Matrix Group, the privately owned UK financial services business, has appointed Paul Bramley as chief operating officer for its asset management division. Bramley has over 20 years’ experience in financial services, including chief financial officer and chief operating officer roles
International Solutions Network (ISN), a San Francisco-based consulting company with offices in London and New York City, has joined the Investment Association’s (IA) Velocity FinTech Accelerator as a Consulting Company Partner. ISN a capital markets and FinTech consulting company and
QMA, the quantitative equity and global multi-asset solutions manager of PGIM, has acquired Wadhwani Asset Management (WAM), a London-based quantitative macro-focused investment management firm. Upon closing, WAM, which runs quantitative macro hedge funds and risk premia strategies, will become part
CBOE Holdings has reported new single-day volume records for CBOE Volatility Index (VIX Index) options and the C2 Options Exchange (C2SM). Options on the VIX Index established an all-time, single-day volume record of an estimated 2,367,764 contracts traded, surpassing the
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has instituted public administrative and cease-and-desist proceedings against Thrasher Capital Management and its chief executive officer and managing member, James Perkins. The proceedings were instituted because (i) Thrasher, a SEC-registered investment adviser, failed to
A steady rise in transaction frequency characterised the last quarter of 2011, a year that Hedgebay believes could be seen as significant in the history of the secondary market. The recent volume has seen 2011 trading levels surpass those of
Gary Godel, a senior member of staff at the Jersey Financial Services Commission, has joined Comsure Compliance founder Mathew Beale as a senior consultant. Godel was a director of the JFSC and has worked within the commission since its inception
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Denver-based investment manager and his firm for conducting a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme through the sale of shares in inv
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for October 2018 measured -3.07 per cent. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.64 per cent in November. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital
BlueBay Asset Management has implemented Imagine Software’s cloud-based ASP solution for real-time P&L and risk management. BlueBay a manager of fixed income credit and alternative products, manages a combination of long-only and alternative debt strategies covering investment grade, high yield,
