The Eurex KOSPI Product exceeded 500,000 traded contracts last Friday for the first time since its launch on 30 August 2010. Average daily volume has been increasing steadily, reaching more than 11,000 contracts in March 2011. On 18 January, Eurex
Maples Fund Services has extended its regulatory reporting service to incorporate Annex IV reporting for AIFMD. The new offering will provide an interactive solution for clients to streamline their regulatory reporting workflow from the capture of data and key assumptions
Offshore Business Solutions has appointed Dawn Cummings as Managing Director. As well as serving as an independent director on the boards of various investment management companies, Cummings also oversees a team of professionals in the provision of custom-tailored solutions
Man Group Plc this week launched the Man Commodities Fund, offering institutional investors exposure to global commodity markets in a UC
Global institutional trading network Liquidnet is planning to enter the fixed income market with its acquisition of bond trading platform Vega-Chi. The partnership, subject to regulatory approval, will combine Liquidnet’s experience, scale and global reach within the institutional investment community
London-based Threadneedle has launched a new absolute return fund whose mandate will be to focus on European small caps. The Lux-domiciled UCITS III-compliant Threadneedle European Smaller Companies Absolute Alpha fund has been borne out of investor demand according to the
Given January’s near-zero performance, February turned in a slightly better set of returns for newcits strategies with the UCITS Alternative Index Global gainin
Morningstar Europe, an independent industry-leading provider of fund research, announced this week the launch of a new se
Ignis Asset Management has confirmed this week that it plans to launch a government bond fund at the end of March.
Oslo Børs has upgraded Oslo Connect, its OTC derivatives MTF trading and price discovery system, to the latest version of Edge, which is provided by Baymarkets. Edge is the trading and registration platform used by exchanges, brokerage firms and banks
