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Deutsche Bank releases 2014 Alternative Investment Survey highlighting key trends shaping the hedge fund industry
February 18, 2014-Deutsche Bank today releases its twelfth annual Alternative Investor Survey, which stands as one of the largest and longest standing hedge fund investor surveys available. This year over 400 investor entities participated, representing over $1.8 trillion in hedge fund assets and over two thirds of the entire market by assets under management (AuM).
Barry Bausano, Co-head of Global Prime Finance at Deutsche Bank, said: "Hedge funds continue to establish their growing position within the broader asset management industry, alongside some of the more mainstream asset managers. The hedge fund industry is predicted to reach a record $3 trillion by 2014 year end driven by significant inflows, most notably from institutional investors."
Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the new study is the first to show that personal financial risk preferences fluctuate substantially, and these fluctuations may be linked to hormone response.
Source: Scienceagogo.com
Latest ETFs leave index-trackers in the dust
"The toolbox of products that are available to investors in the U.S. and Canada have grown phenomenally over the past couple years,” says Deborah Fuhr, partner and co-founder of Britain-based ETFGI LLP. Her company researches and consults on a database of 4,700 exchange traded products
Source: The Globe and Mail
UPDATE 2-Vitol CEO injects urgency into Brent Benchmark debate
The comments by Vitol Chief Executive Ian Taylor add urgency to a long-running debate about Brent, which critics have said is vulnerable to manipulation. European authorities last year started a probe into suspected manipulation of oil prices.
Source: Reuters
A wobble, but market-tracker funds on course for growth
Long used by banks and other institutions, exchange-traded products (ETPs-which let investors track a range of underlying markets for a small fraction of the fees charged by managed funds-are increasingly being sold to cost-conscious retail savers in a move helped along by regulatory change.
Source: Reuters
'Golden anchor' drags down ETF Securities
Following his return in December from a round-the-world sailing voyage, Mark Weeks has resumed the responsibilities of chief executive. He has promised that ETF Securities will develop a business model that is less dependent on gold.
Source: FT.com
Big four fund groups summoned to talks over size
Such classification would subject the four managers to much greater scrutiny and require costly changes to their operating models.
Source: FT.com
KCG Releases January 2014 Trade Volumes
In Market Making, KCG averaged $28.0 billion dollar volume traded, 8.4 billion shares traded, and 4.1 million trades per day in U.S. equities.
In Global Execution Services:
Source: KCG
DECPG Weekly Brief -February 14, 2014
In a further positive development, recent
business sentiment indicators generally point to strengthening activity in developing countries.
Developing-country currencies came under downward pressure in January
amid a generalized correction in global equity markets. Changing market
sentiment towards the end of January led to a sizeable retrenchment of global
equity markets, with both high-income and developing country markets
seeing losses of around 6 percent between January 21 and February 5. The
sell-off was provoked by a 16 percent devaluation of the Argentine peso, and
resulted in rising exchange-rate pressures on a number of emerging
economies. While 45 percent of developing country currencies lost more than
1 percent against the US dollar, a majority of them were stable or even
appreciated. More recently, Kazakhstan devaluated its exchange rate by
around 20 percent against the dollar after seeing a rapid contraction in
foreign reserves and under the influence of a weak Russian ruble. Currencies
in Ukraine and Ghana also lost significant ground, despite the introduction of
currency controls to limit capital outflows. The Turkish lira was initially hard
hit, but an aggressive tightening of monetary policy later stabilized it. Market
pressures seem to have abated in recent days.
Source: World Bank
February 17, 2014--Oh, how exchange traded funds have changed. ETFs have evolved from simple securities that track indexes to complicated "smart beta" structures designed to outsmart the index.
Dwindling supply underpinning Brent is "major problem"
Platts says more crudes may be needed in 2-5 years
New Brent tweaks announced by Platts, starting in June
February 17, 2014--The Brent crude global oil benchmark needs fundamental and immediate reform due to dwindling North Sea output, the world's biggest oil trader said on Monday.
February 17, 2014--Sharp withdrawals from equity, currency and commodity tracking funds as emerging markets sold off in early 2014 looks no more than a bump in the road for such vehicles as they expand their share of assets under management.
February 16, 2014--ETF Securities wants to chart a different course this year, following a tough 2013 when the big sell-off in gold weighed heavily on the commodities-focused fund manager.
February 16, 2014--BlackRock, Fidelity, Pimco and Vanguard were summoned to meet global regulators in London last week to discuss whether large asset managers should be considered as systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs).
February 14, 2014--KCG Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: KCG) today released trade volumes for the month of January 2014.
Agency-based algorithmic and EMS trade volumes through Knight Direct and GETAlpha averaged an aggregate 272.4 million shares traded per day in U.S. equities
February 14, 2014--Several developing country currencies have depreciated since the start of the year, but a majority remained stable under
renewed market pressures. Despite the market turbulence, gross capital flows to developing countries picked-up in
January, driven by record volumes of sovereign and corporate bond issuances.
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