HazelTree, a provider of Treasury management services for alternative investment managers, has appointed Sandeep Rawal to the position of Chief Technology Officer, effective immediately. In his new position, Rawal will lead HazelTree’s efforts to use new technology to deliver high-performance,
New York-based SkyBridge Capital, which provides strategic capital to new and early-stage hedge funds, has invested in Capital Returns Master, a global long/short equity hedge fund special
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, kicked off the new year with one of its best spot monthly volumes by reaching 124.9 TWh in January. This strong showing was supported by monthly volume records on TTF with
Sturgeon Capital has launched the Sturgeon Central Asia Equities Fund, a Ucits hedge fund that will invest primarily in equity securities of companies listed on regulated markets but which have a substantial exposure to Central Asia and the supporting regional
Templum Markets, a registered Broker Dealer and Alternative Trading System (ATS), has appointed Bernard Van der Lande as Chief Issuance Officer (CIO). Templum Markets operates a regulated technology platform for the private issuance and secondary trading of digitalised securities. As
Japan’s Nikko Asset Management has chosen InfraHedge, a managed account platform and a subsidiary of State Street, for the launch of its Multi Manager Investment Trust, a regulated investment product that will invest in managed futures and global macro strategies.
Investment firms – hedge funds, sell-side research groups, traders, and asset managers generally – are increasingly relying on the web (via the process of web scraping) as a source of investment data, a trend that is set to increase rapidly
The Financial Services Agency has announced that as of 31 October Chi-X Japan, a wholly owned subsidiary of alternative trading venue operator Chi-X Global, will be designated as a proprietary trading system (PTS) on which transactions are exempt from the
Seattle-based fund of hedge funds manager Silver Creek Capital Management has announced that Gideon Nieuwoudt, former head of European and Asia research for Union Bancaire Privée Al
Asset Match, the UK’s first electronic platform for trading shares in private companies, has acquired Sharemark, the online stock market for smaller listed and non-listed companies, for an undisclosed sum. Sharemark is designed to provide a low cost, online secondary
