The administrator’s time has come. Once a relatively obscure part of the asset management industry, administration is now in the front line of services to hedge funds.
Confluence, a provider of automated data management solutions for the investment management industry, has opened an office in San Francisco. The company’s fourth office worldwide will enable Confluence to pursue its strategic acquisition goals, while leveraging the area’s top technology
Henning Gebhardt (pictured), head of European equities at DWS Investments, looks at why investors are continuing to see Germany as the European growth engine… The German economy continues to boom. Just a few weeks ago leading German economic research houses
The majority of European hedge fund managers that have set up business over recent years have been in the UK, data from Preqin’s Hedge Fund Analyst shows. The UK is also the most prominent country in terms of hedge funds
Australian absolute return and hedge funds outperformed the ASX200 for the second month running in November, returning 1.98 per cent for the month, according to Australian Fund Monitors. This brings year-to-date performance for Australian hedge funds to 16.62 per cent.
International derivatives exchange Eurex is to launch 19 single stock futures (SSF) on leading Polish companies on 27 June 2011. The new listings reflect customer demand for derivatives based on shares from one of the largest economies in Eastern Europe.
State Street has been selected by Illinois-based Calamos Investments to provide custody, fund administration and securities lending services to Calamos’ collective fund structures. The funds include open and closed end mutual funds, Dublin Ucits and private funds exceeding USD21bn in
By James Williams – As the number of managed account platforms (MAPs) increases, seemingly in response to the growth in institutional investors entering the realm of hedge funds, one might assume that managed account AUM is following a steep upward
Market Data & Analytics is expanding its range of information products with “Eurex ICAP Swap Spreads”. The new data product, which aims to serve as a neutral benchmark for Euro interest rate swaps, was developed jointly with interdealer broker ICAP.
By Tyler Kim, CIO, Maples Fund Services – Institutional investors could be easily overwhelmed by the volume of data that originates out of their managed accounts programs. To avoid this, they require information systems that aggregate position data across multiple
