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Alternative investment firm MidOcean Partners has appointed Spencer Potts as head of business development and Ruth Lane as head of investor relations. “Spencer and Ruth are both highly accomplished investment management industry executives,” says Ted Virtue, chief executive officer of MidOcean. “We are thrilled to welcome them to our team and look forward to leveraging their deep relationships and alternative asset management expertise as we seek to deliver a premier solutions-based experience to our investors and expand our client base globally.”   Potts joins MidOcean from CIFC, where he served as head of business development. Previously, he spent eight years
Lime Brokerage and Vela Trading Technologies, a provider of trading and market data technology, have integrated Lime’s Strategy Studio, its software solution for streamlined strategy research and deployment, with Vela's low latency direct feed handlers. The combined products enable clients to benefit from Strategy Studio's application programming interface (API) and strategy management user interface, while accessing Vela's broad set of over 250 global direct feeds supporting all major asset classes.     Lime’s Strategy Studio facilitates single stream strategy development, allowing clients to use a consistent code base for back testing, simulating from live market data, and trading in production.
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management solutions, has appointed Sol Zlotchenko as the company’s chief technology officer (CTO). In this role, Zlotchenko (pictured) will lead all aspects of technology direction, product development and technical support for Hazeltree’s treasury solutions.   He joins Hazeltree with more than 20 years of software industry experience and extensive financial technology and hedge fund expertise.    “Due to increased regulatory constraints around managing cash and collateral, the need for robust treasury solutions is more critical than ever before,” says Sameer Shalaby, CEO of Hazeltree. “Sol’s expertise in building innovative FinTech products and scaling development organisations
Libero Development Fund, a hedge fund launched by Mary Murphy who helped to establish International Fund Services before its acquisition by State Street, is now open to specialist investors. Prior to the soft launch of the fund late last year, its proprietary investment strategy was only available to closed private funds with circa EUR300 million under management.   To the end of July 2016, the Libero Development Fund has achieved a YTD return of 5.07 per cent and is up 2.35 per cent since inception of the A share class in October 2015.   Murphy (pictured) says: “It has taken
The latest performance data for Societe General Prime Services CTA Indices shows that August was a difficult month for CTA strategies, with all managed futures indices in the red and 19 out of the 20 CTA Index constituent strategies ending August negatively. The SG Short-Term Traders Index produced the lowest returns in August at -3.41 per cent despite remaining the strongest performing of the managed futures indices year to date. The flagship CTA index was also still in solidly positive territory year to date.   Attribution data from the SG Trend Indicator show that equity indices were the only positive
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has called for greater harmonisation of asset segregation across European regulation in a new report entitled “Principles of Asset Segregation, Due Diligence and Collateral Management”. Segregation of client assets currently falls under various pieces of EU regulation (including AIFMD, EMIR, CSDR, UCITS V and MiFID/MiFIR), however, the report finds there is currently no consistency in the meaning of “account segregation” across the regulations nor in the level of segregation required.   The report calls for a harmonised approach to ensure a high standard of securities account holder protection whilst also acknowledging the
HSBC Securities Services (HSS), part of HSBC’s global banking and markets business, has appointed Tony McDonnell (pictured) to head of sales and business development, securities services, Europe. McDonnell will report to Rafael Moral Santiago, head of securities services, Europe, and will be responsible for driving forward HSBC’s securities services growth across all client sectors and asset servicing products.   Alongside his new role, McDonnell will continue as managing director, securities services in Ireland, a role he was appointed to in September 2014. In this role, McDonnell is responsible for responsible for running the securities services operation in Ireland and growing
AlphaDesk, a cloud-based software provider to hedge funds and other investment managers, has released a fast-track deployment of its front-to-back, multi-asset, integrated order and portfolio management system (OMS/PMS). The new release will provide start-up and emerging funds managers with AlphaDesk's core functionality within a pre-defined configuration and a select number of integrations and interfaces.   There are no implementation fees, and installation and training takes place across a few weeks, not months. A full 90-day refund warranty is also included.   Nick Straatsma (pictured), global product manager, says: "With this new package we are responding to the comments from prime
Colt PrizmNet financial extranet is enabling connectivity to a cloud-based ecosystem of MiFID II compliant solutions, helping capital markets firms deal with the various aspects of the directive which is due to come into force in January 2018. Current partners include TraderServe for algorithm testing, Aquis Exchange for best execution, and TRADEcho for trade reporting.   Colt PrizmNet is a private network that links the global capital market ecosystem, connecting over 10,000 firms worldwide.   The extranet provides a scalable, secure, and reliable platform to rapidly connect and support market participants in areas such as surveillance and data management, helping
Pavilion Financial has closed its acquisition of Altius Holdings, the parent company of Altius Associates, a private markets advisory and separate account management firm with offices in the UK, US and Singapore.  Pavilion has also established Pavilion Alternatives Group, a combination of the operations of Altius Associates and LP Capital Advisors (LPCA), the alternative asset advisory subsidiary of Pavilion headquartered in Sacramento, California.    The rebranding for both organisations is effective immediately.   “Pavilion Alternatives Group will proudly carry forward the shared vision of its two founding firms to provide institutional clients with objective, thoughtful and well-researched advice on alternative

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