Seventy one per cent of buy-side heads of trading and FX regard automation as their biggest priority, followed by 49 per cent who cite finding alternative methods to source liquidity as their prime concern. That’s according to the finding of
Amid extreme volatility and general uncertainty in global markets, BCS Global Markets is offering free access to its high-quality research on the Russian equity and bond markets both in Russian and English until 1 July.
Crux Informatics is integrating a flagship product from SIX, Valordata Feed (VDF), which covers 29.7 million instruments for pricing, corporate actions reference data as well as compliance and regulatory data. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
By Philip Young, partner, Cooke, Young & Keidan LLP For years people in the markets have been asking when the sovereign and corporate debt bubbles – fuelled by ultra-low interest rates and quantitative easing – would finally burst.
Investors are divided over how their hedge fund allocations have performed during the recent market crash, a new industry survey has found. Investment consultancy bfinance polled 260 investors – including pension funds, insurers, foundations and endowments and family offices – in
The vast majority (88 per cent) of buy-side traders see see the shift to block trading in the dark as a positive outcome of MiFID II, according to a new report from Liquidnet on the ability of traders to source
The global hedge fund industry’s shift towards greater customisation and bespoke products is rapidly gathering momentum, as allocators pile into managed accounts and sector- or country-specific strategies, with ESG concerns also increasingly to the fore, according to a new industry
Where will institutional investors be focusing their alternative asset allocations over the next 12 months? What are the top-line issues they have when assessing managers, and how are their expectations changing? These are some of the questions covered by Intralinks’
ETF data provider ETFGI reported today that assets invested in the global ETF/ETP industry extended their lead over assets invested in the global hedge fund industry to USD1.70 trillion at the end of Q1 2018, an increase of 4.91 per
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for March 2020 measured 3.11 per cent, up from 2.83 per cent in February.“SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for March 2020 was 3.11 per cent, lower than the 3.49 per cent reported for redemptions in
