Tourmaline Partners, an outsourced trading solutions firm, has made two senior hires in Australia, with Matt McShane joining as Director of Operations for Asia, and Simon Twiss as Director of Pan-Asia Trading. Since opening its Asia-Pacific office in Sydney in
Sciens Alternative Investments has launched the Sciens Managed Account Risk Technologies (SMART), an interactive risk analytics and portfolio construction engine that enables investors to evaluate their hedge fund portfolios and aggregated fund exposures on Sciens Managed Account Platform (MAP). John
The UN-backed Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) Initiative has issued a discussion paper on hedge funds to help its asset owner signatories better understand the risks associated with particular hedge fund strategies and instruments and the implications these may have
EEX Group significantly increased its sales revenue and annual net profit in 2018 achieving the best corporate result in its history so far. On the power market, EEX Group again recorded the biggest power trading volume worldwide. On the markets
The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a hedge fund manager in Baton Rouge with defrauding investors by hiding millions of dollars in losses suffered during the financial crisis from investments tied to residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). The SEC alleges
NYSE Liffe’s Robusta Coffee and Cocoa Futures contracts will be added to the Rogers International Commodity Index (RICI) for the first time. The changes will be implemented during the January roll period, at the end of January 2013. These new
Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC), the Australian independent academic centre for capital market research, has shown that there is no link between high-frequency trading (HFT) and market manipulation, based on a new report using mathematical models for market abuse.
Digital Assets Data, a financial technology and data company focused on the crypto-asset industry, has launched with the support of a USD6 million se round led by Distributed Global, Digital Currency Group, Morgan Creek, Galaxy Digital, Jump Capital, CMT Digital,
Reech AiM Group, an asset management group specialising in real estate and managed futures, has appointed Gary Sher as finance director and Adam Mincer as head of operations and technology. Both will be based in London and report directly to
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged a South Florida man with defrauding at least 14 investors by soliciting them to invest in a Ponzi scheme. A significant number of the victims were members of the gay community
