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EFG Hermes and Saxo Bank have formed a partnership which will enable full integration of Saxo Bank’s SaxoTraderGO platform with EFG Hermes’ new online trading platform, EFG Hermes One. The new platform will grant clients one-click access to financial instruments in both multiple Middle East and North Africa (MENA) markets as well as global exchanges.   The platform will enable more investors to explore investment opportunities and access global capital markets. EFG Hermes One also incorporates real-time market intelligence from EFG Hermes Research’s global team and international insights from Saxo’s strategy team.   EFG Hermes One is the first service
Man AHL, Man Group’s diversified quantitative investment manager, has launched the second annual Man AHL Coder Prize, a coding competition for students with a top prize of GBP5,000. The Man AHL Coder Prize, which launched last year for students in the UK and Ireland, is now also open to entrants based in the EU or Switzerland, who are aged 16-25 and in full time education.   Entrants will be tasked with writing code using Python, the programming language which Man AHL uses for its systematic models, to control a player for Man AHL’s homemade game HiveMinder.   The seven coders
Polen Capital is to add an international growth strategy to its suite of products in early 2017, providing clients with another access point to the firm’s bottom-up, concentrated investment philosophy and process. Todd Morris (pictured), director of research at Polen Capital, has been appointed as portfolio manager of the new international growth strategy, effective December 2016.   In his role as director of research, Morris was responsible for globalising the firm’s research effort and leading the execution of research for the focus growth and global growth strategies.   Brandon Ladoff, who joined Polen Capital in 2013 and has served as
IPC, a provider of communications and networking solutions, has joined the Equinix Cloud Exchange (ECX) to provide access via its Connexus Cloud solution to cloud providers available in Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Customers can access the Equinix eco-system of more than 500 cloud service providers delivered via IPC's Connexus Cloud, a private financial markets network with over 200,000 users across 6,000 market participant locations in 700 cities.   Through the Equinix Cloud Exchange, IPC is able to provide the benefits of the cloud to customers adopting SaaS offerings while leveraging
Fund governance firm DMS Governance and ABR Dynamic Funds have launched the ABR Dynamic Blend Equity and Volatility Fund on the DMS UCITS Corrib ICAV platform.  The ABR UCITS seeks to provide investors with participation in an equity bull market while also potentially providing positive absolute returns in an extended period of market crisis.    "DMS is very pleased to have partnered with a manager of the calibre of ABR to facilitate their European fund and distribution strategy. This demonstrates their commitment and confidence in DMS's product and people and we look forward to a successful and long standing relationship,"
The hedge fund industry saw its lengthy run of positive performance taper off in October, as funds recorded net returns of just 0.01 per cent, according to data released by Preqin. Most leading strategies recorded modest gains, with credit strategy funds returning 0.84 per cent, and relative value funds returning 0.49 per cent.   However, equity and event driven strategy funds both saw losses, returning -0.27 per cent and -0.26 per cent respectively, contrasting with their position as the highest-performing leading strategies in September.   While most commingled hedge fund benchmarks were close to 0.00 per cent in October, other
Hedge funds declined 0.48 per cent in October – their first monthly loss after seven straight months of gains, according to the latest figures released by EurekaHedge. Despite being in the red this month, hedge funds have outperformed underlying markets, with the MSCI AC World Index (Local) down 1.38 per cent in October.   On a year-to-date basis, hedge funds were up 2.85 per cent with roughly 20 per cent of managers posting double digit returns compared with 15 per cent over the same period last year.   While the US Presidential Elections loomed in the background, markets moved in the
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Liberum, a pan-European investment bank, signed a multi-year deal with Torstone Technology to use Inferno in July and went live last week, implementing a complete back office system within four months. Inferno will process Liberum’s post-trade flow, from trade capture through to settlement, accounting and reconciliation.   The ability to easily scale-up its business operations and update processes to comply with regulatory requirements was a key driver behind Liberum’s move to Inferno.   Inferno is an automated scalable system, which can handle large volumes on hosted commodity hardware. Its real-time, event-driven, service-orientated architecture enables firms to achieve very high rates
Prestige Capital Management (PCM) has appointed Jonathan Scott as chief operating officer (COO) with its Malta based investment operations office, subject to MFSA approval. Scott (pictured) has a career in financial services spanning over 16 years, split between the UK and US with international investment banking groups Credit Suisse, Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas and JP Morgan Chase.   He studied at Texas A&M University, a senior military college, where he was awarded a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance with a Certificate in International Business, and spent four years with the US Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps.   Scott

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