A total of 60 per cent of institutions believe that settlement failures attributed to inadequacies of the middle-office are still a significant problem in their organisation, according to a new global survey conducted by Torstone Technology, a SaaS provider of
Private debt strategies continue to gain investor traction, as institutional allocators look to increasingly esoteric ‘alternative’ fixed- income- style products, according to interviews with global and boutique investment consultancies conducted by Hedgeweek.
Australian investors are showing an increased interest in hedge funds after the sector demonstrated its robustness during the pandemic, and are now seeing how they could provide opportunities for protection against the spectre of inflation. This is the view of Scott Pappas, Head of Alternatives and Derivative Solutions at
FINCAD, a specialist in providing pricing, modelling, and risk analytics, has partnered with Fite Analytics, an innovator and provider of bond data and analytics solutions, to expand its derivatives analytics services with comprehensive fixed income data and insights. Read the
Macrobond, a provider of global economic, aggregate financial and sector data for finance professionals, has onboarded an additional 32 customers globally in Q2 2021, including economic consultancies, corporates, asset managers and large pension funds – the most significant growth for
Digital asset investment products saw inflows of USD489m last week, the largest inflows since February this year, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares. The high inflows conceal varied flows amongst providers with many seeing
As global economies prepare to unlock, potentially driving up inflation and interest rates, hedge funds’ low sensitivity to rate moves can help bolster investors’ portfolio performance, says K2 Advisors, the hedge fund investing unit of Franklin Templeton.
Procensus, an opinion sharing community for institutional investors, has launched a premium service which extends access to the platform’s benchmarking data to corporates, capital markets bankers, alternative asset managers and regulatory authorities, providing them with enhanced market intelligence. Read the
More than a quarter of decision-makers in buy-side financial firms (28 per cent) cite fragmented and unreliable data management infrastructure that struggles to cope with increasing data volumes as the biggest data management challenge they face, according to the results
A London based alternative investment manager with in excess of USD1 billion of assets under management has signed an annual license for Insig AI’s proprietary Data Tool. This contract win follows successful client testing and enables the client to structure
