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The Perella Weinberg North American Equity Long Short Fund is to launch on the Fidante Partners Liquid Strategies UCITS platform in May, subject to regulatory approval. It will be managed by Perella Weinberg Partners Capital Management (Perella Weinberg). The new fund combines a long short equity strategy with an event driven portfolio to provide diversification and enhance returns. This is the second fund to join the Fidante Partners Liquid Strategies platform, following the launch in July last year of the Keynes Dynamic Beta Strategy Fund managed by Wadhwani Asset Management LLP.    The long short portfolio typically holds between 30
Jabre Capital Partners has launched the European Credit Opportunities Fund on its JABCAP (LUX) UCITS Platform. The fund will apply long, short and paired trading strategies to an unconstrained portfolio of absolute return opportunities in European corporate credit.  The Fund has the ability to invest in all parts of a company’s capital structure and employs a range of investment instruments, investing across the ratings spectrum.  Jabre Capital Partners has appointed an experienced credit team, led by Farid Gargour and Angus Rosborough who are based at Park Vale Capital, in London.  The team of four moved from RAB Capital in early 2016, where they
Estera, formerly Appleby Fiduciary Business, has appointed Roger Siddle as Non-Executive Chairman.   Siddle (pictured) brings a wealth of expertise to independent fiduciary business Estera. His experience covers a range of business areas, including strategy, performance and change management, gained from various professional roles as an advisor, professional services manager and public company chief executive.  For over six years until 2007 he was UK Managing Partner of Bain & Company, a global business consulting firm. Siddle then became Chief Executive of BPP Holdings plc, one of Europe’s largest professional training and education companies and, more recently, Group Chief Executive of
The Post-Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group, which brings together major post-trade industry participants and regulators to share information and ideas about how distributed ledger technologies could transform the post-trade landscape, has announced the appointment of three external advisers.  Ernst & Young (EY) will provide general consultancy around Blockchain and distributed ledger technology, Norton Rose Fulbright will advise on legal and regulatory issues affecting PTDL Group and Citigate Dewe Rogerson will assist with public relations activity.   PTDL Group is also announcing that 37 post-trade financial institutions and prominent market infrastructure companies are now members. The geographically diverse membership includes global
The April 2016 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR6,948 million (-23.4 per cent compared with April 2015). However, the number of shares traded remained resilient (-3.8 per cent). After 21 months of continued growth, the activity on ETFs softened during April 2016 with an average daily transaction value at EUR548 million, down 14.0 per cent compared to April 2015. Nonetheless, our ETF offer continued to expand with the first two listings on Euronext London. The average daily volume on equity index derivatives was down at 211,268 contracts during April 2016 (-16.1 per cent
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has registered its first dry bulk freight derivative trade for clearing last Friday, marking an important milestone for its new global commodities segment.  The trade was registered for 90 lots of the Q4 2016 Capesize 4TC contract at a price of 8,750 US Dollar per lot. The trade was conducted by Gunvor Group company Clearlake Shipping, and another counterparty, having been arranged by the broker Freight Investor Services. Steffen Köhler, Chief Operating Officer of EEX, says: “The trade in our freight sector represents another important landmark for EEX. With these trades, we are entering a
Purdue University's Center for Commercial Agriculture and the derivatives marketplace CME Group are partnering to produce the Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, a monthly nationwide measure of the health of the US agricultural economy. The introduction of this new economic indicator underscores the importance of the agricultural economy and its participants – food producers and agribusinesses – to the overall US and global economies, Purdue and CME Group said Tuesday (May 3) in announcing the partnership. "Agriculture is a critical component of the global economy and has been the cornerstone of CME Group's business for nearly 170 years," says CME
The Portfolio Amalfi™ platform by Nedelma Inc. offers multi-asset, multi-language, multi-currency dynamic reporting and data visualisation, as well as analytical capabilities to the asset management industry. The platform also offers data aggregation tools, portfolio management solutions and a calculation engine. Users can analyse and view data from multiple perspectives using a combination of attributes, formulas and values, with extensive options for dynamic customisation.  Nedelma also has an online investor document repository with document approval workflow and interactive reporting.  "Everybody in the financial industry cares about four factors – improving performance, increasing transparency, raising assets and reducing costs. Our products help
Hatteras Funds, a provider of alternative investment solutions for Financial Advisors and their clients, has restructured its Managed Futures Strategies Fund (HMFIX) to provide greater transparency and reduce overall fund expenses for investors.  Hatteras has cut fees by 20 per cent bringing the total overall expense ratio to 1.99 per cent for the I shares. The Hatteras Managed Futures Strategies Fund (HMFIX) is a multi-manager solution that offers Financial Advisors and their clients a portfolio diversification tool with the benefits of low correlation to traditional stocks and bonds. The Fund provides access to two experienced investment managers, ROW Asset Management
LoCorr Funds has hired Wayne Wagner as Vice President, National Account Manager. Wagner will be responsible for expanding distribution through new selling agreements, deepening existing relationships and expanding partnership opportunities with LoCorr’s top broker/dealer partners. Wagner, who brings nearly 25 years of financial services experience to LoCorr Funds, was most recently with Ameriprise Financial as the VP, Head of Wealth Management Consulting where he built the external Wealth Management Consultant team focused on serving the affluent client base. Wayne also spent more than eight years with Principal Financial Group in Phoenix, where he was a VP/Divisional Sales Manager for the

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