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Acadian Asset Management, a firm overseeing USD82 billion in active global and international quantitative assets, has launched a sustainable Emerging Markets ex Fossil Fuel strategy.   This strategy is one of the first to focus on implementing this theme across emerging markets.   Acadian, the first quantitative manager to sign the UN Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI), has always seen responsible investing as an integral part of its investment process, with dedicated ESG resources in place.   Acadian created this strategy to help meet growing investor demand for divestment within portfolios, while maintaining investment return potential and ensuring investors
RSRCHXchange, a MiFID II research solution and marketplace for institutional research, has partnered with CorpAxe, a provider of a solution for corporate access management, to make research consumption data available to mutual buy-side customers.   The collaboration allows research consumption and research assessment data to be pushed from the RSRCHX platform to CorpAxe via the RSRCHX data API. Making consumption and assessment data available alongside other sell-side interaction data provides users with a complete, unbundled overview and MiFID II compliant audit trail.   In addition, the partnership overcomes the significant data reconciliation challenges between buy-side and sell-side. Live consumption tracking
Saxo Bank has released a new developer portal, which provides technical documentation, reference guides, sample code and interactive tools for many of the technologies which in combination underpin Saxo’s Open Banking initiative.     Saxo’s Open Banking strategy is built on the premise that going forward an increasingly broader range of partnerships and collaborations will be the new disruptive factor in the financial industry.   As part of this vision, Saxo has made its multi-asset trading infrastructure available to a wide ecosystem of third-party developers, fintechs, vendors and partners, enabling them to connect their enterprises directly to Saxo’s complete trading
Colt Technology Services is to launch newly optimised low-latency network routes linking stock exchanges in Tokyo and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, which will be available from 23 May 2017.   Connectivity will be provided through the company’s private Ethernet-based Colt IQ Network.   Latency between Tokyo and Chicago will reach a speed of 121.07ms between each endpoint after network optimisation. In addition, the company has commenced optimisation of other key routes in the Asia-Pacific region.   The new optimisations will benefit traders in Chicago who require fast connectivity to Tokyo, or exchange venues in Tokyo that require low-latency connectivity to
Euronext has acquired around 90 per cent of FastMatch for a USD153 million initial cash consideration.   FastMatch’s management will remain invested with a circa 10 per cent interest, with minority rights. Closing is subject to regulatory and anti-trust approvals, and is expected to occur in Q3 2017.   This bolt-on acquisition is part of Euronext’s strategy to actively leverage its balance sheet flexibility to capture value accretive opportunities and to accelerate growth and diversification of the revenue base in line with its ambitions. As such, the investment in FastMatch will not consume any resource dedicated to the deployment of
Managed futures traders gained 0.16 per cent in April, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge.   Year to date, the index remains down 0.66 per cent.   Five of Barclay’s CTA indices had gains in April, while three had losses. Currency Traders were up 0.40 per cent, Financial/Metals Traders gained 0.33 per cent, Systematic Traders added 0.20 per cent, and Diversified Traders eked out a 0.03 per cent gain.   The Agricultural Traders Index lost 0.38 per cent in April, and Discretionary Traders were down 0.11 per cent.   “Another month of rising equity prices generated profits
Now that you have a handle on the nightmare scenario and understand the importance of fostering a culture of security across your investment firm, here are four steps to guide you through the creation of that culture.  1. Create a computer incident response team Start by creating a “Computer Incident Response Team” who will oversee your information-security policies. Although IT professionals are responsible for overseeing and maintaining your computing infrastructure, you also need business users to play a central role in your security initiatives. After all, they’re the ones who use these resources – and the ones who can
MainstreamBPO has executed sale agreements to acquire Trinity Fund Administration in Ireland and the Cayman Islands.   Privately owned Trinity currently provides administrative, transfer agency, company register, corporate secretarial, risk and regulatory reporting and other ancillary services to over 140 funds and investment vehicles incorporated in a variety of jurisdictions.   The acquisition will increase MainstreamBPO’s client base and funds under administration. Trinity currently services or administers assets in the region of USD7 billion.   Trinity was founded in 1993 by CEO John McCann, and has received recognition from the international funds industry on numerous occasions including being awarded the
Pan-European exchange group Euronext has launched Euronext Fund Service Paris, which draws on its experience with Euronext Fund Service in Amsterdam.   Brieuc Louchard (pictured), business development manager, ETFs and funds at Euronext, says the aim of this project is to encourage asset management companies to list their open-ended funds – UCITS, AIF or passported in France – drawn from all strategies, on the exchange.   “The way we designed this service is that it is open to anyone from retail investors to institutional investors and corporates,” Louchard says.   “It is a new market segment from scratch, designed to
Acuity Trading and Dow Jones have formed a partnership to launch a visual news analytics tool for traders. Now in beta, the new tool – called Acuity Visual Edge, Powered by Dow Jones – features displays of news sentiment from Dow Jones and Acuity Trading news sources, offering traders visual cues to better understand market trends and stimulate trade ideas.   The tool showcases some emerging ways in which news can be used to aid trading decisions, and leverages the new Dow Jones DNA platform that launched in beta in April.   “News is an incredibly rich source of data

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