With capital raising becoming even more of a Sisyphus-like exercise for hedge funds, any form of solution that can help make the process a little easier is welcome. Equally, investors are looking for more effective ways to screen, assess and
Hedge Connection, the alternative investment platform connecting investment managers with asset allocators, has selected five charities to benefit from The Pitch, a “Shark Tank” style asset allocation competition. Each competing investment manager will donate to one of the five
EBS, ICAP’s industry leading electronic FX business, is preparing to launch a new global liquidity platform, EBS Select, to complement the company’s existing multi-product offering. EBS Market, the flagship platform, is a central limit order book with pre-screened bi-lateral credit
GBST is to integrate and offer the in-memory computing capabilities of the SAP HANA platform with its financial transaction tax product, GBST Syn~FTT. The bundled solutions are expected to allow investment banks and stockbrokers to process equities trades in compliance
Asia Pacific Stock Exchange (APX) has gone live with its new trading platform powered by Nasdaq's X-stream Trading technology, as well as Genium FIX to power its APeX trading platform. The upgrade will strengthen the exchange's technological performance using the
With cloud-based processing and data storage being embraced by hedge funds and fast becoming the norm, there are enormous opportunites to be harnessed. Derivitec has turned to Microsoft’s hybrid offering – Windows Server 2012 & Windows Azure. Here, Derivitec’s George
In today’s world our retail lives are governed by ease of choice. Whether it’s iTunes to download our favourite artist or Amazon to peruse the latest range of tennis racquets, as consumers it’s never been easier to find what we
ALTIN, the USD270m multi-strategy fund of hedge funds achieved a very positive investment performance in 2010 of +12.47%, easily outperforming the funds of hedge funds index, HFRI FoF (+5.67%). ALTIN continued with a strong start to 2011, up 2.48%
An innovative new platform has emerged in Pfaffikon, Switzerland that could potentially revolutionise the way investors gain access to global hedge fund managers. The platform is called Fundbase and is the brainchild of Michael Appenzeller (pictured), its co-founder and president.
Schroders is to launch another externally-managed fund on its GAIA platform, Schroder GAIA Paulson Merger Arbitrage, subject to regulatory approval. As it’s name suggests, the fund’s strategy is fundamental merger arbitrage, investing mainly in US, Western European and Canadian large
