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CBOE Holdings plans to list options on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM) and the MSCI EAFE Index (EAFE) beginning Tuesday, 21 April.
The announcement was made during a CBOE press briefing at the Futures Industry Association conference in Boca Raton, Florida.
In December 2014, CBOE Holdings, Inc. announced it entered into a licensing agreement with MSCI Inc, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, to offer options trading on several MSCI Indexes. Under the agreement, options on the MSCI Indexes will be solely listed for trading in the US on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Options
- 12/03/2015
iMatchative’s new online data analytics, monitoring and matching service for institutional investors and hedge funds, AltX, will now use a data feed from HedgeFund Intelligence’s.
HedgeFund Intelligence’s global database of hedge fund performance tracks over USD2 trillion in assets under management and over 16,000 funds and contains performance information such as investment terms, strategy and historical AUM. The data feed into AltX will feature the US North Americas Absolute Return database of over 5,200 funds.
This partnership comes at an exciting time for iMatchative as they look to disrupt the investor-hedge fund intro market. Within the first year they already
- 12/03/2015
ASPN Solutions has been named Best Aggregation and Reporting System for its front, middle, and back office technology platform, ASPN in the 2015 Hedgeweek Awards
The winners are determined on a peer review basis whereby institutional and high net worth investors, as well as managers and other industry professionals such as prime brokers, custodians and advisers, elect a 'best in class' system. The award was announced at a ceremony in London’s Mayfair district on 27 February.
Ken Akoundi, President of ASPN Solutions, says: “We are extremely excited that ASPN was recognized as a frontrunner by our peers in the industry.
- 11/03/2015
BATS Global Markets (BATS) has hired Kapil Rathi as Vice President, Options Business Strategy.
Rathi joined BATS on 23 February after 10 years in key roles at the International Securities Exchange (ISE) and is working closely with Jeromee Johnson, Vice President, Options Business Strategy, as a senior member of the BATS Options team. Both Rathi and Johnson report to Bryan Harkins, Executive Vice President, Head of US Markets.
Harkins says: “BATS Options has more than doubled in size during the past year and we’re always seeking to bring in top talent to work with the existing team to help continue
- 11/03/2015
Osney Buy-Side has identified the top three challenges currently facing European asset managers: the role of technology in driving growth; the continuing wave of regulation; and lack of standardisation in cash flow management.
These three issues will be addressed at the 14th annual TSAM Europe, which returns to London on 17 March, along with the latest strategies and developments in the asset management industry.
The role and importance of technology in driving growth for the future of the industry is of high importance, and at the front of asset manager’s minds. The issue will be addressed in the event’s
- 11/03/2015
Financial Market Engineering (FME) has begun live trading on Object Trading’s Direct Market Access (DMA) Service Platform.
FME can now offload the burden of designing, managing and maintaining a specialised connectivity solution as they scale across markets globally.
FME, a London-based market maker and proprietary trading firm, has fully implemented the Object Trading DMA Service Platform for production access to 13 markets to date across five collocation centres, allowing them to focus on developing their trading strategies. FME may now easily access normalised market data and order execution on a scalable, high performance global platform with multi broker
- 11/03/2015
Common Sense Investment Management (CSIM) has launched Common Sense Solutions, a bespoke portfolio construction and fund structuring service for institutional investors.
Common Sense Solutions couples 24 years of hedge fund research, investment & operational due diligence with specialised portfolio & fund construction services to offer institutional investors and family offices custom products. The process is designed to meet investors' specifications across varied strategies, geographic and sector exposures and risk-adjusted return targets.
Common Sense Solutions offers a consultative approach to building portfolios that will access CSIM's Hedge Fund Strategies and Liquid Strategies businesses. This will allow investors to focus their portfolios
- 11/03/2015
- 11/03/2015
The hedge fund industry redeemed USD8.9 billion (0.4% of assets) in January, down from December’s outflow of USD28.1 billion (1.1% of assets), which was the largest since April 2009, according to BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research.
“The hedge fund industry has not suffered two consecutive monthly outflows since mid-2012,” says Sol Waksman, president and founder of BarclayHedge. “Hedge funds added USD57.8 billion from February 2014 through January 2015, down 24% from USD75.7 billion in the previous twelve-month span.”
Hedge fund industry assets dipped to a nine-month low of USD2.43 trillion in January, according to BarclayHedge's estimate based on data from
- 11/03/2015
- 11/03/2015
McKay Brothers Microwave has launched a private bandwidth service between Slough and Frankfurt with latency of 4.64 milliseconds (ms) for the round trip, the lowest known.
The company is finalising more routes between the UK and Frankfurt as well as a London Metro service.
“Bandwidth subscribers understand the value of access to the fastest network,” says François Tyč, Managing Director of McKay Brothers International. “McKay’s private bandwidth subscribers leverage our proven expertise in engineering, building and operating the industry’s leading microwave networks.”
MBI anticipates adding the Quincy Extreme Data service to this circuit. Subscribers of the QED service will receive
- 11/03/2015
OpenGamma is working with dealers and other OTC derivatives market participants to deliver an open source model to calculate the margin on bilateral derivatives trades.
The solution will implement the final Standard Initial Margin Methodology (SIMM) being developed by ISDA, which will meet the requirements set by the Basel Committee and due to be implemented by December 2015.
Full transparency and open access to source code for margining will for the first time empower industry participants to have an independent and verifiable calculation framework that is not controlled by any one entity.
The source code used for calculation of margin
- 10/03/2015
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