Despite the US edging closer to a bipartisan deal that would raise the country’s borrowing limit, Nigel Sillis (pictured), Director of Research, Fixed Income and Currency Team at Baring Asset Management in London, still believes it’s a case of ‘when’
Tom Winnifrith (pictured), manager of the SF t1ps Smaller Companies Gold Fund, has described the proposed US debt ceiling deal as a “pathetic compromise which will not convince anyone and which must cause US debt to lose its AAA rating
Montréal Exchange (MX), Canada’s derivatives exchange, is to introduce a new futures product based on the performance of the FTSE Emerging Markets Index. Scheduled to begin trading on 13 June 2014, the FTSE Emerging Markets Index Futures (MX-EMF) are targeted
Last month saw the Institutional Investor Committee (IIC), chaired by Douglas Ferrans, announce the creation of a newly formed Advisory Council. The nine-member board will meet on an ad hoc basis to discuss pertinent issues affecting the institutional investor community.
State Street has opened its new Irish headquarters in Dublin. By the end of this year, the new 165,000 square foot building, located at 78 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, will house more than 1,100 State Street employees across its global
Having the right people, processes and technology is fast becoming a prerequisite for hedge fund growth, according to a PwC paper published today. ‘Infrastructure: from cost to benefit – hedge funds 2.0’ examines the impact of the crisis on the
By John Landy, Intralinks – The discovery of the Heartbleed bug serves as a wake-up call to hedge funds and alternative investment managers. A single line of buggy code has put millions of web servers and users at risk of
Maples Finance, a fund services provider, has expanded its European service offering in Luxembourg following the recent grant of its Registrar Agent licence by Luxembourg’s financial supervisory authority. Tom Davies, senior vice president and head of the Luxembourg office, says
Natixis Global Associates and Absolute Asia Asset Management have launched a multi-cap stock fund, the Absolute Asia Dynamic Equity Fund. The fund invests in the Asian equity markets (excluding Japan) and offers an opportunity for investors to participate in Asian
One of the unintended consequences of technology improvements in the hedge fund industry has been the sheer volume of data that service providers, in particular fund administrators, are required to manage on a daily basis. ‘Big data’, ‘data management’, ‘data
