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The London Metal Exchange (LME) has launched a new education offering for market participants as it focuses on greater market engagement to expand the business globally.
“The LME’s training programme is instrumental in driving forward the Exchange's market engagement and outreach strategy,” says Paul MacGregor, LME Head of Sales. “Enabling a greater understanding of the LME and how it operates will help us to grow business in new markets.”
The LME’s three-day introductory course – an essential tool in helping market participants understand how the Exchange operates – will now be run by specialist education provider Euromoney Training. The LME
- 08/01/2015
Calamos Investments has launched two new mutual funds, the Calamos Global Convertible Fund and the Calamos Hedged Equity Income Fund as of 31 December, 2014.
"These new funds are a logical extension of our product suite, leveraging the core competencies of the firm. We have managed global convertible strategies for institutional clients for 20 years, and have managed US convertibles for more than 35 years. Additionally, we were an early leader in the liquid alternatives space launching one of the first liquid alternatives mutual funds in the early 1990s," says John Calamos, Sr, Chief Executive Officer and Global Co-Chief Investment
- 08/01/2015
December was a volatile month across asset classes, with a sell-off in risky assets occurring mid-month before some losses were recovered by month-end, according to GAM.
The MSCI World index ended the month down 1.6%, while the Barclays Global Aggregate Bond index declined 0.7%. Credit, as measured by the iBoxx Liquid High Yield index, was down over 4% through mid-December, before rallying to end the month at -1.0%. This volatility across asset classes proved challenging for active managers. Hedge funds ended the month down 0.8%, as measured by the HFRX Global Hedge Fund index. Global macro was the only positively
- 07/01/2015
First Derivatives has evolved its Delta software platform, powered by kdb+, into marketing analytics through the launch of Delta Marketing Cloud.
This demonstrates Delta’s ability to find applications beyond the Capital Markets sector and is the first new vertical market for the Group since it secured a majority stake in Kx Systems. The move is supported by the signing of a number of key pilot customers.
The explosion of digital and mobile marketing across all vertical markets is driving the need for technologies that can provide real-time analysis of large data volumes, which the Delta platform is ideally placed
- 07/01/2015
The amount of capital invested by venture capital fund managers in young companies reached USD87bn in 2014, over 58% more than the capital invested in 2013. Preqin’s Head of Private Equity Products, Christopher Elvin (pictured), analyses the latest data:
Over the past year, a total of 7,474 venture capital financings were announced globally with an aggregate value of USD86.6bn. This represents an 11% fall in the number of financings taking place compared to 2013, but a 58% rise in the aggregate value of deals compared to the previous year.
*Figures exclude add-ons, grants, mergers, venture debt and secondary stock purchases
- 07/01/2015
Hollis Park Partners, a global structured products investment management firm, has formed a strategic partnership with alternative investment manager GCM Grosvenor.
Hollis Park, which will invest in a diverse range of structured products around the globe, launches with significant investment capital from GCM Grosvenor and other institutional investors.
"We believe today's environment presents attractive and rapidly changing opportunities across a wide spectrum of structured products including Agency and Non-Agency mortgage-backed securities, CLOs, CMBS and asset-backed securities, and we will seek to dynamically allocate capital across a number of strategies," says Troy Dixon, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner of Hollis
- 07/01/2015
Aeon Funds, a family of alternative investment funds, has launched the Aeon Fiber Opportunity Fund LP.
The fund’s structure complements the Aeon Multi Opportunity Fund which focuses on Pre-IPO investments in the most notable VC backed technology companies in the world today.
Aeon Funds has expanded its management team and commenced fundraising for this exciting new addition to the Aeon family. The Aeon Fiber Opportunity Fund will initially invest in the installation of military grade fibre-optic cable in gated communities throughout the US Southeast. As a significant validator of the market opportunity, Aeon management estimates there are approximately 35,000 communities
- 07/01/2015
The world's hedge fund have a benign attitude towards 2015 market conditions and the investment outlook for the year ahead despite a deterioration in observed financing conditions and tightening of liquidity.
That’s according to a survey by Aksia which also reveals that AIFMD legislation is imposing considerable difficulties on managers of all sizes, with smaller managers particularly impacted and the majority of managers becoming entirely reliant on reverse solicitation.
In the fourth annual institutional hedge fund manager survey, Aksia polled 187 managers collectively representing in excess of USD1 trillion in AUM.
Managers say that liquidity and financing are
- 07/01/2015
Trading activity at CBOE Holdings reached new all-time highs in total volume and average daily volume (ADV) in 2014.
CBOE Holdings consolidated trading volume for options contracts on Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and C2 Options ExchangeSM (C2SM) and futures contracts on CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) totalled 1.3 billion contracts, an increase of 12 per cent over the 1.2 billion contracts in 2013. Average daily volume was 5.3 million contracts, an increase of 12 per cent from the 4.7 million contracts per day in 2013.
New records for annual total volume and average daily volume were also set at
- 07/01/2015
Singapore Exchange (SGX) derivatives trading hit records in December and the whole of 2014, while securities activities grew in December but declined overall during the last year.
Total securities trading value was USD22 billion, up 8.2% from a year earlier; average daily trading value was USD983 million, up 3.4%. December 2014 had one more trading day than December 2013.
New companies listed totalled seven, raising USD583 million compared with 1 raising USD6.1 billion a year earlier. Bond listings totalled 28 raising USD8 billion. This was 36% up from the amount raised a year earlier.
Derivatives volume was a record
- 07/01/2015
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