Chicago Board Options Exchange is collaborating with LiquidityBook to expand connectivity to its CBOE PULSe trader workstation, an execution management system that allows traders to simultaneously and electronically access the markets via Direct Market Access (DMA), advanced routing and high-touch
Quantitative hedge fund manager Man AHL has released Arctic, its MongoDB-powered financial tick store, on code collaboration and management site GitHub as a freely available open source project. By building Arctic on MongoDB, Man AHL realised a 40x cost saving when
With Blackstone Group’s latest opportunistic offering, which closed in Q3, becoming the largest private real estate fund of all time, Preqin’s Lauren Mason takes a look at fundraising for the strategy and the pipeline of opportunistic funds in market. Although
What does the future hold in store for Guernsey? Guernsey Finance’s Kate Clouston (pictured) paints a bright picture for the island’s funds industry. Guernsey’s reputation as a leading funds domicile has been reinforced by findings in a recent report published by
Hedge fund manager Hatteras Funds is to repurchase itself from RCS Capital Corporation and re-establish itself as an employee-owned alternative investment boutique. Acquired by RCS Capital on 30 June, 2014, Hatteras Funds has continued to operate as an independent reporting
UMB Fund Services (UMBFS) has hired Michael Yanke as head of fund administration and Mackenzie Johnson as legal counsel in Milwaukee. Yanke is responsible for operations of UMBFS’ Milwaukee-based Fund Administration team, which services registered funds of all types. He
The hedge fund industry produced an aggregate return of 1.91 per cent in October, bringing YTD returns to near flat for 2015, but still negative at -0.80 per cent, according eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Performance report. The industry’s last annual
A month after being granted a licence to provide professional depositary services from its Luxembourg office, Elian has appointed Kerstin Lindgren (pictured) as manager of depositary services in the firm's funds depositary team. Lindgren’s main focus will be to develop
Options, a provider of cloud-based IT services to hedge funds, private equity houses, investment banks, trading firms and broker-dealers, is to offer TraderServe’s exchange emulated test environment, AlgoGuard as a managed solution. AlgoGuard is a solution for the testing of
Stifel Financial Corp is to acquire Eaton Partners, an independent, partner-owned hedge fund and private equity fund placement and advisory firm. Eaton's extensive relationships with private equity firms, hedge funds, high net worth family offices, and institutional investors is a
