Losses abounded in January, but the hedge fund industry largely shielded its investors from the worst. Hedge funds in aggregate were down 2.42 per cent on the month, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division
LPA, a capital markets technology and advisory firm, has enhanced its ESG reporting services through a partnership with Globalance, a specialist in the field of sustainability. The partnership will see LPA gain access to investment insight platform Globalance World.
Rimes, a provider of data management and investment intelligence solutions to investors and asset managers, has appointed Renaud Larzilliere as Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect. Larzilliere leads the sales engineering, implementation, client services and enterprise project management teams, and
Global alternative investment manager Wafra Inc has promoted Adel A Alderbas to Chief Investment Officer (CIO). Alderbas will work closely with Chief Executive Officer Fawaz Al-Mubaraki to oversee the firm’s investment activities and execute Wafra’s vision to deliver investment solutions
Technology provider Edgewater Markets has partnered with OpenFin, the operating system (OS) for enterprise productivity, to provide extended native desktop capabilities for FX traders. The full suite of products by Edgewater Markets is now available on OpenFin and is being
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched DTCC Treasury Kinetics, a new service that provides access to critical US treasury transaction data, increasing transparency into the repurchase agreement (repo) market. Leveraging data from the Government Securities Division of
BTIG has appointed Bradford Ainslie as a Managing Director within the firm’s Institutional Equities business. He will report to Richard J Blank Jr, Managing Director and Head of Global Equities at BTIG. Ainslie brings over 20 years of industry experience
The Global Billionaires Fund (‘GBF’) – which co-invests alongside 100 of the most successful business people on the planet – has seen interesting trends emerge following its annual portfolio rebalancing and the application of a new ESG risk filter in
Options Technology, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has achieved compliance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) ISAE3402, SOC1, SOC2 and SOC3 standards for the twelfth consecutive year. In 2011, Options became
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, has achieved System and Organisation Controls (SOC) 2 compliance. SOC 2 is a gold standard in the financial industry that assesses firms’ safeguarding of customer data. Defined by the American Institute
