Over the past 12 months the S&P 500 index has gained nearly 24 per cent. With the US economic recovery building momentum, the UK enjoying its fastest period of growth since 2007 and the Eurozone returning to some sort of
After a successful trading career spanning 20 years at Mizuho Corporate Bank London, Curtis Adams has moved his team to launch a new fixed income hedge fund under the Ovington name on 1 February 2011. The Ovington team will initially
The worst of the recession is behind us and improving economic conditions during the second half will help boost equity prices, with stocks likely to outperform all other asset classes
NYSE Euronext and Juniper Networks are working together to design an ultra-low latency core network for NYSE Euronext’s new consolidated global data centres.
The first two funds on LFG’s Liquid Alpha UCITS Platform (LAUP) have gone live. The funds, which both launched on 1 February 2011, are CastleRock Asset Management’s US Liquid Equities Fund, and Sabre Fund Management’s All Weather Fund. CastleRock launched
Standard Life Investments (SLI) has completed the launch of its best-selling Global Absolute Return Strategies portfolio (GARS) to European investors. Structured as a sub-fund forming part of Standard Life Investments’ Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV range, the Fund is now available in Denmark,
The Royal Bank of Scotland has partnered with Victor Sperandeo, known as Trader Vic and chief executive of Enhanced Alpha Management, to develop a managed futures index designed to enab
In spite of having registered significant investor appetite in recent years, empirical research on Alternative UCITS is a rare commodity. The major contribution of a new Lyxor research report is therefore to give investors a precise measure of the main
List Group, a provider of global trading solutions, has integrated its multi-asset FastTrade trading platform with BGC Partners’ electronic trading platform, eSpeed, for US Treasuries a
Execution, an agency-only global broker dealer, has opened a New York office as part of its long-term US growth plan.
