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
Institutional investors will be targeting alternative investments over the next two years, with infrastructure assets generating the greatest interest, according to the latest issue of The Cerulli Edge-Global Edition. Of the 56 European institutions surveyed by global analytics firm Cerulli
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
The hedge fund industry is transforming, with managers increasingly focused on customised products and solutions, new investors, and emerging markets. That’s the conclusion of "Growing Up: The new environment for Hedge Funds," a new report produced by KPMG International,
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: GCAP), a global provider of online trading services, has reached an agreement with Deutsche Bank AG to acquire dbFX, Deutsche Bank’s retail foreign exchange trading business. The agreement also provides for the referral of retail
Centurion Fund Managers has obtained regulatory approval from the CSSF in Luxembourg for its fourth open-ended longevity fund, the first in the market to combine macro and micro longevity. The professional investor fund, which is called the Centurion Longevity
JP Morgan Worldwide Securities Services has launched its Repo Trade Matching Engine. This new functionality will enhance the operating model of the US Tri-Party Repo market, in support of the May 2010 recommendations of the Tri-Party Repo Infrastructure Task Force sponsored
The international derivatives exchange Eurex will launch equity options based on 30 of the most liquid British stocks on 18 January 2010. With this new product suite, Europe’s largest derivatives exchange will for the first time offer British pence denominated
