Articles and Features

New hedge fund launches rose at year end 2012, narrowly trailing total launches for 2011 as total hedge fund industry assets increased to a record of USD2.25trn, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Industry Report. »

CBOE Holdings and S&P Dow Jones Indices have finalised an amendment to their license agreement that extends Chicago Board Options Exchange's (CBOE) exclusive rights to list security options contracts based on certain indices calculated and published by S&P Dow Jones Indices through 2032, and non-exclusive rights through 2033. »

While many market observers are impressed by suddenly soaring European stocks, Paul Chew, Head of Investments at Brown Advisory is sceptical about a continued run in 2013… »

Eurex Group and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) have agreed to deepen their strategic partnership through a long-term technology alliance under which BSE will join the Eurex technology roadmap and deploy Deutsche Börse Group’s trading architecture in a first step. »

Ada Investments is to migrate its core services and production applications to Gravitas Private Cloud, a secure, scalable and integrated solution built on VCE's VBlock state-of-the-art virtualisation and cloud technology. »

Mercer and CAIS have expanded their existing relationship by making Mercer's suite of institutional investment advice, research, products, and tools available through CAIS. »

Petrus Advisers has re-domiciled its Petrus Advisers Special Situations Fund from Jersey to the Cayman Islands.The decision to move the fund came as a result of investor demands, enabling institutional investors to invest in the fund and creating an internationally comparable investment product. »

Early-stage seeding specialist IMQ has seeded a new systematic trading strategy, the Persistence Program, from Romanesco Capital Management. »

The European Repo Council of the International Capital Market Association (ICMA) has released the results of its 24th semi-annual survey of the European repo market, which sets the baseline figure for market size at EUR5,611bn. »

Joanna Shatney (pictured), Head of US Large Cap Equities at Schroders, shares her views on the recent sequestration in the US…  »