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By Alap Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Sentieo – Investment analysts, by and large, are a pretty smart group. If they can find a better way to do their job, they will. So it’s no surprise that an industry that relies so heavily on information has adopted a number of consumer-grade apps to enhance their workflow. And while better than nothing, this practice can create more problems than it tries to solve. In the analyst community, note-taking apps such as Evernote and OneNote now often serve as the foundation for the research process, in spite of the fact that neither were designed
Hedge fund liquidations increased in the fourth quarter even as the industry surpassed the USD3 trillion milestone, bringing the number of closed funds for 2016 to the highest level since 2008. Hedge fund liquidations increased to 275 in Q4, rising from 252 in the prior quarter, though falling from the 305 funds liquidated in Q4 2015, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Report, released today by HFR.   For the full year 2016, liquidations totalled 1,057, surpassing the 1,023 liquidations from 2009, though falling well short of the record of 1,471 liquidations from 2008.   As previously reported by
JP Morgan now has access to the largest pool of buy-side block liquidity in Europe via SIX Swiss Exchange Liquidnet Service (SLS), a long-standing partnership of SIX Swiss Exchange with Liquidnet. SLS provides JP Morgan with access to genuine block liquidity and unrivalled average execution size, providing maximum price improvement and minimal market impact.   SLS unites participants with over 830 buy-side institutions actively trading more than 3'100 large-, mid- and small-cap stocks across 13 markets.   Gregor Braun, head product sales at SIX Swiss Exchange, says: "To enjoy the benefits of SLS, our participants can use their existing connection
Managed futures traders gained 0.71 per cent in February, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. Year to date, the index has decreased 0.02 per cent.   Five of Barclay’s eight CTA indices had gains in February. The Financial/Metals Traders Index was up 1.18 per cent, Systematic Traders gained 0.89 per cent, Diversified Traders were up 0.78 per cent, and Currency Traders added 0.44 per cent.   “Trend reversals in European bond yields and a weakening euro were not enough to sap the profits gained from long equity positions, as the global stock market rally extended into its
Backstop Solutions Group, a provider of cloud-based productivity solutions for hedge funds, funds of funds, pensions, endowments, foundations, private equity firms, consultants and family offices, and ACA Technology Solutions, a provider of investment management and regulatory technology solutions, have completed an API integration of their solutions. The hook-up connects ACA's NorthPoint Data Management and Security Master Solutions to Backstop's CRM, Research Management, and Portfolio Management Systems.   The connectivity with ACA allows Backstop clients to integrate data from multiple sources, including proprietary systems and other relevant data stores and providers, creating a seamless flow of information and ensuring users are
Northern Trust has appointed Katharine Morris as head of sales of its global fund services business in the UK. Based in London, Morris is responsible for offering investment operations outsourcing, fund administration and the full range of asset servicing solutions, to investment managers domiciled in the UK.   “We are pleased to welcome Katharine to Northern Trust,” says Laurence Everitt (pictured), head of global fund services for the UK at Northern Trust. “Her experience working with some of the UK’s most sophisticated asset managers will be valuable as we continue to grow our global funds services business in the region
ONEaccess has made enhancements to its platform that will allow asset managers to comply with MiFID II requirements, including regular assessment of research quality, management of research budgets and enforcement of stricter controls around inducements. The ONEaccess platform enables asset management firms to monitor, aggregate and analyse all of their interactions with research providers in one place, ensuring that consumption is aligned with the firm’s research budgets.   To facilitate the assessment of research quality, customisable research provider scorecards let firms assign weightings to valuable research services including analyst meetings and models, corporate access, and bespoke work. With this information,
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has extended its product offering on the power derivatives market by launching Swiss Power Base Day and Weekend Futures. On the first day of trading a total of 5,400 MWh was traded in Swiss Base Day Futures.   The first transaction in the Day Futures contract with a volume of 600 MWh was brokered by ARRACO Global Markets and concluded between Danske Commodities and NEAS Energy.   Swiss Power Base Day and Weekend Futures complement the existing Futures product range for the Swiss market which includes weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly delivery periods.   EEX
By Mary Beth Hamilton (pictured), Vice President, Eze Castle Integration â€“ It’s inevitable for C-level execs at hedge funds and private equity firms to have differing opinions from time to time, and outsourced IT can sometimes be an area that breeds tension at the management level. On one hand, Chief technology officers (CTOs) are engrossed in every level of technology, from application management to security to disaster recovery, and they have a vested interest in concerns from user experience to business continuity and beyond.  On the other hand, you have chief financial officers (CFOs) focused on the bottom line, factoring in the
A rising number of newly launched hedge funds are employing non-equity-based investment strategies, according to The Seward & Kissel 2016 New Hedge Fund Study. The portion of new hedge funds using non-equity-based strategies increased to 35 per cent in 2016, up from 20 per cent in 2015.   The 2016 numbers indicate that as non-equity funds become more prevalent, investors are beginning to extract from them concessions similar to those they have previously won from equity-based funds.   The percentage of non-equity funds offering special “founders” terms to investors jumped from 29 per cent in 2015 to 36 per cent in

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