Newedge Group, with its membership in LCH.Clearnet, has become a general clearing member for Nodal Exchange, the first exchange dedicated to offering locational (nodal) futures contracts and related services to participants in the North American electric power markets. Nodal Exchange
Hong Kong-based hedge fund LIM Advisors has appointed Donald Ewer as head of Asian fixed income and credit. Ewer’s wealth of experience in Asian fixed income and credit investing and other asset classes will enhance LIM’s ability to take advantage
Fidessa group, a provider of trading, portfolio analysis, compliance, market data and connectivity solutions for the buy-side and sell-side, is now ready with Koscom’s PowerBase NFS, the new high-speed interface to the Korean exchange. The Fidessa NFS gateway provides high-speed
TMF Group has appointed Michael Adams as global Head of Structured Finance. Adams has worked for TMF Group for three years and was most recently Regional Managing Director for the UK, Ireland and the Channel Islands. Prior to TMF Group,
ERI Scientific Beta has launched two new families of smart "quality-type" factor indices – High Profitability and Low Investment, allowing investors to benefit from well-documented additional risk premia. These new smart factor indices have been available on the www.scientificbeta.com platform
Jane Buchan, the founder of Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company (PAAMCO), and Chris Gradel, a founder of PAG in Asia, have joined the board of the Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB). The two appointments strengthen international representation on the HFSB
Representatives from PwC, Coller Capital, Dexion Capital, Baring Vostok, Hermes GPE and Metric Capital have been added to the roster of speakers for the Guernsey Funds Forum 2015. It has already been announced that Guy Hands, Chairman and Chief Investment
This extract from Preqin’s Quarterly Update: Private Equity, Q1 2015 focuses on global private equity-backed buyout deals, featuring the latest available data. The number of private equity-backed buyout deals recorded globally in Q1 2015 fell by 20 per cent from
Hedge funds posted gains in March, with performance driven by strong macro trends in Currency and Commodity markets, complemented by broad-based gains and positioning in Event Driven, Equity Hedge and fixed income-based Relative Value Arbitrage strategies. The HFRI Fund Weighted
Tora, a provider of trading technology and financial services, and ConvergEx, a provider of investment and execution technology solutions, have agreed to integrate Tora’s Asia-focused trading platform, Tora Compass, with ConvergEx’s order management system, the Eze OMS. Under the agreement,
