Category Archives: Alternative Investments

Apollo liquidity Jan 2012

Posted on April 30, 2012 by admin

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Apollo liquidity 2011 analysis

Posted on February 10, 2012 by admin

through a very difficult year for active managers, αpolloTM liquidity, our hedge fund model portfolio exhibited slightly disappointing performances, experiencing its first negative year ever… Apollo Liquidity 2011

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Happy New Year

Posted on January 15, 2012 by admin

New Year 2012

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Extracts on the need to establish proper Risk Management Governance and keeping it up to date

Posted on December 22, 2011 by admin

We continue the publication of extracts of the ESMA AIFMD level 2 document released late November. We are happy to discuss further the implications of that document. feel free to contact us! AIFMD level 2 on the need to establish … Continue reading →

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AIFMD Level 2 – permanent risk management function

Posted on December 2, 2011 by admin

ESMA has released their comments on the AIFMD and we continue to release extracts that we find important and relevant to our area of focus: risk. as you will see, the AIFMD gives an important place to an independent permanent risk management … Continue reading →

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AIFMD – level 2- some high level principles

Posted on November 22, 2011 by admin

As some of you might probably be aware Level 2 for AIFMD has been released. We intend to publish extract we believe are the more relevant to our business and to the themes we have been promoting since we were … Continue reading →

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Suitability at the heart of the wealth management reform

Posted on November 9, 2011 by admin

Coutts is fined on comments from the FSA on suitability reminds of the necessity to research on documents investments, not only at inception but throughout its life

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FSA Approval of directors: a note from the friendly OWL

Posted on October 17, 2011 by admin

Regulatory Guidance for Non-Executive Directors Objective The objective of the service is to assist NEDs to obtain the necessary FSA approval for their role, to enable NEDs to fulfil their responsibilities with skill and confidence and to reduce the risk … Continue reading →

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αpollo liquidity – September update

Posted on October 14, 2011 by admin

as you may know, part of our activities cover the structuring of alternative investment portfolios. Attached to this post is the September fact sheet of a paper portfolio we run according to our investment philosophy. We will post its performance … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 22, 2011 by admin

I attended on the 20th an NAPF conference in London on investments for Pension Funds. One of the topic touched upon was Infrastructure investing. The theoretical value of these investments need not be listed again. Let’s just mention their capacity … Continue reading →

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