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Sydney-based Dalton Street Capital, in partnership with Prodigy Investment Partners, has deployed the FlexTrade Systems’ FlexTRADER EMS to facilitate global cross asset trading of futures, equities and FX. According to Alan Sheen, co-founder and director, Dalton Street Capital, choosing to partner with FlexTrade was an easy choice after reviewing the firm’s trading solutions and technical support.   “FlexTrade’s multi-asset trading EMS, combined with its automation capabilities and intuitive API interface, were truly impressive,” says Sheen. “Now we can automatically hedge our foreign exchange exposure while seamlessly managing cross asset risk.   “Also, one of our primary concerns was finding a
The Tribeca Global Natural Resources Fund has been ranked the number one performing hedge fund in all strategies globally in the 2017 Preqin Global Hedge Fund report. The fund is a long/short global natural resources fund focusing on large liquid opportunities in equities, credit and commodities. The fund’s investible universe includes hard rock commodities, energy, soft commodities and the service providers and infrastructure that wrap around these three groups.   Ben Cleary (pictured), co-portfolio manager, says 2017 is also looking to be a promising year for the fund.   “Despite a broad based selloff in global bonds, the Trump presidency and
ACR Alpine Capital Research, a value-oriented asset management firm, has appointed Neel Shah and Mark Unferth as portfolio managers. Shah and Unferth will lead ACR’s investments in performing and distressed credit, and work with the portfolio management team on investment idea generation, selection, monitoring and risk management.   “Mark and Neel’s proven expertise investing across the capital structure and their deep knowledge of assets spanning a multitude of industries will enhance ACR’s valuation process and opportunity set,” says Nick Tompras (pictured), founder and chief investment officer.   Shah and Unferth will be based in New York and report to Tompras.
Dealogic has combined its buy-side products into a single offering, Dealogic Connect, creating an MiFID II compliant solution that links a network of 250-plus investment firms to 150-plus sell-side partners. Dealogic Connect brings together Dealogic's acquisition of A2 Access' aggregated corporate access calendar, activity tracking and broker vote capabilities with Dealogic's recent launch of automated orders for primary market issuance.   Investment managers now have the ability to create an accurate, reconciled set of interaction data provided by their sell-side partners, evaluate their consumption of activities, and communicate with the sell-side in a compliant manner that meets MiFID II requirements.
Alcentra, the alternative fixed income specialist of BNY Mellon Investment Management, has held the final close of its second European direct lending fundraising. This fundraising has brought recent commitments to EUR4.3 billion across funds and separately managed accounts. The firm’s committed capital for the strategy now exceeds EUR5.7 billion.   The fundraising is part of the broader direct lending strategy that Alcentra has been offering to institutional investors since 2003. To date, Alcentra has invested over EUR5.3 billion in middle market companies across senior debt, unitranche, second-lien, mezzanine and equity investments.   Alcentra has been sourcing and arranging financings to
London-based Garraway Capital Management has announced that it is to build on its strong 2016 performance with a programme designed to build its assets. Its Irish UCITS fund, Garraway Financial Trends, was launched in 2012, becoming a ‘pure’ UCITS strategy in February 2014. The firm writes that the fund employs a proprietary systematic trend-following strategy to trade across global UCITS-eligible exchange-traded futures, including currencies, stock indices and government bonds. Darran Goodwin (pictured), Fund Manager of Garraway Financial Trends, says: “After a solid three-year track record trading its current strategy and excellent performance in 2016, we are now at the stage
FX and CFD broker XM Group (Trading Point Group) has signed an agreement with Academia de Mercados (ADM) in which ADM will be delivering webinars and seminars to XM clients in Spain, Portugal and Latin America. The agreement was signed by XM Group CEO Constantinos Cleanthous and ADM CEO Humberto Toro.   The cooperation will include daily webinars available on the XM site in Spanish and Portuguese and land based seminars focusing on the use of technical analysis, reading and understanding charts, money management and trading psychology.   The first land-based seminars will be taking place in the beginning of
PFSOFT, a fintech developer of multi-asset brokerage and trading solutions, has integrated its Protrader multi-asset brokerage solution with InterTrader. InterTrader provides multi-asset-class liquidity across forex, indices, commodities, equities, bonds and interest rates, with access to large ECN liquidity pools of tier 1 financial institutions.   Shai Heffetz (pictured), managing director of InterTrader, says: “We’re convinced that Protrader brokers will appreciate our exceptional liquidity. We offer a low-latency trading environment combined with multiple execution venues to provide best execution prices. Our service has attracted many partners to date including FCA-regulated asset managers and investment funds.”   With its “matched principal” model,
Torstone Technology, a provider of post-trade securities and derivatives processing, is expanding its services in Asia with senior appointments in Japan and the signing of a multi-year deal with Natixis Japan Securities to use Torstone’s collateral management module. Natixis Japan Securities will use Torstone Technology’s flagship post-trade securities and derivatives processing system, Inferno, to improve and automate its collateral management processes, thereby reducing operational inefficiencies and costs in addition to complying more efficiently with various regulatory requirements in Asia.   In support of new clients such as Natixis Japan Securities and as a result of the ever increasing regulatory and
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) DataPro product suite, previously known as DTCC Data Products, is being enhanced to include additional data offerings covering major asset classes. DTCC DataPro delivers referential and activity-based data solutions that help clients address evolving operational, regulatory compliance, risk management and investment processes.   DTCC DataPro currently covers major asset classes across six categories: announcement, liquidity, market and benchmark analytics, regulatory compliance, risk and security reference.   “DTCC DataPro leverages data collected by DTCC’s processing and data engines to help firms address front-, middle- and back-office needs,” says Ron Jordan, managing director of data

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