ETF Securities is using its established infrastructure to build out its smart beta product offering as investors increasingly turn to lower cost alternatives to active strategies. Having grown into one of Europe's leading ETF providers over recent years, ETF Securities
According to a new report by ETFGI, smart beta equity ETFs/ETPs listed globally, gathered USD53.7billion in the first 10 months of 2015. There were 764 smart beta equity ETFs/ETPs, with 1,336 listings and assets of USD399billion from 106 providers listed
International law firm Simmons & Simmons has launched a new online tax subscription service designed to help clients in the asset management & investment funds and financial institutions sectors when structuring and marketing funds. The service, ‘Simmons & Simmons navigator:
The Brasidas Capital Management team of Jon Withaar and Steve Deitch have joined multi-strategy hedge fund manager Deimos Asset Management as Managing Directors and Portfolio Managers. At Deimos, Withaar and Deitch will continue to build and manage portfolios based on
Cordium, a provider of compliance consulting and software solutions to the financial services industry, has launched a new social media review service. As technology advances and social media becomes a more prevalent form of communication, usage by regulated entities such
100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF) held its annual gala in Italy on 18 November at Milan’s Palazzo Visconti to raise money to support project Edu Care, a project developed by Fondazione Zanetti Onlus (FZO) and SOS Villaggi dei Bambini
BlueCrest Capital Management, once Europe’s third biggest hedge fund firm, is to stop managing money for outside clients after a sharp drop in assets and weak returns from its flagship macro fund. The firm’s flagship USD2.5 billion hedge fund, BlueCrest
Deutsche Börse Group has enhanced its securities lending services by linking a new agency lending service by Clearstream with Eurex Repo and Eurex Clearing. The new offering combines several elements of the broad Deutsche Börse value chain. The joint new
Trax, a provider of capital market data, trade matching and regulatory reporting services, has launched the Insight Demonstrator, a validation engine allowing institutional firms to test their reporting activity against MiFID II transaction reporting obligations. The Insight Demonstrator capitalises on
Global hedge fund advisory and administration firm Maitland has made four appointments to its global business development and client management team. The hires will be deployed in Europe, North America, and Latin America respectively, in order to spearhead growth in
