AK Jensen Group (AKJ), an independent brokerage serving the institutional and hedge fund industries, has appointed Tom Mackay to the group’s board. Mackay joins the board having acted as the lead lawyer to the firm for many years. He
SimCorp, a provider of investment management solutions and services for the global financial services industry, has enhanced its partnership with FX Connect to provide SimCorp Dimension users with full foreign exchange netting capabilities. SimCorp leverages FX Connect’s cross-currency netting capabilities
RIMES, a provider of managed data services for the buy-side, has launched RegFocus, a buy-side monitoring and detection solution for the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR). RegFocus is designed to meet regulatory obligations under MAR and many other surveillance regulations, reducing buy-side
American Depositary Receipts are an effective way for US investors to gain exposure to international stocks. Dorsey, Wright & Associates’ John Lewis (pictured) explains how using a momentum strategy can prove effective in building the right exposure to this instrument
TFG Financial Systems, a provider of real time risk monitoring solutions to investment managers, secured five new mandates in the third quarter from a Tier 1 bank, a mini-prime broker and three hedge funds globally. TFG believes the demand for
Asset manager Pictet Asset Management has appointed Tim Holland as co-head of US sub-advisory within its US intermediaries group. "Over the past three years Pictet Asset Management has partnered with firms in the US to launch single strategy and multi-manager
Man Group has appointed Barry Schanker as head of US private wealth sales, based in New York. He will report to Eric Burl, head of Man Americas. Schanker joins Man Group from SkyBridge Capital, where he was head of
McKay Brothers, a specialist in low latency networks, has secured an investment from trading firm IMC. IMC will take a minority stake in McKay, providing capital for the improvement of McKay’s networks serving the latency sensitive trading community. Financial
Aristotle has launched the Aristotle Value Equity Fund, which will be managed by Aristotle Capital Management. The institutional no-load share class will trade under the symbol ARSQX. The objective of the fund is to maximise long-term capital appreciation with
Quattrex Sports has chosen European Fund Administration (EFA) for the administration and transfer agency of its alternative investment product Quattrex SCA, SICAV-FIS. The partnership aims to offer investors a choice of sub-funds investing in professional German and more generally European
