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Calastone has strengthened the China-Hong Kong market link by establishing direct connectivity with Shenzhen Securities Communications Co (SSCC), a fully-owned subsidiary of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
Calastone is the first financial technology firm that can offer direct SSCC connectivity to financial institutions in Hong Kong participating in the China-Hong Kong Mutual Recognition of Funds (MRF) programme, including fund managers, distributors, custodians and fund administrators.
Sebastien Chaker (pictured), head of Asia for Calastone, says: “We have been supporting fund managers and distributors in processing trades since the launch of MRF but, like all market participants, were required to route these
- 29/09/2016
Linedata has launched a new release of Linedata Derivation, which provides real-time risk, analytics and portfolio management solutions to institutional and hedge fund managers across all asset types and structures.
Linedata says firms today recognise the importance of risk oversight for all areas they are increasingly concerned with – such as exposure, VaR and simulated stress testing. Linedata Derivation’s development methodology is fully based on such client feedback.
Linedata Derivation’s new capabilities focus on interconnectivity in enhanced order management and pre-trade compliance, enhanced analytics for new pricing models, and an intuitive UX using modern technology that simplifies complex views
- 29/09/2016
Jackson Square Partners is making each of its five investment strategies available in a mutual fund structure with the launch of the Jackson Square Partners Funds.
The funds include the Jackson Square Large-Cap Growth, Global Growth, SMID-Cap Growth, Select 20 Growth and All-Cap Growth Funds.
“The vast majority of our clients are institutions and these funds provide institutional clients and intermediaries with more flexibility and a broader menu of options to access Jackson Square’s strategies. The funds’ daily net asset value and lower investment minimums than a traditional separate account make the strategies accessible to a wider range of
- 29/09/2016
- 29/09/2016
Highland Capital Management, a Dallas-based alternative investment management firm, has appointed Brad Eden as global head of marketing and investor relations.
Eden (pictured) brings to Highland more than 30 years of experience across a wide range of institutional investment leadership roles.
His experience includes growing Fund Evaluation Group, an independent institutional consulting firm that he co-founded, to one of the US's largest investment consulting firms by number of clients, and leading corporate development at a USD2 billion credit-focused asset management and private equity firm where he headed successful fundraising efforts around the firm's distressed strategies.
He was also
- 29/09/2016
FastMatch, a Fintech company focused on foreign exchange trading, has joined the IPC FX Hub.
IPC's FX Hub supports the global foreign exchange markets through Equinix's International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in New York (NY4), London (LD4), Tokyo (TY3) and Singapore (SG2) as well as other major FX centres such as Moscow, Chicago, Hong Kong, Frankfurt and Zurich.
All centres have connectivity to IPC's vast community of financial market participants and low latency access via IPC's dark fibre rings to key FX liquidity providers and dealers.
The collaboration between IPC and FastMatch enables market participants within the
- 29/09/2016
- 29/09/2016
The Managed Funds Association (MFA) has appointed its board of directors for 2016-17, which it says is diverse in firm size and geographic make-up and comprised of fund managers, public and private pension funds, banks and accounting firms.
It will provide governance oversight to MFA and help guide the association’s advocacy, education and communications efforts.
MFA’s returning officers are: board chair David C Haley, president, HBK Capital Management; vice chair Michael S Harris, president, Campbell & Company; and secretary Bruce S Darringer, member and chief operating officer, King Street Capital Management.
MFA board members elected Natalie Deak Jaros,
- 29/09/2016
Capital raising boutique Hyde Park Investment has entered into a partnership with Archipelago Partners to broaden its distribution offering into the Nordic region and for Archipelago Investments to distribute its Nordic funds into Europe.
Director of Hyde Park Investment Fabrizio Pasta says: “I worked with Anders Palmqvist, the founder of Archipelago, for more than 15 years at UBS, he has deep knowledge of the Nordic markets, and working with him allows us to offer fund managers a truly pan European solution for reaching institutional investors.”
Hyde Park Investment, founded in 2004, has offices in the UK, Germany, Switzerland and
- 29/09/2016
Global macro investment manager Hathersage Capital Management, a specialist in G10 currencies and absolute returns, has been named Best Macro CTA Fund at Hedgeweek’s USA Awards 2016 ceremony in New York.
The awards were determined by the votes of Hedgeweek's subscribers, who include institutional investors, wealth managers, fund managers and other industry professionals at firms including fund administrators, prime brokers, law firms, custodians and advisers.
Established in 2003, Hedgeweek is the industry's leading digital publisher covering all facets of the global hedge fund industry.
Hathersage was founded by Bill Lipschutz, who leads a team of highly experienced FX
- 29/09/2016
Nordea Asset Management has launched the Nordea 1 – Global Long Short Equity Fund (USD Hedged), which aims to deliver a consistent absolute return and low correlation to the returns of equity markets.
US-based investment boutique ClariVest Asset Management is the sub-manager of the fund, which is managed by a team of five portfolio managers, with Todd Wolter, the lead portfolio manager, in charge of overseeing the overall portfolio construction and risk profile.
“Building on the strength of our multi-boutique approach, we see this new liquid alternative product as an important complement to our range of solutions helping investors
- 28/09/2016
EBS BrokerTec, ICAP's electronic foreign exchange (FX) and fixed income business, has gone live with EBS Live Ultra, its fastest FX data product to date.
EBS Live Ultra has two data interval rates: 100 milliseconds, the same as the current EBS Live service but with lower latency; and 20 milliseconds, five times faster than the EBS Live data product.
A direct response to EBS customers’ desire for ever-improving data provision, EBS Live Ultra delivers data to the spot FX market in real time. A low latency service, it will improve price discovery, enhance the lit FX market and increase
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