Specialist emerging markets hedge fund manager Charlemagne Capital has announced the launch this month of its first Middle East and North Africa fund, the Magna MENA Fund, which will inves
Trading in investment products and leverage products on the European financial markets fell in the second quarter of 2014. At EUR26.4 billion, the trading volume was down 21.0 per cent compared with the previous quarter. Exchange turnover was down
ConvergEx Group has launched a dynamic order routing strategy that allows clients to designate a percentage of an order to be sent to IEX, with the remainder going to ConvergEx’s Darkest algorithm. The algorithm searches for liquidity among more than
Yesterday saw another new rule announced by the Financial Services Authority but, in contrast to its earlier clampdown on short selling, this time the UK financial watchdog has done a full
PerTrac has announced an exclusive partnership with MondoAlternative, Italy’s largest provider of hedge fund data. The MondoAlternative database contains qualitative and quantitative records on over 2,200 hedge funds, including all the Italian "fondi speculativi", more than 1,200 European hedge funds,
Traiana’s Harmony network, the firm’s global product for equities swaps/CFD markets, is now live in the Asia Pacific region. The demand for the equity swap network in Asia is a reflection of the change in behaviour in this market, the
Netagio, the UK-based Bitcoin, gold and sterling exchange, has completed an independent review of its Bitcoin storage environment by BDO under ISAE 3000, the International Standard on Assurance Engagements. This is the first review of this kind in the Bitcoin
Institutional investors intend to remain active in hedge funds, with 88 per cent indicating that they plan to make additional allocations during the second half of this year, according to Credit Suisse’s mid-year Hedge Fund Investor Survey. This indicates
Asia Alternative Asset Partners (Caymans), an Asian alternative fund seeding and distribution business that has as a strategic investor CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets Group, an institutional re
Nomura Asset Management USA has announced the launch of Nomura Global Alpha, a New York-based venture focused on managing alpha-oriented fixed-income products and solutions for both instit
