Laurent Favre, founder, AlternativeSoft AG, on defining what kind of risks and what kind of returns are needed in order to construct an optimal fund of funds. Firs
Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, has launched an aggregate bond service to help clients access fixed income trade data that is available as a result of MiFID II in a single, simple aggregated data feed.
Trading in futures on the large-cap Russell 1000 Index® and the small-cap Russell 2000 Index® has begun on Eurex US. In launching these products, Eurex US has furth
The Managed Funds Association (MFA) has written to both the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposing a ‘harmonized approach to the regulation of firms that are SEC-registered investment advisers (RIAs) and also CFTC-registered
Aizawa Securities Co Ltd, one of Japan’s leading securities houses, has bought a minority stake in offshore fund management firm ProfitFundCom AG. As part of the de
On average, Alternative UCITS funds suffered during October’s market correction with almost every strategy index showing a negative performance, according to LuxHedge’s latest market overview. The LuxHedge Global Alternative UCITS Index posted a loss of -1.67 per cent, bringing YTD
Julius Baer has opened its third single manager hedge fund, the Julius Baer Credit and Emerging Markets hedge fund (JB CrEM fund), to public subscription. The fund
The International Securities Lending Association says it is disappointed in Germany’s decision to ban the naked short selling of certain assets, including the prohibition of credit default swaps on government bonds. Isla’s chief executive Kevin McNulty says short selling is
Cooper Creek Partners (Cooper Creek) has launched its North America Long Short Equity UCITS Fund on ML Capital’s MontLake UCITS Platform. With day one assets in excess of USD110 million, it will be one of the largest Alternative UCITS Fund
Beauchamp’s portfolio management software system can now connect directly to Omgeo’s automated back-office trade processing solution. Omgeo provides several flexibl
