Arisaig Partners, the USD3.8 billion ultra long-term public equities investment boutique, has unveiled a new impact strategy, the Arisaig Next Generation Fund, which targets listed businesses in emerging and frontier markets that are generating positive social and environmental impacts for
The January 2017 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR6,458 million, down 25.6 per cent compared to January 2016 and down 10.8 per cent from the previous month. The average daily transaction value on
Nasdaq Commodities and Saxo Bank are teaming up to offer small and medium sized companies (SMEs) in the Nordic region direct access to Nordic Power futures on Saxo’s fully integrated trading and risk management platform. The addition of Nasdaq Nordic
Matthew Hepler, a partner at hedge fund Mercato Capital Management, has been appointed to the board of directors of Terex, with immediate effect. Prior to joining Marcato, which is a significant shareholder in Terex, Hepler was a managing director at
Almost three quarters (71 per cent) of asset managers believe that using alternative data gives them an investing edge over competitors, according to a new study by Greenwich Associates commissioned by business information provider IHS Markit. Some 74 per cent of
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is to pay a USD85 million civil monetary penalty to settle CFTC charges that over a five-year period from January 2007 through March 2012, through the acts of multiple traders, RBS attempted to manipulate
Imation Corp has launched an investment adviser subsidiary, GlassBridge Asset Management. In conjunction with the launch, Imation has concluded the transition of its principal business activities to become a publicly-traded alternative asset manager. Imation intends to rebrand as GlassBridge
Acuity Trading is expanding its team with the appointment of Vladislav Novopoltsev as a Product Manager and Gustavo Avalos as a Data Scientist. As a Product Manager Novopoltsev will be based in Acuity’s Spanish office in Barcelona where he will utilise
Alternative asset manager FS Investments has appointed Chris Condelles as head of capital markets and investor relations (IR). Condelles will serve as an executive vice president based in the firm’s Philadelphia headquarters. In his new role, Condelles will help
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has published a guide for investment managers to help them understand and implement the requirements of the European Union’s updated Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID2). The guide to the directive, which comes into
