Northern Trust has released a white paper outlining key steps investment managers and investors can take to potentially achieve greater transparency in alternative investments such as hedge funds, private equity, infrastructure, real estate and natural resources. The paper, ‘Alts Transparency:
Trade Informatics, a provider of quantitative analytics and systematic trading solutions to institutional asset managers, has released the latest addition to its product suite – Peer Analysis. The buy-side has come to rely on peer reporting to benchmark themselves relative
First Derivatives (FD) has launched a raft of initiatives to put machine learning (ML) capabilities at the heart of future development for the Group’s Kx technology, in direct response to increasing interest from current and potential customers. The new measures
Markov Processes International (MPI), a provider of investment research, analysis and reporting solutions for the global wealth and asset management industry, has released of Stylus Pro Version 11.3. The new release introduces Stylus Workspace, a quantitative research framework for the
Only 42 per cent of EU nationals currently working as investment management professionals in the UK plan to continue working in the country post-Brexit, according to a new survey carried out by CFA Society UK. Some 16 per cent of
Alternative investment company Steben & Co has published a white paper on timing an allocation to managed futures. The firm asks if the asset class has reached a cyclical low. The results of their research show that recent managed futures
Bloomberg and Castine’s respective research management technology and research payment solutions can now be integrated to provide an end-to-end solution for EU and global asset managers who will be operating under MiFID II guidelines starting January 2018. The combined solutions
A survey of professionals working in Malta’s financial services industry carried out by Managing Partners Group (MPG), reveals that the clear majority expect the sector to enjoy strong growth over the next five years. The sector currently contributes just over 12
Wall Street Horizon, an alternative data provider specialising in corporate event intelligence, has launched EventBreaks. This new service, which covers each of the 40+ event types that Wall Street Horizon tracks, provides granular information around how events move, alerting users
Street Diligence, a provider of fixed income analytics software, has launched a new corporate structure offering which is designed to complement the company’s existing buy- and sell-side data and analytics. The new offering enables credit analysts’ access to the most
