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Two new European indices for blue chips – the Morningstar Eurozone 50 Index and Morningstar Developed Markets Europe 100 Index – are now live on Euronext.
The indices developed by Euronext and Morningstar aim to provide different investor profiles (asset managers, brokers, ETF issuers, banks and trading desks) with equity beta indices that can be used as benchmarks and for investable product creation. The new indices are positioned as a competitive alternative to Europe’s existing offerings and are part of Morningstar’s Open Indexes Project, which delivers a portion of Morningstar’s global equity indices for no cost to the investment community
- 27/07/2017
big xyt, a independent provider of high-volume, smart data and analytics capabilities, has launched Liquidity Cockpit, which is designed to give global trading and investment firms enhanced visibility over dark and lit liquidity.
It also provides the ability to navigate and analyse European market share across a fragmented and dynamic market landscape.
With the anticipated MiFID II dark volumes caps coming into force and the rise in Large in Scale (LIS) trading activity, equity market participants need to recognise LIS classified trades, track market share and navigate interactions across different liquidity pools.
The big xyt Liquidity Cockpit provides
- 27/07/2017
Thomson Reuters has enhanced its tick history data service, Tick History 2.0, to provide the financial industry with a powerful tool for developing algorithmic and systematic trading strategies and assist in meeting MiFID II requirements in 2018.
The solution assists institutions in complying with MiFID II, by incorporating additional reference data fields to capture the new data sources and venues under MiFID II.
Tick History 2.0 provides greater breadth and depth of historical time series, a wider range of content sets and improved search functionality. Data is recorded from Thomson Reuters Elektron Real Time Feeds covering both OTC and
- 27/07/2017
Dash Financial Technologies has named Sarah Hall (pictured) as Managing Director, Head of Human Resources.
In this role she is responsible for all aspects of the firm’s human capital investment, employee relations and talent management programs globally. A member of the firm’s executive management team, Hall is Dash’s third significant hire in as many months, joining Ari House and Robert Boylan as senior appointments.
Hall joins the firm from consumer goods provider Aden & Anais, for whom she served as Global Human Resources Director. She began her career as a Human Resources Manager for Skywalk Group, a professional services
- 26/07/2017
Thomson Reuters has enhanced its integrated buy-side trading workflow solution by delivering interoperability between its financial markets desktop Eikon and REDI execution management system.
The milestone follows Thomson Reuters acquisition of REDI in January this year and the recent expansion of the Thomson Reuters Eikon Messenger community to REDI clients.
With this new development, Thomson Reuters customers can now benefit from interoperability between REDI’s best-in-class trading capabilities and Eikon’s pre-trade content and functionality to support their trading workflow. Thomson Reuters has also integrated Elektron market data into the execution management system so that customers can leverage the same market
- 26/07/2017
New York-based hedge fund firm Gondor Capital Management’s two hedge funds again edged their benchmarks with double-digit returns in the first half of 2017, consistently outperforming the S&P 500.
Gondor’s domestic hedge fund Gondor Partners, LP jumped 11.90 per cent through June (+2.02 per cent MTD), while the offshore Gondor Partners, Ltd., finished the first six months of the year up 10.36 per cent (+1.68 per cent MTD). Comparatively, the S&P 500 rose 9.34 per cent in the first half of the year while the HFRX was up 3.73 per cent during the same period.
“The strategy I use
- 26/07/2017
FTI Consulting has launched its Specialist Director Support Services offering in the Cayman Islands, following approval of a Companies Management Licence by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority (CIMA) and the registration of individual directors under the local Directors Registration and Licensing Law.
FTI Consulting has one of the most active restructuring teams for distressed funds in the Cayman Islands and will complement its existing services to alternative investment funds with this offering. As one of a select few restructuring firms licensed and regulated by CIMA for the purpose of providing independent directors, FTI Consulting senior leaders in the Cayman Islands
- 26/07/2017
Global fiduciary and administration services provider Estera has acquired Headstart, a specialist corporate and trust services business in Luxembourg.
The transaction paves the way for Estera’s expansion into Luxembourg, one of world’s most important jurisdictions for funds and corporate services, while also broadening the company’s offering in corporate, fund and trust services.
Headstart’s Managing Directors, Christophe Gaul and Manuel Mouget, will continue to lead the business. The company, whose clients include private equity and real estate firms, institutional clients, corporates and high net worth individuals, will rebrand to Estera in September 2017.
Farah Ballands (pictured), CEO of Estera,
- 25/07/2017
- 25/07/2017
JP Morgan has launched a new agency pass-through securities index, the JP Morgan MBS Agency Index (MAX) which is designed to act as an efficient and in-depth measure of the US MBS market’s largest and most traded fixed-rate agency programs.
In this all-encompassing benchmark, JP Morgan combines 30-year, 15-year and now 20-year MBS in an index containing 404 aggregates that cover almost 85 per cent of the US agency market (as of June 30, 2017). The MAX index reduces tracking error by reflecting monthly agency factor updates from the 6th business day of the month, compared to delays until the
- 25/07/2017
- 25/07/2017
Against the backdrop of the current macroeconomic environment, Howie Li (pictured), CEO, Canvas, ETF Securities, is encouraging investors to think deeply about future proofing their portfolios.
“The unconventional policy steps which central banks took from 2008 onwards has had knock-on effects to the valuation of assets and this continues to create big challenges for investors. At the beginning of the year, investors were concerned about inflation, how much longer the equity markets could continue to perform strongly and about Brexit as well as geopolitical risk generally. Not much has changed over the year but these remain drivers for uncertainty at
- 25/07/2017
- 25/07/2017
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