Northern Trust has enhanced its Hedge Fund Monitor product with a series of new features designed to improve automation and straight-through processing, enabling Northern Trust’s Funds of Hedge Funds (FoHF) clients across the globe to access performance, liquidity and compliance
Scott J. Nance, an institutional investment executive with more than 20 years’ industry experience, has joined Compass Securities as an independent affiliate through his practice, West-NW Capital. Prior to joining Compass as a registered representative, Nance was a managing director
PerTrac Financial Solutions has launched a Microsoft Excel add-in that allows users to interact with major PerTrac applications from within Excel. PerTrac PowerLink opens new reporting and analysis possibilities for PerTrac clients, while allowing them to easily incorporate PerTrac applications
Schroders has appointed Bob Jolly to a new role on its fixed income team as Head of Global Macro based in London. Jolly, who joins in September, will also take on lead portfolio management responsibility for a number of macro and
The Hedge Fund Association has elected its 2010/2011 board of directors, president and vice president, and appointed regional directors and advisory board chairs. HFA is focused on business and professional development, Capitol Hill lobbying to advocate for managers and investors,
Interest rate swaps platform Trad-X has hit record trading volumes for US dollar interest rate swaps. In May, Trad-X executed 680 trades equating to a notional of USD37 billion. These electronically executed trades accounted for almost 24 per cent
Galaxy has received regulatory approval from the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) and the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel (ACP) to operate its Organised Multilateral Trading Facility for European bonds. The bond trading platform accepts only firm orders and aggregates them
Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking has appointed Todd Martin as equity strategist covering the Asia Pacific region, based in Hong Kong. In this newly created role, Martin will generate micro and macro themes that will formulate specific cash equity
Oddo Asset Management is stepping up its development and launching a dedicated M&A alternative management activity. This absolute performance strategy mainly consists of investing in companies which are takeover targets, taking advantage of the difference between the share price and
Merlin, a prime brokerage services and technology provider offering integrated solutions to the alternative investment industry, has hired Brian VS McKenna as a partner in the Merlin Institutional Group (MIG). In this role, McKenna will enhance MIG’s institutional sales efforts
