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Nuveen has teamed with Artivest, a technology-driven alternatives investment platform, to bring alternative investments capabilities to RIAs, family offices, private banks and other financial advisers serving qualified high-net-worth investors. Advisers will now be able to use investment tools, education materials and a client service team to access Nuveen and parent company TIAA’s alternative investment solutions, which currently comprise assets exceeding USD140 billion in aggregate, including real estate, agriculture, infrastructure, timber, agribusiness, private equity, as well as alternative credit-based, long/short, and special sector investment strategies.   Nuveen says alternative investments are playing an increasingly important role in building successful and diversified
There is a growing attraction among hedge funds of all shapes and sizes to outsource any non-core related functions to trusted third parties as the demands of running a hedge fund in today’s regulatory-heavy environment increase. This has led to an upsurge in demand from managers across the AUM spectrum for outsourcing and managed services, as they seek to ease the operational burden. As Gerhard Grueter pictured), co-founder of Lawson Conner, a market leader in compliance solutions for the investment fund industry, observes, the pace of regulation has increased over the last five years and become much more complex:  “Fund
REDI Global Technologies has expanded its Asia-Pacific data centre infrastructure and added several new staff in the region.  This builds on REDI’s points of presence across Asia, EMEA and the Americas, and reinforces its cross-regional mesh of data centres.     "We see a tremendous amount of opportunity in Asia Pacific, and we're pleased to expand our presence in the region by growing our operations there," says Michael Rude, REDI's chief revenue officer. "This build out of our physical infrastructure in the region will allow us to provide a superior service to our clients trading into and within Asia by enhancing the performance, scalability and
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has welcomed Belektron as a new market maker on the Derivatives Market for Emission Allowances. Since January 2015, Belektron has been active as a market maker on the EUA Spot Market and has provided buy and sell orders on the EUA Futures Market since the beginning of this month.   "We are pleased to be able to extend our market making services on the spot market also to the EEX carbon derivatives market. This will further strengthen Belektron's position as a major player in the European carbon markets," says Boštjan Bandelj, director of Belektron.  
IP Trade, a provider of real-time communications and collaboration systems for trading floor environments and operations dispatch centres, is expanding its presence throughout Europe. IP Trade is capitalising on recent growth across all business segments in the region, responding to industry consolidation and preparing for a major buying cycle as customers migrate from legacy platforms.   Jean-Francois Geys, chief executive of IP Trade, says: “We already have had significant customer wins in England, France, Ireland and Luxembourg, and with our increased focus in Europe, we expect 50 per cent revenue growth in the region in 2016. As a European company,
Inter-dealer broker Tullett Prebon is teaming up with GMEX Group to develop a hybrid voice and electronic trading platform for FX options. The new FX Options trading solution is designed to enhance Tullett Prebon’s offering to its clients, integrating GMEX’s request for quote (RFQ) technology with Tullett Prebon’s existing central limit order book (CLOB) capability.   GMEX Technologies, supported by its development partner Forum Trading Solutions, will provide its bespoke trading system and market surveillance solutions for the FX options trading platform.   David Perkins, managing director, electronic broking at Tullett Prebon, says: “This latest initiative highlights our intent to
Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Eris Euribor and GBP LIBOR interest rate futures reached a record monthly volume of 8,185 contracts in July, surpassing the previous monthly record of 1,719 contracts which was set in June 2016. ICE Futures Europe launched Eris Euribor and GBP LIBOR interest rate futures contracts in June 2015. The ICE Eris GBP LIBOR future is the first Sterling denominated interest rate swap future to trade on-exchange and be centrally cleared. The contracts are based on the product design of the Eris Exchange’s US dollar-denominated standard and flex swap future contracts.   “We are pleased with the increasing levels of
The World Gold Council and the London Metal Exchange (LME), together with Goldman Sachs, ICBC Standard Bank, Morgan Stanley, Natixis, OSTC and Societe Generale, are to introduce a suite of exchange-traded and centrally-cleared precious metals products. The initiative has been driven by the need for greater market transparency, to support and aid ongoing regulatory change, provide additional robustness to the precious metals market, broaden market access, make trading more capital efficient and trade lifecycle management easier.   LMEprecious will be developed to accommodate the interests of the full range of market stakeholders and to reinforce the strengths of the London market.
Neuberger Berman has extended its high yield capabilities with the addition of a global high yield bond strategy. The new Dublin-domiciled UCITS vehicle, the Neuberger Berman Global High Yield Bond Fund, will use the resources of the group’s USD37.6 billion high yield franchise – which spans the US, European and emerging market high yield sectors.   Patrick Flynn (pictured), an experienced portfolio manager on Neuberger Berman’s USD7.8 billion High Yield Bond Fund, will lead the new strategy – in collaboration with colleagues from the US high yield team and the managers behind the group’s European high yield bond strategy and
One of the biggest issues with risk when it comes to investing is that investors will invariably think about it in binary terms; what is the level of risk? Is it too high or too low? Of greater import, however, is understanding the composition of risk.  Given where the funds industry is today, as end investors’ return expectations increase they become increasingly limited in the type of risk that they can take. This has the unintended consequence of decreasing the efficiency of the overall portfolio as it becomes more and more concentrated in one type of risk.  The job of

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