Outsourcing has not only become an accepted practice among hedge fund managers, it has become a necessity as funds large and small seek out ways to control their costs, manage their internal resources more effectively, and overcome the ever growing
Traditionally, hedge funds and private equity firms have allocated significant capital budgets to build out their own sophisticated Communication (Comm.) Rooms, which can take months to provision and bring online. With servers to buy and install, software to license and
EFG Hermes and Saxo Bank have formed a partnership which will enable full integration of Saxo Bank’s SaxoTraderGO platform with EFG Hermes’ new online trading platform, EFG Hermes One. The new platform will grant clients one-click access to financial instruments
Invast Global, a Sydney-based prime services provider, has been named Best Specialist Prime Broker at the 2017 HedgeWeek Global Awards. With a unique peer-review voting structure, the Hedgeweek Global Awards have grown to become one of the most prestigious and
XM Group (Trading Point Group), an FX and CFD broker, has launched the MT5 platform with offerings of over 300 CFDs on single stocks. The launch follows a series of testing phases which have made sure the additional platform is
Money market funds with a shorter settlement period of T+1 are now tradable via Deutsche Börse’s Xetra. These products are the first class of securities for which transactions are settled on the trading day following order execution. All other
Broadridge Financial Solutions has extended its global post-trade control capabilities for sell-side and buy-side firms in capital markets through the acquisition of Message Automation, a provider of post-trade control solutions. "Broadridge is a global leader in driving technology innovation and
After a tough start to 2017, macro UCITS strategies began to recover during the summer months. In line with the broader hedge fund market, performance in this category was led by CTA/Managed Futures funds progressing 1.06 per cent during the
Man AHL, Man Group’s diversified quantitative investment manager, has launched the second annual Man AHL Coder Prize, a coding competition for students with a top prize of GBP5,000. The Man AHL Coder Prize, which launched last year for students in
Risk technology specialist Numerix has acquired TFG Financial Systems, a real-time risk, P&L and position management system. TFG’s dependency graph capabilities, at the heart of its SaaS risk and portfolio management software and technology framework, will be leveraged to provide
