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Marto Capital is to offer its liquid macro strategy through Kettera Strategies’ Hydra, a managed account marketplace for macro, commodities, and liquid equity hedge fund strategies.
Marto was founded by Katina Stefanova, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, together with a group of senior executives, many of whom worked together at Bridgewater Associates. Marto’s “Liquid Macro” program is a quantitative, fundamental-based global macro strategy driven by asset class and country-specific bottom-up models allocating risk across foreign exchange, interest rates, equities, and commodities.
Kettera’s Hydra marketplace is a global platform giving investors access to established and emerging alternative asset managers
Watson Wheatley Financial Systems, specialists in securities reconciliation software, has launched Reconciliation as a Service, which is now live with its first client; a large emerging markets equities asset manager.
The service is heavily automated, bounded by strict SLA’s and provides regular reporting for oversight of the process. Watson Wheatley is looking to further automate the process which will allow faster data delivery, higher match rates and overall cost savings for the client.
The service is designed to save on manpower while still providing the best practice reconciliation which is a cornerstone of Watson Wheatley’s offerings. A full audit
SS&C Technologies, a provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, today announced that innovative alternative asset manager, Global Merces, has selected SS&C Technologies’ investment accounting, asset servicing and mutual fund platforms, HiPortfolio and HiTrust.
The expanded solution addresses a key demand by Australian boutique fund managers – the ability to leverage proven platforms and fully service the Australian fund management sector. Global Merces says it selected HiTrust’s unit registry and pricing solution because it offered the fastest time-to-value implementation and is fully integrated with SS&C’s investment accounting platform, HiPortfolio.
“From the outset, we were impressed with SS&C’s deep
Publicis.Sapient has been selected by the European DataWarehouse (ED) to build the first securitisation repository under the new EU regulation for Simple, Transparent and Standardised (STS) securitisations, expected to take effect in 2019.
ED is the designated European repository for loan-level data stemming from Asset Backed Securities (ABS). It was established under the European Central Bank’s loan-level initiative in 2012. Publicis.Sapient has been the implementation partner of ED since the very beginning. Today, more than 500 issuers, investors, central banks and other data users utilise ED’s data infrastructure.
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is changing the regulatory
Abacus Group, a managed service provider of hosted IT solutions for alternative investment firms has expanded and customised its use of Thycotic’s Secret Server for more than 350 clients to date.
“Managing up to 3,000 passwords for privileged access daily “would be impossible without an automated solution such as Secret Server,” says Paul Ponzeka, Managing Director of Engineering at Abacus.
Thycotic Secret Server software enables enterprises to discover, store, secure and manage privileged account passwords while streamlining the management process. As Abacus Group accelerated its growth adding more and more clients, Secret Server proved its value in scalability, flexibility and
Centaur Fund Services, an independent fund administrator, has expanded its US footprint with the opening of a new office in Fair Lawn, New Jersey.
This expansion is in response to the growing demand for independent fund administration solutions from North American hedge and private equity funds.
Centaur has also hired two industry specialists who will work closely with Centaur US CEO, Des Johnson, to lead the US operations.
Mase Kazemi joins Centaur as Head of Fund Accounting for Centaur US. Mase brings more than 12 years of experience in management positions in Portfolio Accounting and Operations. Leslie Dewhurst, who
A new foundation focused on using a blockchain protocol to track and measure impact investing has been created by Dr Shaun Conway, a medical doctor and former adviser to the World Health Organisation.
Impact investing is rapidly growing in popularity, with USD114 billion worth of impact investing assets under management according to a recent survey by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).
Conway explains that he has been working on the ixo foundation concept for the past 10 years, the protocol for the past five years and then he founded the ixo foundation just under a year ago.
Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services (NTHFS) is to utilise Donnelley Financial Solutions’ ArcReporting to automate the creation, review and output of financial statements for clients, including alternative investment managers and large institutional investors.
ArcReporting is a software solution designed to manage the increasing challenges and mitigate the risks associated with producing financial reports. Under the agreement, ArcReporting provides a streamlined approach to data aggregation and processing of year-end financial statements for NTHFS clients. The solution also includes enhanced systematic controls such as consistency validations across multiple sets of financial statements, audit trails for changes and version controls.
“Northern Trust
NaviCom International Investment, a New York and Hong Kong-based provider of wealth management and alternative investment solutions, has extended its technology platform to provide private investors with entry-level access to alternative solutions that are typically reserved for institutions and ultra-high-net-worth investors.
While entry-level capital requirements have been reduced to align with the capabilities of individual investors, accreditation requirements will continue to apply on a case-by-case basis.
“Alternative investments are an important aspect of how we allocate assets across our private investor portfolios. We have experienced an increase in exposure to alternatives as private investors begin to shift a percentage of
Specialist insurance provider, CFC, has launched its first insurance solution for financial institutions. CFC’s Investment Management Insurance (IMI) policy is the first in a suite of products designed to address the challenging risk environment faced by investment managers.
Combining its heritage in cyber and technology insurance with expertise in financial institutions, CFC’s IMI product knits together the traditional cover that investment managers require with comprehensive cover for emerging risks including cyber and kidnap and ransom, into a single policy.
Cover is provided for management liability, professional liability, crime, and regulatory investigations, and cyber coverage can be easily added on
