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Nasdaq, a leading provider of real-time market data and analytics to large institutions, financial professionals, and retail investors, has added four new data sets to the Nasdaq Analytics Hub. The Hub debuted in May 2017 to address the growing needs of the buy-side to gain access to potential new trading and investment signals derived from the growing number of structured and unstructured data sets. The addition of these four new data sets provides insights from corporate filings, combinations of fundamental and technical factors, and two different approaches for long and short investing.   “Nasdaq is continuing to bring innovation and change to the
Managed futures traders lost 0.98 per cent in June, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. This was the largest monthly decline so far this year as the Index is down 1.65 per cent through the first two quarters of 2017. The BTOP50 Index, which tracks the 50 largest investable CTAs, also fell, registering a loss of 2.60 per cent in June, and is down 4.77 per cent for the year as well.   “The first half of 2017 has been difficult for the CTA industry,” says Sol Waksman (pictured), founder and president of BarclayHedge. “The combination of
The most vital asset a business controls is its information. As the driver of many business processes, data is a powerful tool, and therefore has to be secure, accurate and accounted for. When this sensitive information gets into the wrong hands, it can cause serious damage to a firm’s business operations and reputation.  Types of dirty data Forgotten data poses a critical security risk to financial firms. This type of data includes old reports, archived emails, outdated customer information and information that is stored on devices you may not realise (eg flash drives, scanners, printers, and video conference equipment). Verizon’s 2008
BlueMountain Capital Management (BlueMountain), a diversified alternative asset manager, has appointed Claudio Macchetto as Head of Platform Distribution, a newly created position at the firm, effective 10 July.

 In the role, Macchetto will be responsible for the marketing of BlueMountain’s diversified alternative investment strategies to wealth management channels and private banking platforms, as well as the management of retail distribution relationships globally.

   “We are pleased to welcome Claudio to BlueMountain,” says Stephen Siderow, BlueMountain’s Co-President and Co-Founder. “He brings a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience working with top wealth managers and private banks. He will be instrumental in making our
Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, has added to its China equity capabilities with portfolio manager Bin Yu joining the firm. Yu brings with him a team of four research analysts, all from CloudRidge Capital, an investment management firm he founded in 2014. The team will continue to manage their current strategy as a private fund with offerings to expand based on Neuberger Berman clients’ needs. The team is located in Hong Kong and Beijing.   Yu and team bring strong local expertise and experience in the China equity markets – both with local listed A-shares and Hong
Alternative UCITS funds continued experiencing strong capital inflows during 2017 with the market reaching EUR435 billion in assets under management by the end of June, a strong +10.2 per cent growth since beginning of the year. That’s according to the LuxHedge Alternative UCITS Market Update which reveals that the most popular alternative strategies in UCITS format were Fixed Income Arbitrage (AUM +14.7 per cent), Global Macro (AUM +13.9 per cent) and Multi Strategy (AUM +12.9 per cent). Equity Long/Short funds stayed somewhat behind on this trend and recorded a +4.9 per cent increase in assets. With the VIX index at
HFR reports that hedge fund industry capital increased to a fourth consecutive quarterly record in 2Q17, as investor allocations outweighed redemptions for the first time since 3Q15. Total hedge fund capital rose to USD3.1 trillion, a quarterly increase of USD34.1 billion, driven by net inflows of USD6.7 billion. The 2Q inflows offset an outflow of USD5.5 billion in 1Q17, bringing YTD net inflows to USD1.2 billion. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index (FWC) posted its eighth consecutive monthly gain and fifteenth gain in the past 16 months to conclude 2Q17, the longest such performance streak since the period ending April
By George Ralph, RFA – Imagine you’re the CTO of a successful hedge fund. You’re not big enough to have a dedicated CISO but you think you’re doing a pretty good job of securing your network. Your applications and databases are secure, you’ve just invested in a network intrusion detection system and some next generation firewalls.   Next, you move on to your internet traffic and cloud services. You make sure your firm’s SSL certificates are up to date, and you use HTTPS and OAuth2.0. Then you insist all remote users access the network via secure VPN, that files are
Running an alternative fund management business has become a far more considered, strategic affair in the light of significant regulatory changes post-08. One might compare it to the ultimate game of strategy, chess. To stay in compliance with AIFMD, Dodd-Frank, and the upcoming MiFID II and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) in Europe, fund managers have to think two moves ahead, and ensure that they have their pawns in position. One wrong move and they run the risk of facing what might be best described as regulatory checkmate. “I think the implementation of AIFMD has had the biggest impact on
Tarter Krinsky & Drogin has appointed Charles M Miller as a partner in the firm’s Litigation practice where he will lead the newly formed Securities and Financial Services Litigation Group. A litigator with more than 20 years of experience, Miller represents institutional investors, investment funds, high-net-worth individuals and overseas financial institutions in a wide range of disputes arising in connection with debt and equity securities, derivatives, financial contracts and structured financial transactions.   Miller litigates contract and tort claims arising in connection with privately issued debt and equity, leveraged loans, collateral bond obligations (CBOs), collateral loan obligations (CLOs), residential mortgage-backed

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