07 Oct 2013
ESMA guidelines make risk stats mandatory requirement for AIFMD reporting
Investor Analytics sees ESMA’s recently updated guidelines as firmly placing risk statistics like value-at-risk and sensitivity analysis as…
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FINMA investigating possible manipulation of foreign currency exchange rates
FINMA, the Swiss financial regulator, is currently conducting investigations into several Swiss financial institutions in connection with…
Kinetic Partners offers background checks on fund managers
Kinetic Partners is now offering a global background checking service to complement its investor led fund, fund manager and service…
06 Oct 2013
ESMA AIFM guidelines far from clear
Glynn Barwick (pictured), regulatory lawyer and counsel for Goodwin Procter LLP's Financial Services Practice in London, comments on the…
Global fund asset inflows reached EUR109billion in Q2 says new EFAMA report… Alternative UCITS make a 0.65 per cent gain in September…
Alternative UCITS funds made advances of 0.65 per cent in September to leave them exactly +2 per cent on a year-to-date basis, according to…
04 Oct 2013
CBOE’s SPXpm options set new daily volume record
Trading volume in CBOE’s SPXpm – S&P 500 Index options that are PM-settled – established an all-time daily volume record this week as…
ConvergEx Group makes two senior hires for global portfolio and ETF execution
ConvergEx Group, a provider of global brokerage and trading-related services, has appointed Oliver Bailly as a senior vice president and…
Global Prime Partners to offer Liquid platform to hedge fund clients
Global Prime Partners is to offer Liquid Group’s Liquid platform to its portfolio of existing European clients as well as all new prime…
HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index up 0.96 per cent in September
Hedge funds posted gains in September with the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index up 0.96 per cent and the HFRX Market Directional Index up 2.23…
Northern Trust names Bruce Tang to alternatives group
Northern Trust has appointed Bruce Tang to the Northern Trust Alternatives Group hedge fund of funds team as a research analyst and vice…
All seven IndexIQ hedge fund replication indices positive in September
All seven of IndexIQ’s proprietary family of hedge fund replication and alternative beta indexes recorded positive returns in…
03 Oct 2013
Asian institutional investors keep faith in hedge fund investments… UBS O’Connor to open Asia-focused hedge fund to external investors
UBS O’Connor is preparing to open its first Asia-focused hedge fund to external investors later this year reported Bloomberg News,…
DTCC acquires 100 per cent of Omgeo
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has completed its 100% acquisition of Omgeo.By leveraging both companies’…
The Carlyle Group closes EUR335m European CLO
Alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group has closed a EUR335m collateralised loan obligation (CLO) fund, the firm’s second new-issue CLO…
Credit Suisse LAB Index up 1.39 per cent in September
The Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta (LAB) Index was up 1.39% in September with all bar one of the sub strategies recording positive…
