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Ipreo, a provider of workflow solutions and market intelligence to financial services and corporate professionals, has hired Stephen Grady as managing director, head of market structure and strategy.
Grady comes to Ipreo with more than 20 years of industry experience, most recently at Legal & General Investment Management, where he was head of LGIM's global trading team.
Prior to LGIM, Grady was global head of dealing and sales trading at Barclays Wealth. Previously, Grady was head of global dealing for Fortis Investments based in Paris.
He will be based in London.
"Having had the opportunity to
One of the clearest messages that came out of CAIS 2017 was that the world is changing in innumerable ways that have the capacity to shock and destabilise. One only has to refer recently, to Brexit and the outcome of the US presidential election, to appreciate that uncertainty is the only known certainty to contend with in an ever more complex, interconnected world.
As KPMG's Cowell said, headline risk seems to dominate decision making: "It's unlikely that markets will be able to deliver on expectations. Turbulence in China and uncertainty in US markets is causing an institutional shift in investing.
The alternatives industry has a duty to not only defy gravity and deliver strong returns, but to do so in a way that can genuinely change the world for the better, inspiring the next generation of star managers and investors.
Cognisant of its importance, CAIS 2017 focused on philanthropy and impact investing and emerged as key themes among panellists. It demonstrated a collective vision of responsible investing in new technologies and energy initiatives, to make the world a better place. And a commitment to philanthropic endeavours to bring people out of poverty, not just in the developing world, but first
One of the most significant forces of change in the global alternatives industry over the last five to ten years has been the plethora of technological advances. Never has Moore's Law, which argues that the processing power of computers doubles every two years, been more evident. This has come at a time when the gravitational pull of market regulation has stretched fund managers to breaking point, not just operationally but from a cost of compliance perspective.
Technology has been a saviour, allowing fund managers to effectively outsource all non-core investment functions as software providers have developed comprehensive cloud platform solutions;
There was no shortage of idea generation when it came to discussing the various ways alternative fund managers are trying to overcome the gravitational effects of market forces in a bid to boost returns.
As markets begin to normalise, fundamental-focused active fund managers are seeing more opportunities to trade both long and short, while credit markets are offering opportunities, especially for those pursuing relative value strategies to profit from tightening spread ratios between investment grade and high yield corporate bonds.
But this is no time for managers to rest on their laurels. The alternatives industry, as a whole, remains vibrant but
If one were to draw a planetary parallel to the chaos that central bank intervention has caused in global markets over the last five years, then Jupiter, and specifically its Great Red Spot, would be appropriate.
"Eight years after the financial crisis, the world suffers from a debt hangover. Globally we are approaching the limits of monetary policy and the battle of the balance sheet is now becoming the battle for the consumer – customisation is king," says KPMG's Anthony Cowell, when speaking to Hedgeweek at CAIS 2017.
Quantitative easing and a central bank obsession with supporting the global economy
Defying Gravity: The Future of Alternative Investments in Exceptional Times. This was the theme at the fourth Cayman Alternative Investment Summit, hosted by Dart Enterprises at the stunning, recently opened Kimpton Seafire Resort & Spa on Grand Cayman.
Featuring a stellar cast of panellists from leading institutional investment groups, alternative fund management groups, economists, philanthropists and academics, the two-day event explored the many forces working against the alternatives industry – the challenges and opportunities that managers face and how they must defy gravity, to take the industry into a higher orbit.
"With rapid technological changes and major geopolitical shifts around
Go Capital has held the first closing of Go Capital Amorçage II, a EUR60 million venture capital fund.
The first Go Capital seed fund of EUR57 million was launched in 2012, at the initiative of the Regional Councils of the western France, with the support of Bpifrance (through the French state-owned Seed Fund FNA), the European Investment Fund and a regional bank partner.
It has just closed its investment period with 25 equity investments in innovative start-ups.
Out of this first seed fund, over EUR60 million was invested into multiple start-ups, both by the fund and in co-investments
Apex Fund Services has partnered with DataGuidance to enhance the group’s data protection and data privacy programme.
Apex will use DataGuidance’s suite of privacy tools to receive research and intelligence on privacy legislation.
Apex will benefit from up-to-date information available for all jurisdictions and where a dedicated local Apex data protection officer is monitoring any change in legislation and its transposition by the local markets.
Sonja Maria Hilkhuijsen (pictured), global head of compliance, Apex Fund Services, says: “The use of the DataGuidance privacy platform across the group is evidence of Apex’s strong commitment to upholding the highest levels
Campbell Lutyens, a global alternative asset advisory firm focused on fund placement and secondary transactions, has added Wayne Kozun to its advisory board.
Kozun was until recently a senior vice president at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board where his various responsibilities included management of OTPP’s global public equities portfolio, the relationship investing team and the direct long term private equity investing team.
He co-chaired OTPP’s responsible investment committee and was responsible for the opening of OTPP’s Asian office in Hong Kong in 2013. He joined OTPP in 1995.
Kozun serves on the boards of the Pacific Pension &
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