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Cowen Group has appointed Kevin LoPrimo (pictured) as managing director – head of international prime brokerage at Cowen Prime Services (Cowen Prime).
Mike Rosen, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Prime Brokerage Services, says, “Cowen has been laying the groundwork for our entry into the prime brokerage and outsourced trading business in Europe for many months and we are pleased to welcome Kevin to our leadership team. We believe that his extensive international prime brokerage expertise will help accelerate the implementation of Cowen Prime’s platform in Europe and Asia and the introduction of our comprehensive solutions to investment managers in
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Russ Oxley is to leave Old Mutual Global Investors with immediate effect following a difference in opinion over the future strategic direction of the firm.
Adam Purzitsky and Paul Shanta have now been appointed as Co-Heads of the Absolute Return Government Bond team (ARGB team), which was perviously run by Oxley (pictured), reporting to Paul Simpson, Investment Director.
Purzitsky and Shanta joined Old Mutual Global Investors in early 2015 along with the other members of the ARGB team. They have been instrumental in the management and development of the Absolute Return Government Bond strategy over the last seven and eight
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Distribution is a critical consideration for those wishing to market their hedge funds into Europe. But regardless of whether that fund is UCITS-compliant or an AIF, the continuous evolution of European regulation means that managers have to stay one step ahead, and evaluate just how much of an impact it will have on their marketing distribution strategies.
The following report will provide an assessment of current market regulation, how that is impacting the distribution of AIFs, and, importantly, what some of the key regulatory developments are in the pipeline that managers need to be aware of.
Section A: What’s on?
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SS&C Technologies Holdings has launched SS&C Global Gateway, a new SaaS platform for web-based portfolio management, analysis and reporting.
Specially designed for insurance companies and other buy-side asset managers, SS&C Global Gateway is a SaaS-delivered platform that makes comprehensive investment reporting and analytics simple through dynamic dashboards that are easily customised by the end user, and SS&C's best-of-breed technology on the back end delivered through transparent services. The result is more sophisticated analytics and superior functionality than SaaS platforms powered by one-size fits all back-end solutions.
SS&C Global Gateway handles a very broad range of asset classes — including fixed
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Nomura Research Institute (NRI), a provider of consulting services and system solutions, has launched VOLCS, an ASP (Application Service Provider) multipurpose management system for financial institutions.
VOLCS provides two functions such as due day management for structured bonds and OTC derivatives as well as cash management, and the former is usually not available in an existing enterprise system. Each function can be used independently and thus can be used by non-financial firms depending on their purposes.
Most recently, structured bonds and OTC derivatives have been receiving more attention due to the effects of stock price changes and Japan’s negative interest
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Linedata has appointed Sébastien Nantas as Director of Marketing & Communications.
Nantas will report directly to Anvaraly Jiva, founder and CEO of Linedata, and will manage the marketing and communication activities for the entire Group.
Nantas is a graduate of NEOMA Business School, and has almost 20 years’ experience of institutional marketing and communications in the asset management sector. He has specifically held various positions in these fields at SGAM (now Amundi), and then at Natixis AM, Edmond de Rothschild Asset Management, and Tikehau IM. He has contributed to the design and launch of various financial products as part
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ABS Investment Management, an alternative investment management firm specialising in global equity long/short solutions with USD5 billion in assets under management, has launched the ABS Long/Short Strategies Fund.
The Fund is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 as a closed-end, non-diversified, management investment company (1099 RIC) and is a conversion from a predecessor global equity long/short product and comes with a five-year track record. This fund is available to US accredited investors and has an initial minimum investment of USD25,000.
"This new product structure will allow ABS to reach a broader client base due to its lower
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The XBT Provider instruments Bitcoin Tracker One (COINXBT) and Bitcoin Tracker EUR (COINXBE) have resumed trading at Nasdaq Nordic in Stockholm following the acquisition of XBT Group by Global Advisors (Jersey) Limited (GAJL).
Nasdaq has approved Global Advisors (Jersey) Limited as the new guarantor of the ETCs (Exchange Traded Certificates). Bitcoin Tracker One and Bitcoin Tracker EUR are designed to provide investors with convenient and liquid access to the returns of the underlying asset, bitcoin. XBT Provider is at all times fully hedged, and always holds bitcoins equivalent to the value of ETCs issued.
Johan Wattenström (pictured), CEO and co-founder
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Linedata has integrated its Global Hedge Portfolio Manager with Electra Information Systems’ (Electra) Electra Reconciliation.
The creation of a purpose-built interface provides hedge fund managers with immediate integration through an adapter created and supported by both Linedata and Electra.
Traditional account reconciliation (positions, transactions and cash) and management of non-standard matching and reconciliation such as system-to-system, P&L, collateral, security master data and pricing data are now easily achieved for Linedata users.
The combination of Electra Reconciliation with Linedata Global Hedge Portfolio Manager is deigned to automate the identification of exceptions and provide greater visibility into the exception management
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Algorithmic trading is taking hold in foreign exchange – in part due to fallout from the 2013 FX “fixing scandal.”
Foreign exchange represents one of the world’s biggest, most liquid and most electronic marketplaces. But while algorithmic trading has become a standard in global equity markets, algos have been much slower to gain traction in FX.
A new report from Greenwich Associates, FX Fixing Scandal Drives Adoption of Algos and TCA, shows that the proportion of volume-weighted FX trading executed algorithmically by algo-trading users has increased two and a half times in the past three years.
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