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Boutique asset manager Unigestion has made three senior appointments to its newly formed intermediary team.
The team will initially have five members and Unigestion plans to grow this further as the firm increases its presence in intermediary markets.
Their initial focus will be making Unigestion’s institutional investment expertise available to intermediaries in the Southern Europe, UK, Nordics, Switzerland and the US.
Simone Gallo joins Unigestion as head of intermediary distribution. He will have responsibility for building the global intermediary channels focusing on wealth managers, multi-managers and sub-advisory mandates.
Gallo joins from Pictet Asset Management where she spent
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Asset management boutique Managing Partners Group (MPG) has appointed Philip Eaton Richards as head of its capital markets team as it expands its asset-backed securities (ABS) business based in Malta.
Reporting directly to the chief executive officer Jeremy Leach, Eaton Richards’ responsibility is to develop MPG’s securitisation and structuring services arm.
MPG believes the market for ABS is set to grow exponentially over the next few years in Europe to meet demand from companies in three main sectors – SMEs looking to expand their products and services, operators in the growing FinTech sector and alternative fund managers looking to
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The T+2 Industry Steering Committee (T+2 ISC) has welcomed recent action by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to propose a rule change that will facilitate the move to a two-day settlement cycle.
The proposed rule change will provide regulatory certainty necessary to help the financial services industry achieve its goal of moving to a two-day settlement cycle by September 2017.
The T+2 ISC, organised by The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and made up of members from across the securities industry, including co-chairs the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and the Investment Company Institute (ICI),
- 29/09/2016
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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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