Roy Niederhoffer (pictured) graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a degree in Computational Neuroscience in 1987 and has seen a lot of quantitative hedge funds come and go since 1993, when he established RG Niederhoffer Capital Management Inc, a quantitative
Boutique asset manager Unigestion has launched Uni-Global – Alternative Risk Premia, an actively managed strategy to provide investors with cost-effective and liquid sources of returns modestly correlated to equity and bond returns. It complements Unigestion’s existing line of direct alternative
London-based specialist European equity asset manager Argonaut Capital plans to launch an income-focused European equity fund, subject to FCA approval. The Argonaut European Income Opportunities Fund will aim to achieve a yield far higher than the overall index, through selectively
GAM has appointed Matthew Beesley as head of equities. Beesley, former head of global equities at Henderson, will work with all of the GAM equity teams to optimise performance and risk management, ensure strong links with sales, marketing and operations
Enstar Group has appointed Jie Liu to its board of directors, effective 21 February 2017. Liu is a managing director of Hillhouse Capital Management and has been with the company since 2015. Prior to joining Hillhouse, he was head
INTL FCStone’s precious metals division has launched a physical gold trading platform, PMXecute+. PMXecute+ allows customers access to INTL's entire global inventory and network of supply partners, helping them find the best offers 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has completed a proof-of-concept to better manage the netting process for US Treasury and Agency repurchase agreement (repo) transactions leveraging distributed ledger technology (DLT). Working with Digital Asset, a developer of DLT solutions
Rayne Capital Management has added two senior partners to the company's executive and portfolio management team. Mitchell Molloy will join as managing partner and David Szybunka will become lead portfolio manager for Rayne Energy, each subject to the receipt of
Interdealer broker Tradition has delivered an initial margin optimisation in FX, after extending its partnership with LMRKTS, a compression and analytics provider. Tradition and LMRKTS announced a strategic partnership in 2016 to handle execution and compression processing for G10 FX
Object Trading, a provider of multi-asset trading infrastructure, now fully conforms to Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) latest trading platform, Titan. Upgrading to Nasdaq’s Genium INET platform enables SGX to offer enhancements and new features to participants including new connectivity protocols, extended
