Wealth and alternative asset management group Peregrine Holdings has added André Tonkin to its capital introduction team. Tonkin joins Peregrine from Old Mutual Corporate where he was the market actuary responsible for creating customised investment solutions for the institutional
GAIN Capital Holdings, Inc (NYSE: GCAP), a provider of online trading services, today, has opened an office in Singapore to expand business development efforts in Asia for GAIN GTX, the company’s institutional electronic communications network (ECN). The GAIN GTX ECN
UCITS funds continue to be one of the most popular forms of foreign-domiciled funds in Asia Pacific according to an article written 30 May 2013 by Sanjay Jayant, Global Head of Product Solutions – Fund Services, HSBC Securities Services. Their popularity,
Hedge fund managers remain bearish on US equities, according to the TrimTabs/BarclayHedge Survey of Hedge Fund Managers for March. About 36% of the 77 hedge fund managers the firms surveyed in the past week are bearish on the S&P
NYSE Technologies, the commercial technology unit of NYSE Euronext, has launched a super-low latency market data platform specifically designed for the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s new Arrowhead trading platform. As the new equities trading system for the Tokyo market, Arrowhead has
Cordium, a compliance consultancy to the asset management industry and new name for HedgeOp Compliance and The IMS Group, has made two key appointments. Peter Guarino, vice president, will join Cordium’s Boston office, and Vivek Pingili, vice president, will
Trading in steel billet at the London Metal Exchange has rocketed in the first quarter of 2011, up 305 per cent compared with the corresponding period last year. In the first three months of this year, 69,426 lots were
EFAMA released a report on the evolving investment strategies of UCITS this week as the popularity in “newcits” – UCITS funds that employ hedge-like strategies to achieve ab
ICAP, a markets operator and provider of post trade risk mitigation and information services, has begun trading in Sterling (GBP) on i-Swap, its electronic interest rate derivative platform. This follows the launch of i-Swap in the US in Dollars
The Hedge Fund Association (HFA) has appointed Victor Hugo Rodriguez (pictured) – CEO of LatAm Alternatives – as the Director of the Latin American Regional Chapter. Marcia Rothschild, Head of BNP Paribas Securities Services Brazil, and Otavio Vieira, Managing
