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CME Group saw agricultural products reached a record of 2,873,291 in trading volume on 30 June, 2015, surpassing the previous record of 2,856,869 set on 26 June, 2015.
CME Group also confirmed records in daily trading volume for the following CBOT grain and oilseed products:
• Combined Corn futures and options volume reached 1,122,398, compared to the previous record of 1,091,950 set on 26 June, 2015.
• Corn futures reached 845,770, surpassing the previous record of 796,786 on 26 June, 2015.
• Combined Soybean futures and options volume reached 722,777, compared to the previous record of 649,908 on 26 June,
- 02/07/2015
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has launched “Gateway”, its Irish UCITS platform solution which is designed to support asset managers seeking to establish and market UCITS in Europe.
The solution provides access to an investment fund structure, Gateway UCITS Funds, which allows asset managers to establish UCITS compliant funds as separate sub funds within this umbrella structure. Sub funds can be established quickly and marketed independently.
With significantly lower start-up and running costs, asset managers can benefit from a model which is more cost efficient than establishing a standalone fund. The funds also benefit from an infrastructure that offers
- 02/07/2015
- 02/07/2015
For any hedge fund manager, winning a mandate from a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is the Holy Grail. These are the biggest institutional investors on the planet and also offer, potentially, the stickiest capital given their multi-year investment horizons.
One should therefore take encouragement from the fact that SWF allocations to hedge funds have steadily risen from 31 per cent in 2013 to 33 per cent today, according to the latest research by Preqin in their Hedge Fund Spotlight June report. But the fact remains that SWFs remain under-allocated to the asset class; 60 per cent do not invest at
- 02/07/2015
VAM Funds (VAM) and Close Brothers Asset Management (CBAM) have teamed up to offer discretionary fund management (DFM) services to non-UK-based advisers and their clients.
Increasing uptake of discretionary fund management services comes as international advisers move away from self-selecting and managing investment portfolios on an ongoing basis for clients.
CBAM’s award-winning expertise is normally only available in the UK but will now be available in the international market exclusively through the VAM Discretionary Funds. This arrangement will see VAM bring three diversified multi-asset, risk-rated investment portfolios to international investors via a Luxembourg-domiciled UCITS IV fund structure. The funds’
- 02/07/2015
Alternative asset manager Duet Group has recruited Michel Danechi and Kalim Aziz as fund manager and research analyst respectively, from Armajaro. The pair will launch the Duet Emerging European UCITS Fund in July with approximately USD100 million.
Duet believes that recent events in Eastern Europe and the broader region have created a very attractive entry point for the firm’s investors.
Duet Emerging Europe will add to Duet Group's strong emerging market and commodities franchise. The EM range includes frontier, MENA and Africa funds as well as a range of frontier and emerging market private equity funds.
Danechi (pictured)
- 02/07/2015
Arabesque Partners, the London and Frankfurt-based asset management firm, has appointed Dr Robert G Eccles (pictured) as the company’s first Chairman with immediate effect.
Currently Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, Eccles arrives at Arabesque with a reputation as a global leader in transparent reporting and sustainable value creation through environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.
An award-winning academic and author of twelve books including ‘The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives and Materiality’, Eccles is the founding Chairman of the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and a steering member of the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC).
- 01/07/2015
Alternative investment manager Mariner Investment Group has appointed Dmitry Green as Chief Risk Officer (CRO). Green, who joins from Saba Capital where he was Managing Director and CRO has a strong track record managing investment risk from a number of blue chip alternative investment firms.
Green will be responsible for monitoring investment risk across all of Mariner's businesses. He will be a member of the firm's Investment and Risk committees, and will report directly to Mariner's operating committee.
"Dmitry brings extensive experience and an impressive history of managing investment risk for some of the industry's leading investment firms," says Bracebridge
- 01/07/2015
CV Holdings has entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement and an Investor Rights Agreement with an affiliate of Tricadia Capital Management in connection with the sale in a private placement of shares of newly created Non-Convertible Senior Preferred Stock shares of Common Stock of the Company.
The Tricadia investment is expected to replace the existing funding source for the Company's co-investment requirements on its NPL business. The Company is currently evaluating several other investment opportunities and, subject to Tricadia's approval, may decide to pursue one or more of them.
The Investor may purchase up to USD50.0 million of Preferred
- 01/07/2015
Lyxor Asset Management has cemented a reputation for its hedge fund solutions expertise, but as regulation and investor preferences change, the firm has evolved to offer multi-management solutions to support investors in fund selection, portfolio construction and infrastructure services.
Lyxor’s multi-manager solutions draw on the broad range of underlying investments on Lyxor’s investment platform including managed accounts, external hedge funds, ETFs and mutual funds.
The result is a range of commingled, dedicated and advisory solutions that spans the spectrum of liquidity, risk/return and strategy options to support global investors in meeting their idiosyncratic needs.
“There have been a number of
- 01/07/2015
How QuantConnect’s open source algorithmic trading platform is empowering quants to launch trading strategies at low cost…
Quantitative trading strategies, sometimes referred to as ‘black box’ strategies because of the complex algorithms that power them, have long been a source of mystery to investors. Run by proprietary trading desks, hedge funds and individual traders with PhDs in mathematics, quantitative finance and physics (aka “Quants”) these black box strategies have operated in rarefied air.
Until now that is.
New York-based QuantConnect is an open source, community-driven algorithmic trading platform. The firm has a simple vision: to bring quantitative trading to the
- 01/07/2015
- 01/07/2015
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