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Eons Energy Investment, a Cayman Islands-registered investment management company founded in 2015 by Weber Su and Jeff Shen, both based in Beijing, has selected Wells Fargo Global Fund Services to provide fund administration services for its first fund. “We selected Wells Fargo Global Fund Services as our fund administrator because of its keen insights into the investment management business, low employee turnover, and stability as a financial institution. We appreciate the company’s experience dealing with valuation in today’s increasingly complex global capital markets and the fact that the team shares our commitment to risk management,” says Eons Energy Investment Managing
The Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDiX) has launched the world’s first commodity exchange for physically settled diamonds. The SDiX platform aims to standardsze global trading in diamonds as an asset class. The launch of the exchange represents the most significant change in global diamond trading practices in hundreds of years. The platform is designed to enable accredited investors to trade diamonds as an asset class for the first time by providing an independent, electronic, and regulation-ready global market that creates a transparent price discovery mechanism for diamonds. As a result, banks, financial firms and investors will for the first time
More than 55 per cent of total revenue from Saxo Bank’s private clients is now generated from trades on SaxoTraderGO, just a year after the launch of the the platform.   Half a year ago, SaxoTraderGO was rolled out to the bank’s white label partners and today more than 100 white label partners are live with GO, offering their end clients the platform in the 28 supported languages. Saxo Bank has also unveiled a new global equities market overview on SaxoTraderGO incorporating a number of new modules – Indices, Gainers and Losers, News, Calendar Events and Overview Chart. Saxo Banks
Eric Syz is to step down from his role as a director of Swiss alternative investment company ALTIN AG following the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) on 9 May. The move comes after what the company describes as ‘constructive discussions’ with its largest shareholder, Alpine Select AG. Peter Altorfer who joined ALTIN’s Board of Directors in 2010 and has acted as Chairman since April 2011 had announced in an earlier media release dated 14 April 2016 his decision not to stand for re-election. Thomas Amstutz, a representative of Alpine Select AG, together with Dieter Dubs and Gerhard Niggli will join
Chicago-based RJ O'Brien & Associates’ (RJO) London-based affiliate RJ O'Brien Europe Limited (RJO Europe) has hired Peter Jerrom and John Burt as Senior Vice Presidents, Listed Foreign Exchange (FX) Brokers. David Mudie, Chief Executive Officer of RJO Europe, says: "Peter and John are seasoned FX brokers and terrific additions to the team here, reinforcing our commitment to client-focused, best-in-class service. We continue to expand and round out our institutional specialty areas from the UK, and this represents our first London-based emphasis on exchange-traded FX. It's a great complement to our growing global over-the-counter FX business that Tony Dalton is heading
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

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