Beechbrook Capital has held the first close of its inaugural UK SME Credit Fund, with commitments of more than GBP100m. The fund will support UK small and medium-sized businesses with a turnover of between GBP10 million and GBP100 million and
INTL FCStone’s Precious Metals Division’s web-based physical gold trading platform, PMXecute+ has traded nearly 10 tonnes of gold, representing close to USD400 million in value, since its launch in late February 2017. Barry Canham, global head of the Precious Metals
Towards the end of 2015, Global Macro and CTAs experienced mixed fortunes. During November they were able to make returns amidst difficult market conditions. For both strategies, strong tailwinds in FX proved to be beneficial, the Lyxor Global Macro Index
Volumes for North American corporate bonds on International Continental Exchange’s (ICE) Credit Trade electronic trading platform increased to USD5.7 billion of traded notional in the first quarter of 2017, up 52 per cent compared to fourth quarter 2016 notional traded.
ALPS Fund Services is to expand its Denver-based hedge fund administration business with the acquisition of Kaufman Rossin Fund Services (KRFS), an independent, full-service provider of specialised administration services to the financial community. Established in 1994, KRFS has offices in
Friess Associates has launched the Friess Small Cap Growth Fund making the firm’s small-cap services widely available for the first time. Smaller companies played such a significant role in the early growth of Friess Associates that the firm began dedicating specialised
The nature of how research is disseminated and accessed within the funds industry is changing. In some respects, sellside institutions are adopting a Good Cop Bad Cop stance. On the one hand, they are starting to scale back the value
Linedata, a global solutions provider dedicated to the investment management and credit industries, and Electra Information Systems (Electra), a provider of state-of-the-art reconciliation solutions for the asset management industry, have integrated Electra Reconciliation and Linedata Mfact, Linedata’s global fund accounting
The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index (ICI) rose to 108.3 in December 2015, up 1.0 point from November’s revised reading of 107.3, driven by an increase in the European ICI from 96.2 to 103.7 along with the Asian ICI
Intertrust has appointed Cliff Pearce (pictured) asnted Global Head of Capital Markets. Pearce has over 20 years’ experience working in Capital Markets with premier financial institutions and funds, originating and delivering structured finance transactions to a wide range of clients.
