S3 Partners has launched its Blacklight Apps Crowding Kit (Black App) on the Bloomberg APP Portal at. The Black App uses S3 Blacklight financing rate data, which is already available on the Bloomberg Professional service, to deliver real-time analytics on
The board of directors of Alpine Select has taken the decision in principle to reduce in medium-term its exposure in hedge funds – held directly as well as indirectly via its majority holding in ALTIN – and to increasingly focus
IndexIQ has announced the performance of its family of six IQ Hedge Indexes with four positive, led by a 1.31 percent return for the IQ Merger Arbitrage Index. Two – the IQ Hedge Global Macro Index and the IQ Hedge
Financial institutions are facing a multitude of issues folowing the UK's vote to leave the EU, says law firm Eversheds, with passporting/mutual fund recognition likely to be a major concern for banks, investment managers and insuranace companies. According to Eversheds,
ITG has launched an enhanced version of its smart order router which, in early tests, has returned 35 per cent size improvement over the displayed quantity and USD0.0015 per share price improvement if routed to dark and lit venues. “This
Estera has bolstered its risk and compliance offering with the appointment of Risk and Compliance Director, Tui Iti who will be responsible for ensuring the company consistently adopts the highest global compliance standards across each of its international offices. The
InvestCloud, a cloud-based digital applet platform for financial services, has appointed Graham Collier as the firm’s new Head of Technical Operations for Europe. In this role, Collier will oversee the development and roll-out of InvestCloud’s technology for European clients, showcasing
Blackstone Strategic Capital Holdings Fund (BSCH), a vehicle managed by Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM), has acquired a passive, minority interest in Marathon Asset Management. Based in New York, Marathon is an opportunistic global credit event-driven manager with approximately USD12.75
The long-term impact of the historic decision by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union on 23 June will take investors and analysts time to fully quantify but there is no question that over the short-term, ‘Brexit’ is going
Thomson Reuters has enhanced its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) offering on Thomson Reuters Eikon with a new application that enables buy-side professionals to analyse real-time ESG data and incorporate it into socially responsible investment (SRI) decisions. Developed and supported
