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Independent hedge fund administration specialist Custom House Global Fund Services has opened an office in Beijing to accommodate the need for experienced fund administrators with a local presence. In addition, the firm has hired Nancy Wang and Yichen Huang as relationship managers responsible for business development and client collaboration. The new hires will be based in Beijing and Shanghai respectively. They will report to Allen Li, director of the Hong Kong office.   "Custom House continues to expand on our relationship-driven services in the Asia alternatives market as new fund launches are on the rise," says Mark Hedderman (pictured), CEO,
Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG) has appointed Cary W Musser as head of strategic asset management, a new role within the firm. Musser (pictured) joined RCG this week with 30 years of investment and security lending experience, most recently at Wells Fargo Asset Management.   RCG executive vice president and chief financial officer Jason Manumaleuna says: "We are ecstatic to have someone of Cary's calibre and experience fill this important new role for us as we continue our long-term growth strategy. Starting a few years ago, RCG was the first futures brokerage and clearing firm to share on its website every
Quoniam, a quantitative asset management firm headquartered in Frankfurt, with more than EUR26 billion in assets under management, has implemented Axioma Risk to improve the quality of its daily risk reporting. Axioma Risk provides complex risk reports as well as ad hoc deep dive risk analyses for various asset classes.   With Axioma Risk, Quoniam’s risk department can define and customise the statistics it uses for risk figures and stress tests, which enables Quoniam’s risk team to quickly name and quantify risks associated with investments under its surveillance.   "Quoniam has been a valued client of our portfolio construction and
Harvest Global Investments, a Chinese and Asian markets asset manager, has launched its first UCITS-compliant sub-fund, Harvest China Evolution Equity Fund. The fund will primarily invest in equity or equity-related securities and will provide investors with access to all Chinese investment channels, including Hong Kong listed securities, China companies listed as ADRs and domestic A-share stocks via the stock connects.   The fund will be managed by Yannan Chenye, portfolio manager and head of China research at Harvest. Chenye joined Harvest in 2015, from Amundi Asset Management, where she was the Greater China investment manager. The investment team implements an
Independent trust, fund and corporate services provider Crestbridge has established a presence in the GCC following its acquisition of Ohad Trust, a Bahrain-based trust, fund and corporate services provider in Manama. With regulatory consent having now been received from the Central Bank of Bahrain, Ohad has become part of the Crestbridge Group, which also has complementary offices in Jersey, London, Luxembourg and the Cayman Islands.    A full rebranding of Ohad is planned for later in 2017 to bring the business fully under the Crestbridge brand.   Ohad was the first licensed provider of trust services in Bahrain when in
Wall Street Horizon’s Enchilada corporate event dataset is now available through Interactive Brokers’ IB Trader Workstation (TWS) platform. With this collaboration, tens of thousands of traders and investors can now access Enchilada’s comprehensive forward-looking and historical corporate event data for 5,000 North American companies.   The platform tracks more than 40 different event types including earnings dates, dividend dates, splits and investor related conferences, which are available via a web-based application or direct data feed.   “We aligned with Wall Street Horizon in 2010 because their feeds were far and away the most accurate and timely, and we are pleased
The Central European Gas Hub (CEGH), located in Vienna, is already the reference market in Central Eastern Europe (CEE), according to a paper from Powernext, operator of the pan-European gas trading platform PEGAS. Powernext published the position paper in response to a study initiated by E-Control on the performance of the Austrian gas market and the impact potential market area integrations.    An integration with neighbouring markets like Slovenia, Slovakia and Croatia could further bundle liquidity in CEE and reduce dependency on oil-indexed contracts.   The study on potential market area mergers has been conducted by the independent consultant WECOM.
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed its new Skilled Person Panel, effective until 2021. The panel is a supervisory tool, used by the financial watchdog to carry out independent reports, known as a s166 review, where there are specific concerns about a regulated firm’s activities.   The reviews have been used to tackle heavyweight cases including closer examinations of restructuring deals and alleged money laundering.                       Firms issued with a s166 Requirement Notice need to select one of the appointed providers from the panel to carry out the Skilled Persons review. A skilled person must have the necessary expertise
Quaero Capital has appointed Francesco Samson as its group chief operating officer, as of 1 April, subject to Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA’s approval. Samson joins from Brevan Howard in Switzerland, where he was head and chief operating officer of the Geneva office and a member of the executive committee of Brevan Howard Investment Products in Jersey. He has considerable experience in the asset management business, built up over more than 20 years.   Prior to his last post, he spent 10 years at Nyon-based EIM SA, where he was partner, group chief operating officer and member of the
eVestment, a provider of institutional investment data and analytics, has launched the eVestment iPhone app. The app pulls from eVestment’s SaaS-based Analytics platform and allows users to see and use high-level summaries, charts and graphs highlighting research, competitive analysis and due diligence across traditional long-only and hedge fund investment vehicles.   The app is available free in the Apple App Store for all users with an existing eVestment Analytics subscription.   “Smartphones have changed how business people consume and retrieve data: they expect information to be easily accessible, easy to use anywhere and anytime and on their device of choice,”

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