Dash Financial is to merge with LiquidPoint to create a new trading technology solutions provider focused on the options and equities markets. Dash Financial is an institutional trading technology, execution and analytics provider, while LiquidPoint is a provider of options technology
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&PDJI) is now publishing carbon metrics on the majority of its equity indices, including the S&P Global 1200, S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and environmentally-focused indices including S&P Global 1200 Carbon Efficient Index Family and
Artisan Partners has launched the Artisan Global Discovery Strategy, which is available on a separate account basis and via the Artisan Global Discovery Fund, an Irish-domiciled UCITS fund. The strategy is managed by the Artisan Partners Growth Team, with Jason
Marble Point Credit Management has acquired American Capital CLO Management (ACCLOM), an investment manager with approximately USD3.4 billion in assets under management across eight collateralised loan obligation (CLO) vehicles as of December 2016. The acquisition is expected to provide meaningful
Barclays Bank PLC, as index sponsor of the Barclays Global Carbon Index Total Return – the underlying index for the iPath Global Carbon ETN – has announced that the index will be retired effective 27 October, 2017. The index will
Smaller hedge fund managers will continue to outperform during 2017, according to Don Steinbrugge Managing partrner of Agecroft partners, who has revealed what he sees as being the top hedge fund industry trends for the coming year. Steinbrugge highlights that, year to date
Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team has released a report on the performance of active mutual funds versus their benchmarks in 2016. The team writes that it would be an understatement to say that active investing has been challenged in 2016.
Euronext has made an irrevocable EUR510 million all-cash offer to LCH.Clearnet Group Limited (LCH.Clearnet Group) and London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to acquire LCH.Clearnet SA (Clearnet). Clearnet is a leading, multi-asset, Eurozone-based Central Counterparty (CCP) serving Euronext’s markets, pan-European electronic
Prophecy Asset Management, a New York-based allocator and seed capital source for equity long/short hedge fund managers, has allocated USD30 million to a portfolio created by Birch Island Capital, a private investment firm in Cambridge, MA founded by a team
Nuveen, an operating division of TIAA Global Asset Management, has completed the liquidations of the Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund (CFD) and the Nuveen Long/Short Commodity Total Return Fund (CTF). As previously announced, each fund’s shares ceased trading and were delisted
