Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), an operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a wholly owned subsidiary of ICE, has launched Insights, a new online thought-leadership platform. Insights
The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index declined 3.7% in September (-5.2% YTD), while the S&P 500 declined 7.2% (-10.0% YTD), the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 5.9% (-3.9% YTD), and the NASDAQ Composite Index decreased 6.4% (-9.0% YTD). Treasury and
The corollary to the recent falls in emerging market equities is that valuations begin to look attractive, says Bill O’Neill, EMEA Chief Investment Officer of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management… The MSCI Emerging Market Index is trading (as at end September)
Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), Deputy Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the Island’s finance industry – explores how a range of factors, including listings capabilities, make Guernsey an attractive domicile for cleantech investment funds… Distinguishing features
Fiona Le Poidevin, Deputy Chief Executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the Island’s finance industry, explores how Guernsey is ideally suited to providing financial products and services for a rapidly developing Russia. Russia straddles Europe and Asia,
GSO Capital Partners, the credit business of The Blackstone Group, has held the final closing of the Blackstone/GSO Capital Solutions Fund with total commitments of over USD3.25bn. The fund’s strategy is focused on providing privately negotiated capital solutions to companies
The hedge fund industry posted an estimated inflow of USD4.0bn, or 0.3 per cent of assets, in May 2010, the third inflow in four months, according to TrimTabs Investment Research and BarclayHedge. But poor performance drove industry assets to USD1.58trn
SkyBridge Capital has committed to make an investment in Viathon Capital’s Whitewater fund. Whitewater is a credit opportunity fund focused on liquid debt instruments of US and European corporate issuers. The portfolio consists primarily of single-name loans and bonds selected through
Prime Management, a provider of fund administration services to the alternative investment industry, is to service three new risk-linked investment portfolios for Elementum Advisors. Elementum, a Chicago-based alternative investment manager specialising in risk-linked investments, will manage the portfolios and Prime
Mosaic Smart Data (Mosaic), a real-time FICC data analytics company, has launched a new feature for its MSX platform enabling users to instantly generate text reports on their trading activity data using machine learning. The feature will be available
