Newedge has made two senior appointments to in its New York office. John Fay (pictured) has been named Global Head of the firm’s FICC Business Line (Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities), and Bill Sexton has joined as head of the
Morgan Stanley has launched a new fund, the MS Tremblant Long/Short Equity UCITS Fund under its FundLogic Alternatives Plc umbrella. The fund provides exposure to Tremblant’s Long/Short Equity Strategy (the Strategy), which employs a fundamental and research driven approach. The
Knight Capital Group has launched Knight Link in Europe, a trading model for European equities which provides institutional and retail broker-dealers with access to Knight’s liquidity. “We are very excited to be launching Knight Link in Europe,” says Kee-Meng Tan
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services is the exclusive licensor of real-time market data for spot, derivatives and spread products traded on PEGAS, as of 1 January 2015. PEGAS is the central natural gas trading platform of EEX Group, operated
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores is migrate its current real-time, proprietary market surveillance system to Nasdaq’s SMARTS platform. SMARTS has international standards built into all of its monitoring processes, allowing for seamless consolidation of supervisory duties and making these duties more
A Swedish institutional client has become the first investor to use Signet Group’s latest innovation: a share class denominated in a basket of Asian currencies. The multi-million dollar investment came from a client that has been invested in Signet funds-of-funds
OppenheimerFunds announced today that Eric Meltzer is to join OppenheimerFunds firm as Chief Technology Officer, effective 17 February. In this role, Meltzer will be responsible for advancing the firm's technology, infrastructure and data initiatives. Meltzer will be based in New
Four out of seven of IndexIQ’s IQ Hedge family of investable hedge fund replication and alternative beta indexes recorded positive performance in January. The IQ Hedge Fixed Income Arbitrage Beta Index led the way with a return of 1.28% followed
The use of social media has increased significantly within the hedge fund industry over the past couple of years, according to a paper from Agecroft Partners. Social media is broadly used by investors as part of their due diligence process
The Securities and Exchange Commission has obtained an emergency asset freeze and court order to halt an ongoing securities fraud being orchestrated by Robert C Butler of Bermuda Dunes, Calif. The SEC alleges that from January 2009 to March 2011,
