The US Patent Office has awarded Green Key Technologies a patent for the design of its OTC liquidity allocation process called Decline Ratio Matching. Within Green Key’s Block Pool, a quote management platform used by OTC derivative participants, brokers are
Neuberger Berman, a private, independent, employee-owned investment manager, has boosted its European fixed income capabilities with the addition of six investment professionals in Paris – five portfolio managers and one quantitative analyst, who all join from BNP Paribas Asset Management.
AIMA, the global hedge fund association, has appointed a new chair and deputy chair of the AIMA Investor Steering Committee (ISC), which features leading institutional investors in hedge funds. The new chair is Michelle McGregor-Smith, chief executive of British Airways
Cambridge Place Investment Management has recruited Stephen White as chief investment officer for Europe from Morgan Stanley, where he was a managing director in the securitised products g
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a London-based hedge fund adviser GLG Partners and its former US-based holding company with internal controls failures. The failures led to the overvaluation of a fund’s assets and inflated fee revenue
Hedge funds posted gains in August as US equities and the dollar expanded their respective divergence with non-US assets, Emerging Markets currencies extended losses, and the US technology sector extended record gains. The HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index (FWC) gained
By Philippe Matélic, Director, Regulatory Compliance Team, Kinetic Partners (Luxembourg) Management Company – How to connect your ideas to the market: The fund industry is constantly generating new ideas. But, as in other industries, each needs to move through from
LCJ Investments is to offer its discretionary-driven FX strategy on Hydra, Ketera Strategies’ managed account marketplace for macro, commodities and liquid equity hedge fund strategies. LCJ’s Macro Strategy is a discretionary, fundamentals-based, global macro program that expresses its views through
European open architecture funds platform Allfunds Bank, has appointed Sebastián OchagavÃa as the new Country Head of Chile, with additional responsibility for the company’s business in Uruguay and Argentina. OchagavÃa (pictured), will be responsible for heading up the Allfunds sales efforts
Chicago-based alternative asset manager Citadel Investment Group has announced three senior hires that the firm says will expand its capabilities in the fixed-income business in Europe.
