John C Ertman, a long-time litigator for the investment management industry, has launched a new, conflict-free litigation firm, Ertman Dulis & Helisek. The firm has offices in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and is uniquely focused on investment management
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an asset freeze and other emergency relief against Florida-based investment adviser Kinetic Investment Group and its managing member, Michael Scott Williams, in connection with an alleged fraudulent, unregistered securities offering that raised
As part of its expansion in the Asian FX markets, XTX Markets’ Singapore entity (XTX) is building a new electronic foreign exchange (eFX) pricing and trading engine, which will go live in Equinix’s Singapore SG1 data centre in June 2018.
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index measured -0.42 per cent for February 2020.Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.70 per cent in March. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index showed an
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has unveiled plans to incorporate its Chorus hedge fund business into a new global alternative investment platform to be known as AXA IM Alts. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Asian hedge fund platform OP Investment Management Limited (OPIM), is partnering with Waterflow Capital to launch Waterflow Fund SPC, which is Cayman-domiciled and for professional investors only.Managed by Shui Jiang and Minghan Jiang, the Fund will deploy a thematic global macro strategy,
Boutique fund governance firm, Athena International Management Limited (Athena), has added an experienced professional independent director to its governance team. Sabrina Foster joins Athena with over 20 years’ experience in the alternative Investment funds industry, previously serving as an independent director
Thomson Reuters has added sell-side research from Deutsche Bank, Kepler Cheuvreux and European Securities Network’s (ESN) to the Investment Research Marketplace (IRM) solution on its financial desktop platform Eikon. Thomson Reuters IRM was launched on Eikon in March 2018 to
The latest monthly hedge fund brief from Lyxor highlights that hedge fund performance since the end of March has been flat, according to several benchmarks. The industry has deleveraged during the market turbulence in February and March and has thus
TransFICC, a specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for fixed income and derivatives markets, and SoftSolutions, a developer of high-performance mission-critical platforms, are partnering to provide clients with connectivity and workflow solutions for Interest Rate Swaps.Using TransFICC’s ‘One
