Managed futures traders lost 0.17 per cent in May according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index is up 1.83 per cent year to date. “Global interest rates pushed higher and created losses for managers that were
McKay Brothers International has chosen Interxion’s Central London data centre campus to deploy the lowest known latency connections between the City of London & Slough and the City of London & Frankfurt. By colocating at the Interxion London Campus and
NN Investment Partners (NN IP, formerly ING Investment Management) has appointed Ivan Nikolov as a Senior Portfolio Manager in the firm’s Convertible Bonds team. Nikolov will be based in NN IP’s London office and and will report to Tarek Saber,
Contineo, a new industry-backed messaging network for equity-linked structured products whose on-boarding subscribers include Julius Baer, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan and Societe Generale, has begun live operations. Contineo facilitates transactions between buy- and sell sides. Managing
How ICAP’s EBS BrokerTec’s central limit order book for spot FX managed the SNB’s CHF de-peg… The decision by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) on 15 January 2015 to de-peg the Swiss franc from the euro sent the markets into
Prestige Fund Management has registered its direct lending funds for sale in Switzerland with OpenFunds Investment Services AG, an independent Swiss legal representative and distribution agent. Swiss law now requires that foreign funds intended for distribution in Switzerland appoint a
According to a survey released by Deutsche Bank in September 2014, ‘From Alternatives to Mainstream Part Two’, total assets managed by ’40 Act mutual funds reached a record high of USD257 billion by end-2013, representing over 60 per cent growth for
How investors are turning to non-traditional sectors for income streams – By Craig Reeves, Founder, Prestige Asset Management/Prestige Capital Management… Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of the economic factors that have been taken for granted in global investment
Australia has taken a decisive step towards its advancement as a global investment market, with the smooth passage of the Investment Manager Regime (IMR) legislation through the Australian Parliament. The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund industry
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has announced that two new direct participants have been approved by ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) to participate in the gold auction, which is used to determine the LBMA Gold Price. The new direct participants are Morgan Stanley
