More than half (56 per cent) of executives at hedge fund and PE funds believe regulatory enforcement has decreased under the Trump administration, and 85 per cent view the US regulatory environment as more relaxed than it is internationally. That’s
A new report entitled ‘Alternative Investments 3.0 – digitize or jeopardize’ from KPMG International and CREATE-Research finds that digital technologies are radically reshaping the alternative investment industry, but a large majority of hedge funds and private equity firms appear to
Exchange Data International (EDI) has launched a new Option Analytics service, which covers over 10 million options and futures contracts and 10,000 issuers. The service uses daily updates and historical data to provide end-of-day analytics and reference data for US
Linedata, a solutions and outsourcing services provider to the investment management and credit finance industries, has launched an enhanced version of its business process management (BPM) tool, Linedata Optima, to unlock operational, fund and system data. This latest update introduces
A new report sponsored by Linedata examines the application and benefits of distributed ledger technology (DLT) to the buy-side and what is required from both partners and regulators to facilitate, accelerate and maximise those benefits. ‘Distributed Ledger Technology – An
Quantitative Brokers (QB), an independent provider of algorithms and data-driven analytics for futures and US cash treasury markets, has launched a new trade simulation tool on the Bloomberg App Portal. The two complementary apps enable traders to use QB’s electronic trading
Mosaic Smart Data, a real-time capital markets data analytics company, has completed an USD9 million investment round to support its rapid product development and global expansion. The round was co-led by CommerzVentures and Octopus Ventures and includes JP Morgan –
Institutionally priced funds gathered over USD600 billion of net new fund flows in 2017, according to data released today by Broadridge Financial Solutions. At the end of 2017, 50 per cent of actively managed institutional fund assets were from retail
Thomson Reuters is now offering an Investment Research Marketplace on its flagship desktop product Eikon, a solution that enables buy-side firms to purchase research from sell-side contributors designed to inform and complement their investment processes. This solution also helps facilitate
DNCA Finance, an asset manager with EUR25 billion in AuM and part of Natixis Global Asset Management group since 2015, has deployed Alphametry Investor, a cloud-based research management solution, to its entire organisation. Alphametry Investor helps asset management firms control
