ENSO Financial Analytics, a portfolio finance and treasury solution for hedge funds and prime brokers, has received the ISO (International Organisation for Standardisation) 27001:2013 Certification from EY CertifyPoint. This international certification specifically addresses ENSO’s Information Security Management System (ISMS) for
Boutique asset manager Unigestion has launched Uni-Global – Alternative Risk Premia, an actively managed strategy to provide investors with cost-effective and liquid sources of returns modestly correlated to equity and bond returns. It complements Unigestion’s existing line of direct alternative
London-based specialist European equity asset manager Argonaut Capital plans to launch an income-focused European equity fund, subject to FCA approval. The Argonaut European Income Opportunities Fund will aim to achieve a yield far higher than the overall index, through selectively
Insch Capital Management has launched the Gold Income Actively Managed Certificates (AMC) powered by Insch’s award-winning Kintore (Bidirectional Gold) strategy. The firm writes that the investment objective of the Gold Income version of the Insch Kintore strategy is to generate
The London Stock Exchange’s (LSE) proposed merger with Deutsche Börse may not now go ahead after the LSE ruled out selling its 60 per cent stake in fixed-income trading platform MTS. The European Commission had ordered LSE to sell its
Corporate debt specialist Muzinich is launching two funds to be managed by the loans team who recently joined from ECM Asset Management (ECM), a Wells Fargo Asset Management company. Muzinich announced in the summer that it had hired Torben Ronberg,
Abel Noser has finalised the management-led buyout (MBO) of the firm along with private equity fund Estancia Capital Partners. The transition of the business to the second generation of senior management after the retirement of its founding partners aims to
HFR reports that total capital invested in Emerging Markets (EM) hedge funds climbed to a record level to begin 2017, as energy commodities and the US dollar posted strong gains. Assets dedicated to EM funds increased to USD200.7 billion (1.38
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for August 2017 measured 0.90 per cent. Hedge fund flows meanwhile, as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index, advanced 0.13 per cent in September. “SS&C GlobeOp’s
Following the appointment of Mike Ward in October 2016 to head new business development, Global Prime Partners has launched a new structured products business. Matt Robinson will serve as head of structured products sales, while Ross Trotman has been appointed
