The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an order against RP Martin Holdings Limited, and its subsidiary Martin Brokers (UK) Limited, filing and settling charges of manipulation and attempted manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) for
Hedge funds continue to climb higher, with the Lyxor HFI up 3.5% ytd (up to 24 March). The asset class was supported this week by L/S Equity, and in particular Asian managers that have done particularly well. Their successful stock-picking captured the buoyant market environment
Man GLG, the discretionary investment management business of Man Group has launched a new UCITS compliant fund, Man GLG European Mid-Cap Equity Alternative fund. The Fund will be domiciled in Ireland and managed by GLG Partners LP. The portfolio manager
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of alternative asset management solutions, has made IVP Treasury 3.5 available on the cloud, allowing hedge fund managers to track, control and optimise their financing needs across counterparties including Prime Brokers and Custodian banks. “Hedge funds are
Although the MSCI World index declined 1.8 per cent in March, the real story was about equity dispersion, currencies and central bank policy, according to Anthony Lawler, portfolio manager at GAM. In equities, dispersion of returns by geography continued in
Wavelength Capital Management, a provider of liquid alternative investments and portfolio solutions, has appointed Mark Landis as Co-Managing Partner, effective immediately. Landis joins Wavelength from Societe Generale where he was most recently Head of Fixed Income and Currencies for the
TABB Group has promoted Paul Rowady to principal, head of research for the capital markets research and consulting firm’s new Research Alliance Data & Analytics (DnA) IT practice. Rowady has over 24 years of proprietary trading and capital markets experience
BNP Paribas is the latest member on the TOM (The Order Machine) MTF derivatives market. TOM MTF currently has a stable market share in the Netherlands of around 30 per cent, a figure the firm expects to grow to 40
The capacity conundrum continues to be one of debate and it has become increasingly apparent that it is not solved simply by the provision of an arbitrary headline number or cap. Geoff Ruddick (pictured) takes a look at the key things
Risk management solution provider Portfolio Science has extended the reach of its RiskAPI distributed risk engine through an agreement to integrate the product into FixQ, an enterprise investment management system from specialist software provider PortfolioShop. RiskAPI uses an application programming
