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Aston Hill Financial has completed a transaction with Front Street Capital 2004 and Tuscarora Capital to combine their respective companies, creating a new independent asset management firm LOGiQ.
Effective immediately, Joe Canavan is the new chief executive officer of the company and the board of directors is now comprised of Dr Eldon Smith, Nevin Markwart, Catherine Best and Donna Toth, together with Canavan.
"We see tremendous opportunity for a strategic, technology-driven, active management firm in the current environment," says Canavan. "LOGiQ is committed to ensuring that all investors have access to the insight and execution required to produce consistently
- 09/12/2016
Linedata has launched an updated version of its portfolio management system, Linedata Global Hedge.
Designed to meet the needs of the hedge fund and institutional investment communities, the new features of Linedata Global Hedge provide clients with total control of their portfolios and transactions, from order entry right through to settlement and custody.
Offered to alternatives managers, Linedata's portfolio management solution also serves institutional investment managers and wealth advisers across Europe, North America, and Asia.
The new release aims to address the challenges created by a rapidly evolving regulatory environment, putting increased pressure on the investment community to
- 09/12/2016
Two investment teams from Allianz Investment Management (AIM), part of Allianz Group, are to join AllianzGI’s expanding global private debt platform.
Alongside Sound Harbor Partners, the US private credit manager AllianzGI announced it was acquiring last week, these new teams will form the core of a broad private debt platform within the firm’s alternatives segment.
From 1 January 2017, Allianz’s Munich-based corporate loans team, headed by Thomas Schneider, and the Westport-based US private placement team, headed by Charles Dudley, will join AllianzGI’s global investment platform.
On joining AllianzGI, the two teams will continue to manage money for Allianz
- 08/12/2016
- 08/12/2016
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has completed a platform migration for quantitative trading hedge fund Systematica Investments.
The project involved the extensive rollout of a fully managed infrastructure and trading platform across all of the firm’s European, Asian and North American operations.
Jersey-based Systematica, the quant hedge fund founded by Leda Braga in January 2015, uses science and technology as the driving force of its investment business. When the firm announced plans to replace its legacy infrastructure, it needed a strategic partner with the capabilities and scope to support ambitious trading platform innovations.
- 08/12/2016
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) division of market oversight has issued the results of a rule enforcement review of ICE Futures US.
The review, which covered a one-year target period, evaluated the Exchange’s compliance with elements of Designated Contract Market Core Principles 2 (Compliance With Rules) and 12 (Protection of Markets and Market Participants).
The division found that ICE has an adequate trade practice surveillance programme, subject to three recommendations and one deficiency.
The division made recommendations concerning the exchange’s proactive reviews for trade practice violations (trade practice reviews), its automated trade surveillance system, and trade
- 08/12/2016
The third edition of the Yale School of Management (SOM)-EDHEC-Risk Institute Executive Seminar series will be commencing in January 2017. A series of seminars focused on Advanced Risk and Investment Management, with a program designed by Lionel Martellini, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School and Director of EDHEC-Risk Institute and Will Goetzmann, Edwin J Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies, Director of the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management, will be held in New Haven and London.
For further details of the programme, including seminar dates and how to sign up to participate, please click here.
- 08/12/2016
The valuation of European stock markets is proving less attractive than previously, notably because of higher long term government bond rates, according to Renaud Froissart, manager of the Quaero European Long Short Equity Fund.
The fund returned minus 2.7 per cent in October 2016 versus minus 1.0 per cent for the HFRX Equity Hedge EUR Index, but since inception on 20 February 2014, the fund is +5.7 per cent versus -5.5 per cent for the HFRX Equity Hedge EUR index.
Through October, the net investment rate was +60 per cent (comprised of 80 per cent long individual stocks and
- 08/12/2016
SYZ Asset Management, the international asset management arm of the SYZ Group, has opened an office in Munich, strengthening its presence in Germany and its ability to provide services into Austria.
The new office opening follows on from the opening of an Italian office branch in Milan and several hiring and specific product launches.
A branch of the London headquarters of SYZ Asset Management (Europe) Ltd, the Munich office can offer a focused range of funds from the Oyster Luxembourg SICAV, as well as discretionary mandates for institutional clients. The sales’ activity is led by Michael Kenichi Schlieper as
- 08/12/2016
- 08/12/2016
Exchange turnover in investment products and leverage products fell on Europe’s financial markets in the third quarter of 2016.
Compared with the second quarter of the year, the volume dropped by 9.0 per cent to EUR25.4 billion.
This represented a 26 per cent decrease year on year, according to analysis by Derivative Partners of the latest market data collected by the European Structured Investment Products Association (EUSIPA) from its members.
The third quarter turnover in investment products trading on European exchanges amounted to EUR9.2 billion. This represented a 36.2 per cent share of total transaction volume. Exchange turnover was on a par with the previous quarter’s level and up 3.0 per cent on the figure recorded a year earlier.
Turnover in the leverage products segment (warrants, knock-out warrants, factor certificates etc.) came to EUR16.2 billion in the period
- 08/12/2016
Using automated voice surveillance systems and surveillance techniques involving Natural Language Processing are among the emerging practices being used to combat the risk of insider dealing and market manipulation, according to new guidelines from the FICC Markets Standards Board (FMSB).
The practices are highlighted in a new FMSB paper or “Statement of Good Practice” on surveillance, which sets out the core principles that firms should consider and also identifies current good practice for surveillance in the foreign exchange markets.
In a separate Statement of Good Practice on conduct training in wholesale fixed income markets, the FMSB recommends that senior
- 08/12/2016
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