Some of the most senior men and women in the global hedge fund industry have put forward their collective vision of the hedge fund firm of the future in a major new report published by the Alternative Investment Management Association
New Street Research has appointed Bryan Fingeroot to a senior sales role in the Americas effective 16 April, based in New York. Fingeroot has an extensive background in equity sales and marketing, having most recently been MD and Head of
The number of Jersey Private Funds (JPF) had increased 25 per cent in six months. Figures from the Jersey Financial Services Commission (JFSC) showed that the number of JPFs, a structure introduced in 2017 to cater specifically for the needs
QuantHouse, a provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure products and part of Iress (IRE.ASX), today announced that they are partnering with SpiderRock Gateway Technologies. SpiderRock Gateway Technologies has added its proprietary
Business information provider IHS Markit has added 35 cybersecurity risk factors on more than 3,000 public companies to Research Signals, its quantitative equity research product. The cybersecurity risk factors are based on security ratings from BitSight, a leading provider of
FactSet, a provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications has launched the Open:FactSet Marketplace, a new online platform that offers both financial and alternative data. This launch marks a significant milestone for FactSet’s fast-growing Content and Technology Solutions business,
A survey of US RIAs by PPB Capital Partners has found that while firms are encouraged to provide customised alternative investment solutions for high net-worth clients, such funds prove unwieldy and expensive to operate. Among respondents, 62 per cent described
StatPro Group, an AIM-listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has migrated a key StatPro Revolution portfolio analytics engine to the Microsoft Azure Data Lake Analytics platform. StatPro Revolution’s cloud processor
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global representative of alternative asset managers, has published a position paper entitled ‘Brexit and Alternative Asset Managers: Managing the Impact’. The paper offers a detailed assessment of what will need to be addressed
Argentex, an FCA regulated provider of foreign exchange services to corporate and private clients across EMEA, has been ranked the world’s most accurate forecaster of GBP/USD and EUR/USD currency pairs by Bloomberg. The rankings have placed Argentex as the most
