On 22 September, the SEC hit RT Jones Capital Equities Management, a St Louis-based investment adviser with a USD75k penalty for failing to have sufficient cybersecurity policies and procedures in place. This led to the personally identifiable information of approximately
The number of research providers available on the RSRCHXchange platform, the online marketplace for institutional research, has doubled since its launch in late September, with 100 providers now on board. RSRCHX offers a rapidly growing number of buy side asset
The World Wide Web Foundation — the global advocacy organisation established by Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee — has appointed Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss as its next Chairperson. Beschloss will lead a diverse international board responsible for the strategic direction of
Equity brokerage Aviate Global is to donate hundreds of thousands of pounds of trading commissions earned on 24 November 2015, to War Child, a charity that helps children around the globe affected by armed conflict. The fundraising event, now in
Fund performance and industry dry powder is analysed in this extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Private Debt, Q3 2015. Fig 1 displays the median proportions of committed capital called up by the end of the first and second investment
Preqin’s Real Estate Online currently tracks 62 South Korea-based institutions that are actively investing in the real estate asset class, collectively representing USD2.5 trillion in total assets. A large proportion of South Korea-based real estate investors are insurance companies (31
The Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), Deutsche Börse Group and China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX) have officially founded a joint venture, the China Europe International Exchange. This new marketplace for the trading of RMB-denominated offshore products starting with cash market products
Alternative asset management firm TPG has named Jon Winkelried (pictured) as Co-Chief Executive Officer of TPG Holdings alongside TPG Co-Founder and current Chief Executive Officer Jim Coulter. David Bonderman, who co-founded TPG with Coulter, will continue in his role as
RWC Partners’ Priya Kodeeswaran (pictured) has hired Colin Moar to join his team as a senior analyst. Moar has over 17 years’ investment experience with research expertise across a number of sectors, with a particular focus on technology. He
Options, a managed service and IT infrastructure provider to the global capital markets industry, has has expanded its operations in New York, relocating its Midtown office to a new, larger space on Third Avenue. The move, necessary to accommodate the
