Fidelity Investments has launched a new company, Fidelity Digital Asset Services, which will offer enterprise-quality custody and trade execution services for digital assets (cryptocurrencies) to sophisticated institutional investors such as hedge funds, family offices and market intermediaries. “Our goal is
According to one research report (published by marketresearch.com), high net worth individuals, at least In Europe, are classified as those with in excess of EUR 300,000 (US
Zurich-based Finvest Asset Management has received a mandate to allocate around USD300m to the fund of hedge funds sector as part of a low-risk strategy to capitalise on the turbulence in
EuroCCP has partnered with Swift’s central trade matching platform to provide prime and executing brokers central counterparty clearing services for their over-the-counter pan-European equity trades. The collaboration is one of the first to offer European prime and executing brokers the
Conifer Securities, a San Francisco-based provider of business and operations solutions to asset managers and institutional investors, has entered the prime brokerage business, in co-opera
Prior to the start of European Monetary Union (1999), German government bonds were the de facto benchmark for the European government bond market due to their liquidity and
MIAX Options is scheduled to launch volatility trading on the SPIKES Index (SPIKE) on 19 February. MIAX Options will list and trade cash-settled options on SPIKES, a measure of the expected 30-day volatility in the SPDR® S&P 500 ETF (SPY), the most actively-traded exchange traded fund in the world. “For the first time in its
ML Capital Asset Management says the first manager to launch on the Montlake Ucits platform will be Clareville Capital Partners, the firm founded by David Yarrow. The fund will commence trading on 1 October 2010. Yarrow and Angus Donaldson will
A number of academic studies by renowned international “think tanks” have proven the relative advantages of Eurex derivatives when looking for alternative investment opportu
Suggestions from Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti that Italy could push for the abolition of hedge funds has the industry baffled.
