AI Hedge Awards 2017

Acquisition International - Hedge Fund Awards 2017 47 Acquire Media Allard Partners Limited Best Hedge Fund Multimedia News Provider 2017 Best Asia Absolute Return Investment Manager & Best Long Only Asian Equities Fund (5 Years): Allard Growth Fund AcquireMedia Allard Partners Reliable. Relevant. Fast. These three words often represent the top requirements for hedge fund clients and our ability to consistently meet and exceed their expectations is why they work with Acquire Media. Allard Partners is an absolute return investment manager focused solely on Asia. We invited Joanne Moore, Head of Client Relations, to tell us more. Company: Acquire Media Email: [email protected] Web: www.acquiremedia.com Address: 3 Becker Farm Road, Suite 401, Roseland, NJ 07068 Company: Allard Partners Email: [email protected] Web: www.allardpartners.com Address: Suite 3208-3209, 32/F Alexandra House, 18 Chater Road, Central, Hong Kong Phone: +852 2526 9168 HF170026 HF170074 Working primarily with hedge funds engaged in the U.S. equity markets, these firms utilize Acquire Media’s news solutions for two primary functions. Firstly, to drive their risk management operations and secondly, to fuel their trading models in the hunt for alpha. In both of these areas, Acquire Media becomes the vendor of choice for reliability, relevance, and speed. While most hedge funds have similar objectives, how they reach them is a unique process. Successful hedge funds spend a great deal of time and resources into developing their strategies and modeling. It is important to have a vendor that will take the time to understand the complexities of the client’s operations and create a solution that can fit into their workflow. Acquire Media offers flexible formatting and delivery options that can plug and play into most environments. Delivery methods include robust APIs, secure internet connections, and colocation options within key datacenters while formatting ranges from standard XML to machine readable formats. In the cases where the firm’s standard offerings are not sufficient, we will work with clients to create a custom solution. Clients rely on the content technology experts at Acquire Media to consistently deliver. Established in 1995, Allard Partners is a boutique investment manager focused solely on Asia, with a primary objective to grow its clients’ wealth over the long term. Joanne outlines the firm’s approach in the APAC region and how their dedicated and professional team strives to deliver on the valued trust their clients have placed in them. “Here at Allard Partners, our team, which is based on-the-ground in the Asia Pacific region, uses proprietary research to build a high conviction, benchmark agnostic portfolio of investments in quality businesses at disciplined prices. We co-invest alongside our clients – many of whom are HNWIs or families in Europe, North America and Australia seeking sustainable absolute returns. Acquire Media boasts an extensive content catalog to meet the diverse needs of our hedge fund clients with a comprehensive list of press releases, financial newswires, rumor wires, regulatory releases, Twitter feeds and more from the industry’s most trusted sources. By selecting the content to meet their needs, clients can then begin to filter the news for the information to drive critical decision-making using Acquire Media’s exclusive taxonomy. Fundamentally, whilst relevancy and reliability are clearly important factors in choosing a vendor these characteristics are useless if the service is not fast. In today’s markets, speed is paramount. The ability plan and execute within milliseconds or even microseconds can make all the difference. Acquire Media operates in real-time with parallel processing programs that deliver information with value add but without impacting speed. Leveraging the latest in network technologies to maximize speed whether systems are in the same datacenter or across the internet gives Acquire Media high marks over its competitors and marks it out as the best possible option for clients. Due to a combination of the emerging nature of the markets we invest in and fast development and adoption of new technologies, we are mindful that a long term view cannot be a static one. The challenges and opportunities created by a rapidly changing operating environment and consumer mean that we must continually assess the sustainability of the businesses and industries we invest in and execute accordingly. As a team, we also place strong emphasis on collaboration to leverage the collective knowledge we have accumulated over the 21 years we have been investing in the region. We continue to believe in the long term growth story of developing Asia, remain energized by the challenging work involved and committed to our long-standing and loyal investor base.”