Asset management
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DGAM Unique Strategies Fund: Diversified Global Asset Management (DGAM)
The DGAM Unique Strategies, named best specialist fund of hedge funds over three years at the Americas Awards 2013, seeks real diversification in complex and unusual hedge fund strategies
Insurers spur changes in commercial real estate loan market
Firms cherry-pick opportunities as they step in to fill the hole opened by capital-strapped banks
Agency desks hopeful new protocol will solve Dodd-Frank issues
A preliminary protocol to enable four-way FX prime brokerage involving agency desks has been agreed ‘in principle’ and could allow agencies to scale up their activities, having been largely reduced to spot since May
UK insurers ‘in limbo’ as HMRC reviews tax break for perpetual debt
Consultation undermines level playing field between banks and insurers on capital issuance
Newedge research shows CTA capacity concerns overblown
Research from Newedge suggests growth in assets will have muted impact on CTA performance
Mixed picture emerges on hedge fund fee structures
Hedge fund management fees on average are rising while incentive fees fall. However, FoHF performance fees are rising as management fees drop, according to a fee structure study by eVestment
EM currency turmoil reflected in hedge fund performance and flows
Institutional investors may start pulling back from emerging market-focused hedge funds as performance figures in July show a mixed story for the sector as a whole. Flows have slowed significantly
Deconstructing hedge funds: book provides a useful guide
Hedge fund lawyer Timothy Spangler offers a comprehensive guide to the what, why and how of hedge funds and private equity for the uninitiated in his debut book, One Step Ahead, published in September
US insurers overhaul lapse risk assumptions
Switch to predictive models to provide better understanding of risk
Bail-in tool required to resolve systemic insurers, says Bank of England
UK supervisor needs extended powers to fulfil FSB attributes for resolution of systemic institutions
Ada expands EM footprint with Behavior Capital merger
A pair of research-focused hedge fund managers are merging their operations to create a global emerging markets platform
Cat bond ‘lite’ structures raise contamination risk and insolvency fears
Investors and lawyers voice concerns about using segregated accounts structure to issue streamlined cat bond instruments
Single-name CDS clearing held up by fears over SEC regime
Temporary rules for portfolio margining by clients are set to expire in December. Hedge funds say they will stay on the sidelines until they know what happens next
Divergence fears over insurer resolution proposals
Scope of Financial Stability Board proposals to give supervisors extended powers ‘unclear’
Insurers developing internal model risk calibrations for non-standard credit assets
Underlines growing strategic importance of infrastructure bonds and MBS, finds survey
Q&A: NAIC's CEO and president on group supervision, systemic risk and captives
The standard-setters
Insurers prepare for interest rate hikes
Rate of relief
Global insurer systemic risk proposals stoke controversy
Saving the system
Longevity risk under Solvency II
Longevity risk under Solvency II
Hedge funds need to tackle insider trading perception
Avoiding greater fools
NAIC calls for coordination of US and international systemic risk regimes
Financial Stability Board's G-Sii regime should be consistent with US Sifi rules, says NAIC chief