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Global Alliance Wealth Management, an alternative investment management firm with offices in New York and Hong Kong, has extended its Alternative Solutions Platform, soon to become available for accredited investors and private clients. Since 2008, Global Alliance Wealth Management has provided its global client base with access to alternative investment and private equity management solutions.   Extending on the company’s services, the Alternative Solution Platform will seek to deliver long-term capital appreciation whilst managing volatile frequencies throughout global equity markets. The extension of service is backed by a strategy that was previous available only to qualified purchasers of the company’s alternative
As alpha capture has become an accepted and essential practice at top tier European banks, it is also evolving in how it operates within the larger compliance and surveillance framework. Taking note of the specific benefits to firms engaged in alpha capture programs, TABB Group’s latest research, “The Evolving Role of Alpha Capture: Technology Matures and Opportunities Expand,” dissects the trends within the alpha capture space and where it is expected to grow moving forward.   In terms of explicit revenue, TABB estimates that alpha capture represents approximately 4.8 per cent of the commission pie globally. Report author Valerie Bogard
KeyQuant, a Paris-based systematic asset management company, has secured a USD100 million allocation from the Teachers’ Retirement System (TRS) of the State of Illinois. The investment decision was made after KeyQuant met TRS’ investment criteria for maturity, risk management, liquidity and transparency and was made directly from the pension fund’s USD3.2 billion Absolute Return Portfolio.   “Since our firm’s inception, KeyQuant has won notable hedge fund, CTA, and financial industry awards and recognition, as well as a devoted following among quantitative investors seeking uncorrelated returns. This substantial new mandate from TRS is an important step as a wide range of
Dow Jones has launched a multicast news product, delivered in a faster, lighter format throughout the New York trading community in Equinix, a data centre and interconnection company for the global financial markets. Dow Jones multicast news feed will be available in the Equinix Secaucus Campus (NY2, NY4, NY5 and NY6) International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres.   With this new, headline-only product, Dow Jones is expanding the ways financial trading firms can consume news.   The Equinix interconnection service enables customers to connect seamlessly and directly to the Dow Jones multicast news feed alongside other data providers and similar services. This direct connection enables
Following the appointment of Mike Ward in October 2016 to head new business development, Global Prime Partners has launched a new structured products business. Matt Robinson will serve as head of structured products sales, while Ross Trotman has been appointed as head of structuring.   The structured products division, initially for UK onshore clients, aims to provide clients with streamlined access to the best issuers of structured products combined with bespoke technology and tailored customer service.   Ward (pictured) says: “We have been fortunate to work with a great panel of issuing banks and developed a bespoke structured products platform
PivotalPath, a technology-driven investment consultant, has added Josh Vogelstein, a big data and machine learning expert within the fields of neuroscience, statistics and computer science, to the firm’s advisory board.  Borrowing tools from experimental and computing technologies, Vogelstein is furthering PivotalPath’s efforts in the transformation of alternative investment analysis.    The advisory board will continue to influence PivotalPath’s multi-disciplinary academic underpinnings and actively improve the ability to convert qualitative judgement into proprietary quantitative analysis, achieving the firm’s mission to provide better intelligence for better due diligence.   “Joshua brings a strong academic background and unique knowledge of big data that
Crédit Agricole CIB has partnered with Orchestrade Financial Systems, a capital markets technology platform for cross-asset trading and risk management, to overhaul its interest rate derivatives and FX Forwards trading operations. Crédit Agricole CIB is the first major bank to replace its trading and risk legacy systems with Orchestrade.   Crédit Agricole CIB is migrating all front-to-middle office processing of vanilla and structured products from two legacy platforms. The bank now runs trading and real-time risk calculations on Orchestrade for its interest rates and FX Forwards business globally.   "Orchestrade enabled us to improve risk performance, keep up with new
LiquidityBook’s SaaS-based LBX Buyside POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system) has been selected by three West Coast hedge funds – Pier 88 Investment Partners, Zeo Capital Advisors and Solstein Capital. Deployed by each firm in late 2016, the LBX Buyside platform provides a full range of order, execution and portfolio management capabilities, including real-time NAV, full historical P&L, risk management and reporting.   The global, multi-asset platform also includes the integrated LBX Connect FIX routing network, providing seamless, normalised connectivity to over 250 routing destinations worldwide.   According to Jackie Fertitta, Pier 88’s COO and CCO, the San Francisco-based,
January data from Eurekahedge reveals that hedge funds started the year up 0.87 per cent in January with managers reporting performance-based gains of USD1.3 billion. Investor subscriptions stood at USD1.2 billion during the start of the year. In annual year 2016, final asset flow figures show that manager saw redemptions totalling USD55.1 billion while performance-based gains stood at USD35.1 billion over the same period. For annual year 2016, AUM for European mandated hedge funds declined 5.47 per cent with strong redemptions of USD27.0 billion recorded – the steepest outflows for 2016 among regional mandates. The USD251.1 billion CTA/managed futures mandated
Credit Suisse Fund Management has selected RiskSystem to provide daily risk reporting and investment restriction monitoring for the Luxembourg domiciled Credit Suisse (LUX) Absolute Return Bond Fund. The CS Absolute Return Bond Fund is a USD500 million global fixed-income fund that seeks to achieve positive absolute returns, regardless of credit and interest-rate cycles, while adhering to a stringent management process.    Max Gnesi, director of Credit Suisse, says: “Credit Suisse had a specific requirement for an independent third-party risk-management provider. We are very happy to partner with RiskSystem and to use their engine and expertise to assist us in monitoring

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