The Boston Company Asset Management LLC. (TBC), a subsidiary of Bank of New York Mellon Investment Management, has selected Portware Enterprise to support its global equities and FX trading. Through an integration with Portware’s Alpha Vision, TBC can monitor real-time
Eurex Exchange, the international derivatives market of Deutsche Börse Group, is to launch a new equity index contract on 28 October 2015. The Mini DAX Futures will be offered in addition to the existing DAX Futures (FDAX) with a significantly
The Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry (ALFI) has published Frequently Asked Questions to provide general guidance to Luxembourg investment funds and their management companies wishing to apply for an RQFII Licence and an RQFII Quota. The publication of these
Finisterre Capital, an Emerging Market Macro and Credit specialist, is to launch Finisterre Emerging Market Debt Total Return Strategy with Damien Buchet (pictured), previously Global Head of Emerging Market Fixed Income at AXA Investment Managers, joining the firm as CIO
Multi-strategy hedge find manager Deimos Asset Management has appointed James A Warner III (pictured) as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager. At Deimos, Warner will focus on building and managing a portfolio of investments in companies in the financial services
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is to make an award of approximately USD290,000 to a whistleblower for providing valuable information about violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA). Under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
By James Williams – Preqin has released its latest Hedge Fund Spotlight report, looking at how hedge fund performance varies by size; a useful exercise and certainly one that can help institutional investors steer a course when deciding the type,
Interactive Data has launched a Liquidity Indicators Service, leveraging the same fixed-income evaluated pricing and reference data content that supports pricing and trading functions at buy-side and sell-side firms, to provide a series of security- and portfolio-level Liquidity Indicators. Concern
Lifeline Capital Management, a fixed income alternative asset manager which purchases and manages portfolios of life settlements, has appointed William Ketterer (pictured) as chief investment officer CIO. Ketterer, an expert in mortality and longevity risk and its impact on life
In December 2014, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handed down a landmark insider trading decision in United States v. Newman. This decision seemingly curbed the Government's ability to prosecute insider trading cases by increasing the Government's
