By Don Steinbrugge (pictured), Agecroft Partners – Hedge fund managers focused on structured credit strategies can be simplistically divided into two categories: beta managers or alpha generators. Many investors believe the beta opportunity born out of the financial crisis has substantially run
The August 2017 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR6,045 million, up 24.8 per cent compared to August 2016 and down 18.9 per cent from the previous month. The average daily transaction value on
Linedata has appointed Sophie Février (pictured), as the firm’s new Director of Innovation, Communications and Marketing. Reporting directly to Anvaraly Jiva, founder and CEO of Linedata, Février will manage innovation initiatives and define and implement communication, marketing and digital activities
Alternative asset manager Magnetar Capital (Magnetar) has appointed Erik Falk to work on strategic initiatives with the firm’s executive committee, including founder & CEO Alec Litowitz, co-founder & President Ross Laser, and Global Head of Fixed Income David Snyderman. Falk,
SIX has reported strong results for the first six months of 2017 with an operating income of CHF 929.7 million for the period. Adjusted for special effects in the first half of 2016 (CHF29.9 million), operating income is up by
JCRA Group, a provider of hedging, financial risk and debt consultancy services, including interest rate and foreign exchange advice, has secured the backing of private investor clients of Connection Capital, the specialist private client investment business, for its GBP13.6million management
Bloomberg Data Reporting Services Limited (BDRSL) has secured authorisation, effective 3 January 2018, from the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for its Approved Publication Arrangement (APA). Under MiFID II, investment firms trading OTC, including systematic internalisers, are required to make
Charles River Development has formalised a partnership agreement with TRADEcho to automate Trade reporting under the European Union’s Markets in Financial Directive II (MiFID II), which goes into effect in January of 2018. Under the partnership, firms with the
The Rohatyn Group (TRG), a specialised asset management firm focused on emerging markets, has hired former Caravel Flagship Fund portfolio manager Beidi Gu, who will be based in New York and lead TRG’s public equity investment strategies in beyond-BRIC emerging
The Phelix-DE product suite, which launched on the European Energy Exchange (EEX) in April this year, has been widely welcomed by the market, and is quickly establishing itself as the new benchmark product for German power. EEX says that increasing
