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Custom House Fund Services, a provider of financial services to the alternative investment sector, is to release significant enhancements to its Gateway technology platform over the next few months.
Gateway is the company’s web based portal that connects fund servicing with solutions across the middle and back office, designed specifically for US alternative investment managers.
Among the new features will be the ability to extract flash reports of information already on the platform, deliverable for specific timeframes; expanded reporting features including the capability to produce graphs with pricing information; the ability to overlay third-party data to provide a more
- 03/06/2015
CBOE Holdings is to acquire the market data services and trading analytics platforms of Livevol, a provider of equity and index options technology and market data services to professional and retail traders.
The acquisition, which has been approved by the board of directors of both CBOE Holdings, Inc. and Livevol, is expected to close by 30 June, 2015. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
According to the agreement, CBOE Holdings will acquire the Livevol Core, Livevol Pro and Livevol X trading analytics platforms, as well as Livevol Enterprise and other market data solutions products. Livevol
- 03/06/2015
Elian, a provider of corporate services, fund services, private wealth and capital services, has extended its international footprint with the opening of an office in New York.
The New York office will support Elian’s fast-growing and comprehensive range of corporate services, including corporate structuring, structured finance and asset finance. The office will also support Elian’s broad range of administration services to private equity, real estate and hedge fund managers.
The office will be led by managing director John Wallace (pictured), who has over 25 years' international financial markets experience. Wallace has held a number of senior positions in New
- 03/06/2015
- 03/06/2015
Average daily volume in VIX futures in May on the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) totalled 174,923 contracts, an increase of 9 per cent from April 2015 and 22 per cent from May 2014.
Total volume in VIX futures for May was 3.5 million contracts, an increase of 3 per cent from the previous month and 16 percent from a year ago.
Exchange-wide ADV at CFE was 174,972 contracts in May, an increase of 9 per cent from April 2015 and 21 per cent from May 2014. Exchange-wide total volume during the month meanwhile, was 3.5 million contracts, an
- 03/06/2015
HedgeCoVest, the first real-time hedge fund replication platform, offering advisors and retail investors real-time replication of hedge fund strategies directly into their brokerage accounts has formally launched following four years of R&D and beta testing.
HedgeCoVest offers . HedgeCoVest, which has over 1,500 beta users, combines the unique liquidity, security and transparency advantages of a separately managed account with the long/short investment strategies of hedge funds to satisfy investors’ demands for a better way to invest in alternatives.
“The traditional limited partnership investing model is being disrupted,” says Evan Rapoport, CEO of HedgeCoVest. “Until now, only ultra-high net worth investors
- 02/06/2015
- 02/06/2015
Northern Trust has established a registered investment advisor subsidiary, 50 South Capital Advisors, which will provide investors with customised solutions through its access to private equity and hedge fund managers in the small- and mid-market segments.
Led by Managing Director Robert P Morgan, a 25-year veteran of financial services and private equity, along with a dedicated team of highly experienced investment professionals, 50 South Capital builds on Northern Trust’s history of developing multi-manager strategies for investors. The new company, with $4.3 billion in assets*, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Northern Trust Corporation, and its clients will benefit from increased
- 02/06/2015
Vertex One Asset Management, manager of over CAD2.1 billion in assets through six investment funds in Canada, including one of the country’s largest hedge funds – the Vertex Fund – has seen significant growth due in part to the firm’s adoption of Linedata Global Hedge.
Vertex uses Global Hedge platform for real-time P&L, valuation, trading, reporting and compliance.
“I see Linedata’s distinguishing feature as being the team behind the technology,” says Rob Binnington Manager of Operations and Marketing at Vertex One. “They strive to form partnerships and display a dedication to providing a customised solution. Generally, everyone has capable technology
- 02/06/2015
In its latest Investment Outlook to investors, London-based hedge fund Fasanara Capital explains how liquidity-induced markets are prone to asset bubbles and how VaR shocks are now inevitable.
According to Fasanara, such causes have to be found on the markets’ thin liquidity, low inventories, abundant leverage, crowded consensus trades and stretched valuations.
Fasanara maintains a bearish view on the global economy and it believes that a strenuous battle against deflation will eventually force Central Banks into more monetary printing activities. As a result, Fasanara expects both, bond and equity prices, to rise from current levels.
Specifically, Fasanara expects the
- 02/06/2015
Backstop Solutions Group has acquired Cogency Software, a provider of accounting solutions for multi-manager investment firms.
Cogency’s clients are some of the world’s leading Fund of Funds, Endowments, Pensions, Outsourced CIOs, and Family Offices who collectively represent over USD100 billion of assets on the Cogency platform.
With the addition of Cogency, Backstop will further expand its capabilities, particularly in the areas of partnership accounting and portfolio management. Backstop also gains a seasoned team, new customers and two additional offices that increase their footprint in key locations – New York and California.
“We are very pleased about the addition of
- 02/06/2015
MarketAxess Holdings, the operator of an electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, and the provider of market data and post-trade services for the global fixed income markets, has appointed Scott Eaton as Chief Operating Officer for MarketAxess Europe Limited and Trax.
In this role, Eaton will oversee business operations for Europe, reporting to Rick McVey, Chief Executive Officer of MarketAxess. Eaton's focus will be on further growing the European business, by working with the MarketAxess and Trax teams to continue delivering innovative trading, data and post-trade solutions that help clients meet the challenges of the evolving regulatory landscape.
Eaton was
- 02/06/2015
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