the infrastructure gap between digital and traditional assets.
Man Group’s chief investment officer Sandy Rattray (pictured) is retiring from his role at the London-based publicly-traded global asset management and hedge fund group.
In a new white paper, Merrill Sepehrnia, Head of Total Return Sustainability at Pictet Asset Management, explains why hedge funds are well placed to uncover ESG issues and help drive the ESG agenda forward.
He argues that while “sustainable investment is usually associated with a long-term, buy and hold approach, hedge funds are arguably at least as well-placed as their long-only peers in using environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors to construct portfolios. Their ability to go long and short can be a considerable advantage. Not least when it comes to holding companies to account for poor governance.
“Indeed,
