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Timberland Investment Resources Europe (TIR) has held a first close of its TIR Europe Forestry Fund with an initial USD74 million of committed capital. A diverse, mostly European group of limited partners made initial commitments to the fund, including public and private pension plans, insurance companies and family offices.   TIR has a value oriented approach and will be targeting 8-10 per cent returns with 3 per cent annual distributions.   GianPaolo Potsios (pictured), managing partner, says: “We are excited to be able to offer European institutional investors access to an asset class that is well established amongst US investors
Eaton Partners, a placement agent and advisory firm for private fund sponsors, has appointed Gianluca D'Angelo as managing director – head of Europe and James Townend as director. Both executives are based out of Eaton Partners' London office, representing continued investment in and expansion of the firm's capabilities in Europe.   D'Angelo, who has over 15 years of experience in financial services, is responsible for leading the origination, execution and distribution of alternative funds for Eaton Partners in Europe. Prior to joining Eaton Partners, he was a partner for global placement agent Probitas Partners UK, where he was responsible for
Bridgeway Capital Management, an independent, statistically driven investment manager, has appointed Devin Benton (pictured) as director, institutional sales and client relations. In this new position for Bridgeway, Benton will develop relationships with institutional clients such as public plans, foundations and endowments, as well as the consultants who serve them.   Benton will help strengthen relationships by listening to the needs of institutional clients and matching them with the discipline and expertise of the firm.   “We have seen how our investment philosophy resonates with the institutional market, and we needed a special kind of person to help us bring it
Independent broker and financial technology provider ITG’s PowerMatch functionality, which provides POSIT Alert’s highest-performing users with notification of larger trading opportunities, is delivering average block sizes of 66,000 shares in the US and 85,000 shares in Canada. This is about two times larger than average human trade sizes in POSIT Alert overall.   For small cap names, PowerMatch offers average block sizes which amount to 39 per cent of average daily volume (ADV) in the US and 27 per cent of ADV in Canada, as of August 2016.   PowerMatch notifications are available to all POSIT Alert participants with PowerMatch
Russell Rhoads, Director of Education, CBOE Options Institute, says this year’s speakers and topics make the 2016 CBOE Risk Management Conference a key event… In less than two weeks CBOE will host the fifth annual European version of our Risk Management Conference (RMC). This year we return to Ireland and the Powerscourt Hotel Resort and Spa, which is just outside Dublin. Two years ago RMC Europe was held at the same location which was recently named the Best Luxury Resort Spa in Ireland at the World Luxury Spa Awards.  The location is great, but the speakers and topics that will
Infront, a trading and information solution provider for professional investors, has partnered with RSRCHXchange to provide its institutional clients with access to the RSRCHX platform, an online marketplace for institutional research. The partnership makes institutional research from more than 140 research providers available on the Infront Terminal from 21 September.   It will provide Infront clients with a seamless integration between global real-time market information and research published on RSRCHX.   The RSRCHX platform is a research aggregation, procurement and management solution built in consultation with both asset management institutions and research providers to address the challenges of MiFID II
Clients and partners of multi-asset trading infrastructure provider Object Trading will have immediate Direct Market Access (DMA) to CurveGlobal, when live trading begins at the new interest rate derivatives venue from 26 September. CurveGloba, co-owned by London Stock Exchange Group, seven major dealer banks and CBOE, is the most recent addition to Object Trading’s global platform. It follows previous announcements of managed services expansions for venues in Canada and Australia.

   LSEG announced the CurveGlobal venture in October 2015. It will offer market participants a new interest rate futures liquidity pool, cleared alongside SwapClear's OTC pool, to help generate capital
Calastone, the global funds transaction network, has reached a milestone in its global expansion, with its network now providing over 10,000 trading links worldwide. The Calastone Transaction Network brings automation to the global funds industry, which has historically relied on manual methods of transaction processing.   This is achieved by enabling fully automated trading between participant fund managers and distributors, regardless of technology and geography, making all clients fully interoperable.   As the network develops it provides more firms with ease of entry and efficient distribution into new markets through its common connectivity and infrastructure.   Calastone, in collaboration with
Weeden Prime Services, a prime brokerage service provider for hedge funds and family offices, has expanded its operations to include an outsourced trading services desk. Joining Weeden Prime are industry veterans Patrick Connors, Dan Lilly and Eric Savitz.   Connors and Lilly are pioneers in the outsourced trading industry, founding Greenwich Prime Trading as managing members in 2001.   Savitz joined Greenwich Prime Trading the following year in June 2002 following in his father’s footsteps. His father, Barry Savitz, is considered the founder of outsourced trading and established the first outsourced desk at Furman Selz in 1993.   “Our 20
Boston-based asset manager PhaseCapital has appointed Michael DePalma as chief executive officer. DePalma (pictured) will lead efforts to commercialise PhaseCapital’s current product offering and leverage the firm’s data, trading and technology platform to diversify its product set.   DePalma previously spent 25 years at AllianceBernstein and most recently served as senior vice president and chief investment officer of quantitative investment strategies and director of fixed income absolute return strategies. Prior to this, he was head of the fixed income division’s quantitative research effort.   “Leading PhaseCapital offers me an opportunity to do something entrepreneurial, and I’m excited to apply the lessons I’ve

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