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Jim Bumpus has joined Columbia Threadneedle Investments as National Sales Manager.
Bumpus will lead intermediary sales and distribution in the broker dealer and independent channels and report to Joe Kringdon, Managing Director, Head of Intermediary Distribution.
In this role, Bumpus will oversee an established and experienced sales team and be responsible for expanding the firm’s business relationships with US intermediary partners.
“We are pleased to welcome Jim to Columbia Threadneedle Investments,” says Kringdon. “His extensive experience and demonstrated focus on clients reinforces our commitment to our distribution partners.”
Bumpus brings nearly 30 years of experience in financial services, including multiple
- 04/08/2015
American Century Investments has expanded its line of alternative mutual funds and created a new brand – AC Alternatives from American Century Investments.
The new suite of mutual funds includes the new subadvised multi-manager AC Alternatives Income (ALNNX-Investor Class) fund and two existing American Century-managed mutual funds, Equity Market Neutral (ALHIX-Investor Class) and Market Neutral Value (ACVVX-Investor Class). The latter two have been rebranded with the AC Alternatives moniker.
American Century has engaged Perella Weinberg Partners Capital Management to provide investment management and allocation services and to recommend and interact with sub-advisors for AC Alternatives Income, as well as two
- 04/08/2015
Sidley Austin has appointed Rupert Wall as a partner in the firm’s Global Finance practice in London.
Recognised in legal directories as one of the brightest young partners in the London market, Wall brings a broad range of structured finance experience to Sidley’s securitisation and structured finance practice. In particular, Wall has led the structuring and restructuring of securitisation deals across a broad range of asset classes, including trade receivables, credit-card receivables, auto loans, vehicle rental fleets and mortgage loans, and a broad range of structures, including CLOs, ABCP conduits and whole business securitisations.
“Rupert's decision to join us is
- 04/08/2015
CME Group and FTSE Russell have entered into a licensing agreement establishing CME Group as a global partner for futures, options on futures and OTC cleared products on FTSE Russell.
"We're pleased to partner with FTSE Russell to help investors around the globe better manage equity index exposure," says CME Group Executive Chairman and President Terry Duffy. "Together, we will provide market participants with the capital efficiencies of trading multiple indexes on one platform and through a single clearing house."
"We are delighted to have signed an agreement with CME Group to develop a range of equity index futures products
- 04/08/2015
Eze Castle Integration has expanded its Information Security Consulting Service to Hong Kong and Singapore.
Eze Castle Integration's security consultants provide development and audit services for Written Information Security Policies (WISP), enabling clients to address the administrative and technical safeguards necessary to withstand a cybersecurity incident.
The financial industry is facing mounting cybersecurity threats while regulators are calling for higher levels of preparedness. Eze Written Information Security Services are provided by Eze Castle's security and compliance consultants who follow a proven methodology from assessment and analysis to implementation and maintenance. Key elements include:
– Conducting Operational and Technical Risk Assessments;
- 03/08/2015
Omni Partners has hired Rajesh Shanmuganathan as Marketing and Investor Relations Manager. Shanmuganathan will be based in Omni’s London office.
He will be working with the existing marketing and investor relations team, which has grown from one to six people over the past three years. Rajesh’s main focus will be the Omni Event Fund (YTD performance +15% through 30 June 2015).
Rajesh has more than 12 years of experience in the alternatives investment industry within Europe and Asia. After graduating in Management Sciences he joined FRM (now a division of Man Group), where he became Vice President on the
- 03/08/2015
Heading into the summer break, companies have continued to report earnings above expectations, especially in Europe. In the US, health care and consumer goods & services companies posted solid earnings, beating expectations as well. Yet, risk assets were under pressure, leading to negative returns for hedge funds this week.
- 03/08/2015
Celoxica, a provider of accelerated market data, order entry and pre-trade risk solutions for the electronic trading community, has launched the Celoxica Ticker Plant (CTP) for OPRA.
OPRA, the Options Price Reporting Authority, which provides market data for 12 US options exchanges, is set for a substantial growth in message volumes later in 2015 when new options exchanges ISE Mercury and BATS EDGX Options go live. OPRA’s message capacity at that time is projected to be in excess of 50 million messages per second.
Celoxica’s CTP is a distributed ticker plant designed specifically to handle these unprecedented message volumes.
- 03/08/2015
With capital so portable in today’s world, investment dollars continually seek to find homes where it makes most economic sense acknowledge market experts. With confidence gradually returning to the global investment markets, it is no surprise that jurisdictions are dusting off their offerings, upgrading them and actively competing once more for new business. Guernsey is no exception and the jurisdiction is banking on the appeal of its range of investment structures, which it hopes will help it compete effectively against strong fund brands (such as UCITS), particularly in the open-ended fund segment.
Guernsey boasts in excess of a trillion US
- 03/08/2015
The London Metal Exchange (LME) is enhancing the procedures for establishing the Closing Prices on its open outcry trading floor, the Ring.
The refinement is designed to increase the efficiency of the final trading session of the day (the afternoon ‘Kerb’) following a marked increase in activity during this period over the past five years.
The change will see the introduction of an additional bell to signal the end of carry trading one minute before the close of three-month trading for each metal or group of metals.
“Over the past five years the volume traded during the afternoon Kerb session
- 03/08/2015
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