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Hedge fund performance was broadly positive in April, with the HFRX Global Hedge Fund index returning 0.4 per cent on the month and each of the four HFRX main hedge fund strategy indices recording positive performance.
GAM portfolio manager Anthony Lawler (pictured), says: “Dampened volatility allowed managers to hold positions and eke out positive returns. The largest beneficiaries were more directional strategies as stability in the macro environment drove gains, but positioning remained light and trends are not being chased aggressively.”
In the global macro space, the month was broadly positive for discretionary managers although tougher in the systematic
- 06/05/2016
InvestCloud, a digital applet platform for the financial services industry, supporting 660+ advisors and institutions with USD1.5 trillion on platform, has launched BB8, a new group of advanced applets.
BB8 consists of a fully integrated CRM, Pipes, and a full-suite of Client Communication, Client Management, and Client Automation capabilities on the InvestCloud Digital Platform.
At the firm's annual global user conference in Las Vegas today, InvestCloud announced that it is taking its mission of any investment manager and financial institution can have a first-class integrated platform in the cloud much further. InvestCloud is delivering an integrated client experience with
- 05/05/2016
- 05/05/2016
Sapient Global Markets, a provider of business technology and consulting services for the financial and commodity markets, has launched RegRecon, which is designed to solve industry issues surrounding low match rates and regulatory reporting accuracy.
As regulators require institutions to establish processes for identifying and resolving data discrepancies, trade reconciliation tools are essential for gaining a fast, accurate understanding of exposures and enable firms to efficiently monitor risk and manage collateral.
Sapient Global Markets’ RegRecon addresses these needs through automated trade matching and reconciliation, break management, and resolution workflow. Available as a standalone solution and managed service, or within
- 05/05/2016
YieldStreet has launched the world’s first tech enabled specialty finance and alternative lending platform connecting accredited investors to asset based investments.
YieldStreet is designed to offer opportunities that are backed by collateral, have low market correlation, and generate strong yield, such as loans secured by real estate portfolios, litigation finance investments or even a loan to an NBA player secured by his contract. Investments have low minimums starting at USD5,000 with average target yields in the mid-teens. In the past, such options were exclusively available to ultra high net worth individuals, hedge funds or institutional investors.
Founder and CEO, Milind
- 05/05/2016
Style Research, an independent, global provider of portfolio style, risk and performance analytics, is launching a product to enable investment professionals to directly compare fund portfolios based on style factors.
Peer Insights provides users with deep, independent insight into portfolios, removing much of the speculation and hyperbole that exists in the industry.
With more than 20,000 mutual funds now vying for attention, it's become increasingly difficult for investors to distinguish between portfolios, and for fund managers to stand out from the crowd. Users of Peer Insights can compare portfolios and fund managers either on a standalone basis or against industry
- 05/05/2016
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a new registration form in 2015 for alternative trading systems (ATS), Form ATS-N, which would make details for each platform’s broker-dealer affiliates and operations publicly available.
The proposal would impose new transparency requirements on all ATSs, also referred to as “dark pools,” which accounted for 15 per cent of total industry volume and 39 per cent of off-exchange volume in 2015.
TABB’s latest market note, “ATS Transparency: The Industry Weighs In on Proposed Form ATS-N,” recaps market participants’ concerns and lays out specific areas for enhancements that TABB believes will ensure an effective
- 05/05/2016
GBST Holdings Limited (GBST) has released the findings of its initial study into blockchain technologies for international capital markets participants.
Tracking the ongoing benefits of digital disruption, the “Four scenarios for Blockchain in Capital Markets” discussion paper identifies the importance of distributed ledger technology and smart contracts as they potentially reduce inefficiencies and costs, as well as create new market infrastructure capable of challenging traditional capital markets operators. With a recent push by global consortiums to establish common standards for blockchain technology and further encourage its use across the wider financial services industry, the discussion paper is well timed for
- 05/05/2016
Eurex Clearing has connected Bloomberg as an approved trade source for EurexOTC Clear, the Interest Rate Swaps Clearing offering of Deutsche Börse.
With the addition of Bloomberg, traders using Bloomberg’s electronic trading or post-trade voice confirmation systems can now directly submit their OTC trades for clearing on Eurex Clearing’s OTC CCP. The first trade to be successfully cleared using this direct connectivity was between Société Générale and Zürcher Kantonalbank.
The direct connectivity enables Bloomberg’s large sell- and buy-side community to benefit from straight through processing (STP) of their OTC transactions, reducing time to market and providing a valuable improvement for
- 05/05/2016
McKay Brothers International has added Euronext equity index futures to its industry-leading Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service. The QED service now offers select Euronext instruments at the lowest known latency at major UK trading centres.
Latency to Slough-LD4 is 273 microseconds, Interxion-LON2 is 140 and Quincy’s Central London POP adjacent to the LSE is 142. “Risk takers and risk managers understand that quickly receiving and processing key exchange data can meaningfully impact performance,” says MBI Managing Director Francois Tyc. “We are pleased to offer Euronext data at the lowest known latency to QED subscribers.” MBI’s UK Local millimetre network connects
- 05/05/2016
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
- 05/05/2016
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