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GreenKey, a creator of a voice workspace platform for global financial market participants, is to launch a mobile application for iOS and Android devices.  The new app will offer full integration with GreenKey's patented software and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network along with existing turrets (lines and hardware).   Secure turret functionality will be available through the mobile app, including intercom connections with push-to-talk functionality. In addition the app will include the ability to place outbound or accept incoming calls with full recording capability and transcription.   GreenKey chief product officer Anthony Tassone (pictured) says: "We're thrilled to launch
The average hedge fund industry performance was +0.73 per cent in September, marking eight months of positive aggregate industry returns for the industry. That’s according eVestment’s September 2016 Hedge Fund Performance Report.   Overall Q3 performance came in at +2.91 per cent in Q3 and year-to-date hedge fund returns stand at +4.40 per cent.   Among strategies, origination and financing funds (+1.65 per cent), activist funds (+1.29 per cent), distressed funds and long/short equity funds (both at +1.05 per cent) turned in the strongest performances in September. Activist funds won the quarter at +4.87 per cent and distressed funds won
GLAS, an independent provider of finance administration services, has appointed Joe Knight to spearhead the expansion of the firm’s direct lending platform.  Knight will have responsibility for business development and developing strategic relationships with GLAS’ existing direct lending client base.   The move comes as funds increasingly replace banks in the lower to middle market transactions, leading to an uptick in demand for independent agent and trustee services.   Knight is an experienced loan professional with over 15 years’ experience in the syndicated loan market. Before joining GLAS, he was managing the London office of AgenSynd. Prior to joining the
Pioneer Investments has launched a global inflation-linked short-term strategy as an approach to managing against inflation risk. The firm says the strategy aims to protect investors’ purchasing power and returns against inflation through the use of low duration global inflation-linked bonds.   The use of 1-5 years inflation-linked government bonds helps the strategy to be correlated with realised inflation in a low rates environment, as opposed to expected inflation.   “Often, the discussion about inflation risk only starts after it is already a problem and inflation hedges are expensive,” says Cosimo Marasciulo (pictured), head of European government bonds. “Current market
The University of Oxford has appointed Mihaela van der Schaar to the Man Professorship of Quantitative Finance, which is funded in perpetuity by a charitable gift of GBP3.3 million made in 2007 by the Charitable Trust of Man Group. Van der Schaar (pictured) will be based at the Oxford-Man Institute (OMI), a centre for research into machine learning and data analytics applied to quantitative finance.   The OMI, which opened in 2007, is a collaboration between the University of Oxford and Man Group and shares premises with Man Group’s Oxford research laboratory.   The OMI has recently joined the University
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.11 per cent in September, down on the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index’s 0.55 per cent return. The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Multi-Strategy Index, which includes both single and multi-manager funds, returned 0.13 per cent in September.   The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index family is a joint offering between Wilshire Funds Management, the global investment management business unit of Wilshire Associates Incorporated, and Wilshire Analytics, creator of the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index.    The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Equity Hedge Index,
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) is to focus on supervisory convergence issues next year, according to its 2017 Work Programme. The programme sets out ESMA’s future priorities and areas of focus in support of its mission to enhance investor protection and promote stable and orderly financial markets.   The programme reflects the shift in focus of ESMA’s work from building the single rulebook towards ensuring its consistent application across the European Union, as outlined in its 2016-2020 Strategic Orientation.   The key areas of focus under ESMA’s activities of supervisory convergence, assessing risks, single rulebook and direct supervision
Crestbridge in Luxembourg will act as the manager for the first platform to be launched under Luxembourg’s recently introduced Reserved Alternative Investment Fund (RAIF) regime. Following the approval of the RAIF law in July 2016, the launch of the first RAIF platform is expected to prove attractive for a broad range of asset classes, including private equity, real estate and hedge funds.   It offers non-EU and EU managers a fast, cost-effective, simple and robust way to access European investor capital.   Under the new RAIF regime, the regulatory focus lies with the Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM) rather than
Tradeweb Markets and FTSE Russell have been named by the UK Treasury as the joint future providers for end-of-day reference prices for Gilts and Treasury bills. Tradeweb and FTSE Russell are working closely to collaborate to create the “Tradeweb FTSE Gilt Closing Prices” solution following the UK Debt Management Office (DMO) announcement that it intends to withdraw from the provision of reference prices, and its decision to launch an independent review into successor arrangements.   “With a 13-year history in the Gilt market, we believe Tradeweb is ideally positioned to succeed the DMO as the single input data source of
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management solutions, has added BlackRock to the partner network of Hazeltree LiquidityWeb, an integrated cash management and sweep platform. The partnership provides mutual clients with an efficient way to manage cash and sweep unencumbered free cash to BlackRock money market funds.   Treasurers look to BlackRock for investment solutions that seek to meet their cash needs of safety, liquidity and yield. Over multiple interest rate cycles and varying market conditions, BlackRock has managed cash portfolios for many types of institutional investors including corporations, banks, insurance companies, private equity firms, and hedge funds.   BlackRock

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