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Hagen Lewis (pictured), has joined Neudata as Director, North America, and will be based in midtown New York City. Lewis will expand the US nationwide marketplace for the firm’s alternative data intelligence platform by working closely with systematic, quantitative and other professional fund managers.
“Hagen is a proven FinTech professional and a true gem to add to our expanding talent lineup,” says Rado Lipuš, founder and chief executive officer of Neudata, headquartered in London, UK. “He fully appreciates the consultative relationships we continue to forge with institutional managers who find tremendous value in leveraging the unconventional, and often under-radar, alternative
- 28/06/2017
Neuberger Berman has extended its range of alternative solutions with the launch of the Neuberger Berman Uncorrelated Strategies Fund. The UCITS Fund went live with USD71 million in seed capital from clients in the UK, Switzerland and Scandinavia.
The fund’s joint goals are to generate positive absolute returns and to focus on strategies expected to be uncorrelated to equities and fixed income, over a market cycle. The investment team, including portfolio manager, Fred Ingham, identifies differentiated strategies such as Global Macro, Equity Market Neutral, Short Term Trading and Trend Following, which have historically generated returns distinct from traditional asset classes as
- 28/06/2017
White Oak Equity Partners (White Oak), a private equity investor focused on acquiring minority GP interests in hedge funds, has acquired stake in ROW Asset Management (ROW), a systematic quantitative global macro investment firm.
Terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
The transaction and new partnership provides ROW, which has over USD800 million in assets under management, with additional financial flexibility to be more opportunistic as it seeks to grow its capabilities and assets. ROW will continue to be led by Ryan O’ Grady (pictured), co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, and Jeffrey Weiser, co-founder and President, who will
- 28/06/2017
Prestige Capital Management Limited (PCM), the AIFMD-licensed Malta arm of the Prestige group of companies, has expanded its Malta-based operation with the appointment of Dario Inclimona as junior portfolio manager to its growing team.
Inclimona will be working alongside Jonathan Scott (pictured), who joined PCM as Chief Operations Officer in November 2016, and will be looking after day to day fund investment portfolio operations.
This is part of PCM’s increasing role as the day to day operations and reporting centre for the range of Prestige Funds.
Inclimona has a career in financial services spanning eight years, having worked
- 28/06/2017
McObject and GoldenSource have teamed up to deliver deliver what they say is the fastest available Enterprise Data Management (EDM) designed for regulatory compliance, using McObject’s database technology, eXtremeDB, in the GoldenSource Market Data Solution.
GoldenSource is an independent provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM) solutions for the securities and investment management industry, while McObject is the developer of eXtremeDB, a database system for real-time and historical data analysis. The global launch today of McObject’s low latency eXtremeDB integration with GoldenSource Market Data Solution represents a leap in both performance and capability for the RegTech sector.
- 27/06/2017
Muzinich & Co, a corporate credit specialist, has opened a new office in Singapore, its first in Asia.
Muzinich & Co (Singapore) Pt. Limited has obtained a Capital Markets Services License for fund management from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Eric Pictet (pictured), who has held various senior positions in Europe since joining the firm in 2003, will have primary oversight of the Singapore office.
The Singapore opening extends Muzinich’s international footprint to nine offices. The firm, which was founded in 1988 and has its headquarters in New York, now manages over USD30 billion of assets globally in
- 27/06/2017
- 27/06/2017
Alternative asset manager P Schoenfeld Asset Management (PSAM) has purchased a minority stake in CdR Capital, a UK and Geneva headquartered private investment office.
The stake allows PSAM, which employs a research based fundamental investment approach that spans many business cycles, to capitalise on CdR Capital’s asset allocation expertise as well as the skills of its quantitative investment teams.
With this transaction, the event-driven specialist will be more responsive to the needs of its global clients. As part of the agreement, PSAM and CdR Capital will be collaborating on joint ventures and building out bespoke client solutions.
“We
- 27/06/2017
- 27/06/2017
Waymark Tech, a provider of regulatory intelligence software, has launched a new AI-powered tool that automatically identifies regulatory crossovers and conflicts between incoming regulations, such as MiFID II, GDPR, and PRIIPS.
Accessible immediately from within Waymark’s Wayfinder product, the real-time tool identifies which regulations apply to a company and then finds common areas and conflicts across other regulatory packages. This allows compliance officers to streamline implementation procedures, reduce risk and lower costs dramatically.
For example, the tool can flag up that both MiFID II and PRIIPs will require fund managers to give retail investors and professional investment advisors suitable
- 27/06/2017
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), a premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry, is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Insurance & Retirement Services (I&RS).
Prior to I&RS, insurance carriers and distributors were forced to manage time-consuming manual processes on their own, often maintaining proprietary lines for each of their trading partners. Today, the industry can entrust this work to I&RS and refocus on their business.
Launched in 1997, and offered by DTCC’s National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) subsidiary, I&RS began with four members and the first fully centralised platform through which insurers could
- 27/06/2017
Eze Castle Integration has launched the Eze Hybrid Cloud, a complete multi-cloud solution combining the Eze Private Cloud with Microsoft Cloud services to deliver a secure and flexible, fully managed environment.
The Eze Hybrid Cloud innovation was born of Eze Castle Integration’s years of private cloud experience, deep Microsoft partnership and award-winning service organisation. Eze Hybrid Cloud draws layers of security and resiliency from the Eze Private Cloud, applications from the Microsoft Cloud and 24x7x365 expert support from the Eze global service team.
“Eze Castle Integration recognises that clients across the financial sector have different risk profiles, application requirements
- 27/06/2017
- 27/06/2017
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