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Nikko Asset Management has appointed Yuichi Alex Takayama as Global Head of Sales (International Business). Concurrently serving as Head of International Business Development and Sales Planning Division, he will collaborate closely with overseas unit heads and senior sales managers in formulating the company’s international sales strategies. Takayama has more than 20 years of asset management experience, spanning Tokyo, New York and London, mainly as a portfolio manager and senior analyst for Chuo Mitsui Trust & Banking (now Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc.) and Mizuho Trust & Banking Co., Ltd. His most recent postings were as Chief Executive Officer of the
Alpine Select has requested an Extraordinary Shareholders’ Meeting for ALTIN AG over the distribution of a special dividend. Alpine Select currently holds directly and indirectly 58.5 per cent of ALTIN shares. According to the motion submitted, shareholders are asked to decide at the meeting on a cash distribution in the total amount of CHF 4.00 per registered ALTIN share. The total distribution of CHF24 per registered ALTIN share is – according to the relevant shareholder request – to be executed by means of a capital reduction by repayment of par value in the amount of CHF16.97 per share and by
Saemor Capital’s Europe Alpha Fund lost 2.6 per cent in April, bringing the YTD performance to -10.6 per cent. Most of the losses came from strong performances in the fund’s short book.  As equity markets and commodity prices continued their rebound, market participants favoured higher risk and lower quality names, essentially the laggards of last year. Cyclical Value saw strong positive returns, while most other factors in our model suffered.  Price momentum, profitability, growth and stability were particularly weak, while earnings momentum also displayed a negative pay-off.  The picture was very similar to that of February and March, with the
McKay Brothers International (MBI) has added new points of presence in Marseille and Madrid. The new POPs are receive sites for MBI’s private bandwidth subscribers who transmit from Slough-LD4, Basildon and Frankfurt- FR2.  Marseille and Madrid are also distribution POPs for the Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service. The bandwidth and market data services offer the lowest known commercial latency. For example, select futures market data sourced in Aurora, IL is distributed in Marseille in 41.552 milliseconds and in Madrid in 43.978 milliseconds (one-way).   “Marseille and Madrid are key locations for our subscribers,” says MBI managing director Francois Tyc. “Marseille
The total automation rate of processed orders of cross-border funds reached 85.4 per cent in the last quarter of 2015, which represents an increase of 2.8 percentage points (p.p.) compared to the fourth quarter of 2014.  That’s according to a new report from The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) and SWIFT on the evolution of automation and standardisation rates of fund orders received by transfer agents (TAs) in the cross-border fund centres of Luxembourg and Ireland in 2015. The report is an on-going campaign by EFAMA and SWIFT to highlight the advancement of automation and standardisation rates of
Philadelphia area-based ALTZ Investment Strategies (ALTZ) has launched an alternative investment platform aimed at providing accredited individual investors with access to private opportunities. These investments, usually reserved for institutional investors, can be accessed through the ALTZ website, where users register as accredited or aspirational investors, open a brokerage account, browse and, if eligible, allocate funds toward featured private placements. Once ALTZ-registered investors have collectively raised the capital required to invest, their money is aggregated and allocated to the company offering the private placement. “We wanted to provide individual investors the chance to not only view private placement opportunities, but to
Marex Spectron, the global commodities broker, has launched Nanolytics Capital Advisors, a business focused on developing alternative investment products based on Marex Spectron’s Nanolytics models. Nanolytics was initially developed to meet the challenges in commodity markets that arose from the growth of High Frequency Trading (HFT). Utilising Marex Spectron’s institutional-scale infrastructure and systems, Nanolytics algorithms process billions of publicly-available data points, covering multiple commodity markets, to exclude the effect of HFT trades and deliver insights into the underlying demand-supply balances that signals likely future price movements (alpha signals).   Since March 2014, these alpha signals have formed the basis for
ENSO Financial Analytics (ENSO), a provider of a data analytics platform for hedge funds and prime brokers, has launched ENSO Edge, an emerging manager offering built from the award winning ENSO Core platform. The launch of this new global platform will provide a scalable solution for the daily needs of a growing manager’s treasury and portfolio finance operations. ENSO Edge will offer analytics to hedge funds that fit a specific client profile based on assets under management and number of financing counterparties. Managers will be able to easily add additional modules and tools to support their developing needs.   By
Linedata has partnered with Sycamore Investment Services in Shanghai, to provide a complete front to middle-office service to the hedge fund community in China. The partnership will provide Sycamore’s middle office outsourcing services alongside Linedata’s flagship hedge fund management offering, Linedata Global Hedge. This will create a full service for hedge fund clients in China, in particular allowing those firms without complete fund operations to access the full capabilities of the Linedata product with the addition of an outsourcing capacity. Designed specifically to meet the needs of the hedge fund industry, Linedata Global Hedge is an intuitive end-to-end portfolio management
Euronext is in exclusive talks to acquire a 20 per cent equity stake in EuroCCP for EUR14 million (including contribution to regulatory capital) subject to closing adjustments and regulatory approval.  In addition, Euronext will offer choice in clearing within the Eurozone through the implementation of a preferred Central Counterparty (CCP) model for its equity markets. EuroCCP is the leading CCP for pan-European equity markets providing clearing and settlement services and this new partnership will allow clients to benefit from significant operational and cost efficiencies. Following completion of this transaction five shareholders will each own 20 per cent stake in EuroCCP

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