Hedge fund managers are growing more comfortable with moving data to the cloud in order to enhance operational value, but find data management their greatest challenge as well as their top spending priority for the year ahead. That’s according to a
A joint bid by the New Zealand Exchange (NZX) and the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has been selected to develop and operate the managed auction service for the New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) – one of the Government’s
London-based oil-focused hedge fund Westbeck Capital’s flagship energy strategy suffered its biggest loss this year in last month’s violent market sell-off, shedding 15.2 per cent as its long oil equity positions were sent into a tailspin. Though September’s loss was
Axioma has appointed Nico Kicillof to the newly created position of Managing Director, Head of Platform Engineering. He was previously Head of Software Development Lifecycle at Two Sigma, the technology-driven institutional investor, since 2015. “Streamlining flows of content into Axioma’s
DNCA, an affiliate of Natixis Global Asset Management, has appointed Pascal Gilbert and François Collet, two well-renowned international absolute return bond fund specialists. The appointments of Gilbert and Collet round out DNCA’s Absolute Return teams, while extending its bond portfolio
Trend-following hedge fund strategies have launched a partial fightback in recent weeks, advancing into positive territory so far in October having suffered their worst month of the year during September’s market reversal.
Refinitiv has launched Country Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Scores as a data-metric in the transition to sustainable investing – providing comparisons at the country level for fund managers, advisors and investors.
Bison, a technology provider focused on developing innovative analytical solutions for the private markets, has integrated the Cobalt GP and Cobalt LP products with Ipreo’s iLEVEL platform. Launched in 2016, Cobalt is a software platform developed jointly by Bison and
There is no doubt that outsourcing, as a concept, has become accepted practice within the hedge fund industry. Not only does it help start-up and emerging managers drive efficiency gains, more importantly it is not viewed negatively by institutional investors.
SETL has teamed up with four asset management firms to launch IZNES, a pan-European fund record-keeping platform based on blockchain technology. The platform provides investors, asset management firms, distributors and wealth management advisers with easy and rapid access to fund
