Rocaton Investment Advisors has formed a partnership with SAF Platform, a New York City based financial technology firm to offer offer private capital and hedge fund research to institutional investors. Potential clients include endowments, foundations, insurance companies, pension funds, family
The Dutch Central Bank has announced that as of 31 March 2018, investment firms dealing on their own account are must meet the requirements of the EU Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). Flow Traders is currently assessing the impact of these
Sprott Asset Management (SAM) is to sell its Canadian diversified fund business to a management-led group, with John Wilson, CEO and co-CIO of SAM, and James Fox, president of SAM, to be co-managing partners of the new firm. The agreement
Although the macroeconomic picture for Europe has been muted in the past 24 months, the continent’s alternatives industry is moving from strength to strength, according to Preqin’s second annual Alternatives in Europe report in published in partnership with Amundi. 2018
Quantopian, which inspires people from all over the world to write automated investment algorithms on its revolutionary free platform, has hired industry veteran Jonathan Larkin as its Chief Investment Officer. Larkin's prior experience spans senior roles at some of the
Irish Funds, the representative body for the international cross-border investment funds industry in Ireland, has welcomed the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee’s (ECON) approval of the final compromise text on the EU’s Money Market Fund Regulation (MMFR). The Committee of
Federal Way Asset Management, an investment management firm offering both alternatives management and fiduciary management services with approximately USD5.6 billion in assets, including USD3.7 billion on a discretionary basis, has changed its name to Aptitude Investment Management. “Since becoming an
Tradeweb Markets, a provider of fixed income, derivatives and ETF marketplaces, saw trading activity in European spread products/Eurobonds reach a record-breaking EUR73.8 billion in the first quarter of 2017. This beat Q1 2016 by 22.3 per cent and the previous
The appetite for cloud-based services in capital markets has reached a critical point and cloud is set to become the main delivery model for certain key functions in the near future, according to research from Celent. The research, entitled The
ONEaccess and ITG are teaming up to offer investor clients an integrated solution that simplifies compliance with MiFID II requirements around valuing and paying for research content. The integration between the ONEaccess and ITG solutions will enable asset managers to
