Total volume in equity derivatives futures and options registered through NYSE Liffe’s Bclear OTC wholesale service has just passed 250 million, setting a new record for the fourth consecutive year. Bclear provides a cost-effective way to register and process wholesale
Mariner Holdings has acquired a controlling interest in Palmer Square Capital Management, an alternative investment management firm based in Kansas City that specialises in funds investing in hedge funds and private equity funds. Mariner chief executive Marty Bicknell (pictured) says:
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index (HFI) posted positive performance in March, up 0.12%, with five out of ten strategies in the index posting positive performance for the month. Emerging Markets was the best performing sector in March,
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global securities data, has launched the African Economic Data Service (AFED), a source of macroeconomic and financial data for all 54 countries in Africa. For the first time, this new service provides AFED’s
Final performance for the Credit Suisse/Tremont Hedge Fund Index has been confirmed up 2.11 per cent in November, bringing year-to-date performance to 17.53 per cent. Managed futures and global macro led the performance among sectors, returning 4.94 per cent and
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co has added a new Equity Securities Lending team to the Cantor Prime Services Group with the hiring of Securities Lending veterans Allen Wolkow and Janah Angelou, who will co-manage the effort. Wolkow and Angelou were co-founders
Investors are looking forward to 2010 as a year of moderate economic growth, benign inflation and solid returns in global equities, according to the BofA Merrill Lynch survey of fund managers for December. Optimism about the economy strengthened this month.
Eze Castle Integration, Inc has released its 2011 Hedge Fund Operations & Technology Benchmark Study of more than 220 hedge funds and alternative investment firms. The study provides insight into the operational decisions being made by fund managers, examining their
The GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2011 stands at 2.45%, a decrease of 0.81% from March 2011 and a decrease of 0.38% from a year ago. “The Indicator is near its all time low when measured over the past
Deutsche Bank’s global prime finance division has launched a hybrid custody version of prime brokerage, named DB Integrated Prime Custody. Several large European clients have signed up for the new platform and hundreds of millions of euro value in
