Quantopian, the investment management firm that provides a free online platform to write investment algorithms, has made allocations of tens of millions of dollars to some of the best of its crowd-sourced algorithms. The allocations range from USD100,000 to USD3
Neptune Networks, a fixed income market network for pre-trade indications in bonds, has completed connectivity to FlexTrade’s buy-side EMS platform, FlexTRADER, to distribute pre-trade data to assist investors with liquidity and price discovery within existing workflows. With 22 dealers committed to
MSCI, a provider of risk and performance analytics, has selected Caissa as a distribution channel for HedgePlatform, MSCI’s hedge fund transparency content set, which covers more than 1,400 hedge funds. Caissa will distribute HedgePlatform content through Portfolio Navigator, its portfolio
The board of trustees of the Blackstone/GSO Long-Short Credit Income Fund (BGX) has approved a change in the fund’s investment guidelines. The change will increase the fund’s ability to invest in long investments while maintaining the limit of the fund’s
Trumid, a financial technology company that improves trading efficiency and market intelligence in the corporate bond market, is to acquire fellow all-to-all trading platform Electronifie. The acquisition will increase the size and diversity of the Trumid user network and strengthen
Ultimus Fund Solutions has been selected to launch and service the Peachtree Alternative Strategies Fund, a non-exchange traded closed-end fund. The fund, which originally started as a private fund of hedge funds, converted to a registered 1940 Act investment company,
ERIC (Electronic Research Interchange), a marketplace for institutional investment research, has released the latest iteration of its platform and launched a research management dashboard which enables asset managers to better identify the worth of the research consumed within their organisation.
100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF) held its eighth annual Gala in Geneva at the Grand Hôtel Kempinski, raising over CHF210,000 for the benefit of Solidarité Femmes. The net funds raised will specifically be used for a project providing mentoring
London-based Garraway Capital Management has announced that it is to build on its strong 2016 performance with a programme designed to build its assets. Its Irish UCITS fund, Garraway Financial Trends, was launched in 2012, becoming a ‘pure’ UCITS strategy
XM Group (Trading Point Group), an FX and CFD broker, has launched the MT5 platform with offerings of over 300 CFDs on single stocks. The launch follows a series of testing phases which have made sure the additional platform is
