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Phase 2 of GMEX Technologies’ project to implement the warehouse receipt system AvenirWRS at the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE) in Malawi, is now live.
This latest project phase delivers warehouse receipts creation, management and financing. Associated activities include enhanced contact management and accounting functions for warehouse charges and fees. The solution also extends SMS messaging, documentation and auditing functionality.
The implementation follows the successful launch of the contact database functionality, in February in phase 1, allowing operators and agents (e.g. farmer cooperative societies, brokers etc.) to set-up and maintain a database of farmers who are interested in taking
- 19/05/2016
Four out of six of IndexIQ’s family of IQ Hedge Indexes recorded positive performance in April, with the IQ Hedge Long/Short Index leading the way with a return of 1.25 per cent.
The other positive performers were the IQ Hedge Market Neutral Index (0.91 per cent), the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Index (0.78 per cent) and the IQ Hedge Event Driven Index (0.38 per cent). The month’s biggest loser was the IQ Merger Arbitrage Index with a return of -1.01 per cent, while the IQ Hedge Global Macro Index returned -0.28 per cent.
“The upturn in equity markets started to look
- 19/05/2016
Managed futures traders lost 0.05 per cent in April according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index has gained 0.95 per cent in the first four months of 2016.
“Improvement in the financial outlook for the US, Europe, and China while central banks sat on their hands sparked a trend reversal in the bond markets,” says Sol Waksman (pictured), founder and president of BarclayHedge.
Six of Barclay’s eight CTA indices had negative returns in April; two of the indices were profitable. The Agricultural Traders Index lost 1.08 per cent, Financial/Metals Traders were down 0.69 per cent.
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- 19/05/2016
The typical CEO of an asset management company has many things on his mind, but data cleanliness is unlikely to be top of the list. It really ought to be, though, for several reasons.
Take the sales team
When they visit prospective institutional investors, having confidence in the accuracy of the asset manager’s fund data is hugely advantageous. And here’s why: any given institutional investor has a limited window of time throughout the day to manage portfolio allocations and decide on its composition. When they embark on doing due diligence on a new fund, they have one tool to rely
- 19/05/2016
Eze Software Group has appointed Brad Rinklin as Senior Managing Director – Marketing.
Prior to joining Eze Software, Rinklin spent over 15 years at Akamai Technologies, a Content Delivery Network services provider, where he served as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Alliance Sales.
“I am pleased to welcome Brad to Eze Software as we continue to invest in our growing business,” says Pete Sinisgalli, CEO. “Brad’s exceptional background in technology, innovation and growth, as well as his long tenure as the chief marketing officer of a leading technology service provider, will be instrumental as
- 19/05/2016
Vertical Management Systems (VMS), a provider of data, financial networking and account aggregation technology, has partnered with Exchange Data International (EDI), a specialist in supplying securities reference data, corporate actions and closing pricing information.
The partnership is aiming to enable VMS to expand into the distribution of domestic and global securities data. Coupling VMS’ mutual fund data solutions with EDI’s reference data services allows VMS’ clients to receive all their required information from a single trusted source.
“EDI is a natural partner for us and our clients,” says Kevin Rafferty (pictured), president and CEO of VMS. “We see a
- 19/05/2016
Jürg Hunziker has been appointed Group Chief Markets Officer and deputy CEO of the Avaloq group. The former SunGard executive will join Avaloq as of 1 June 2016 as a member of the Group Executive Board.
With Jürg Hunziker, Avaloq wins a proven expert and experienced international leader. He has over 30 years of experience and brings with him a wealth of knowledge from the financial software, technology and banking industries. Hunziker joins Avaloq’s Group Executive Board from SunGard, where he spent 27 years. Among other major achievements, he founded SunGard Europe and played an essential role in launching and
- 19/05/2016
Worth Venture Partners, an emerging manager hedge fund platform headquartered in Manhattan, has released a new paper titled "Accessing Emerging Hedge Fund Returns – Seeking Return Over Size" as part of a series of commentaries, Worthy Insights.
Investors are considering greater investment in emerging hedge fund managers in reaction to the recent underperformance of many blue-chip hedge funds versus historical returns. Increasing emerging manager allocations, notably from institutional investors, originate from a desire to source sustainable alpha. This paper shines a light on current options for investors wishing to execute in this fertile part of the hedge fund universe.
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- 19/05/2016
Hedge funds were severely impacted by US stock market performance in Q1, according to the latest S&P Global Market Intelligence Hedge Fund Tracker, an aggregate analysis of hedge fund equity ownership.
In total, the top funds managed approximately USD141 billion in equity holdings in Q1, down over USD18 billion from Q4 2015. The funds also decreased the total number of stock positions held from 427 to 408, the fewest stock positions held since S&P Global Market Intelligence began tracking this data in 2014. Consumer discretionary and information technology stocks led the sell-off, with Apple ranking as the most sold-off
- 19/05/2016
- 19/05/2016
A recent report produced by BNY Mellon in collaboration with Preqin shines a light on how much demand there is among institutional investors for private equity and real estate funds. The report found that 44 per cent of real estate managers and 39 per cent of private equity managers expect their assets under management to grow by at least 50 per cent in the next five years.
Family offices (26 per cent) and public pension funds (25 per cent) are expected to be the main drivers of inflows, as they look to build long-term allocations and reduce their weighting on
- 19/05/2016
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