Commodity investment is back in the spotlight, says investment consultants, bfinance. The firm writes that after a decade of poor performance, many commentators delivered a more bullish outlook for commodities during the first quarter. Such predictions are buoyed by global
Options, a provider of global market data and colocation services for trading firms, has extended its high performance managed colocation solution to Equinix’s Zurich (ZH4) and Milan (ML2) International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres. Options’ clients colocated at the facilities
HSBC Global Asset Management has appointed John Ware as Senior Product Specialist for hedge funds in its Alternatives team. Ware will be responsible for HSBC Global Asset Management’s established hedge fund product offering and expanding the platform to a larger
By Beatrice Bedeschi – A month after the drone attacks on the Abqaiq and Khurais oil facilities, Saudi Arabia has surprised observers by being able to bring oil production capacity to nearly pre-attack levels, which has quickly stabilised oil prices
Intertrust, a provide of tech-enabled corporate and fund solutions to clients operating and investing in the international business environment, has expanded its services in the United States. Clients with US domiciled legal entities and affiliated transactions now benefit from Intertrust’s
Simmons & Simmons has advised Crake Asset Management on the launch of its new London management business and its global long-short equities hedge fund structure, one of the largest European launches of 2019. Richard Walker, CEO of Crake, says: “We
UK bookseller Waterstones has been acquired by funds managed by activist hedge fund manager Paul Singer’s (pictured), Elliott Advisors. Waterstones operates a chain of 283 bookshops located across the UK and Ireland, and in The Netherlands and Belgium, and had
Capitolis, a technology provider for the capital markets, is now live with its foreign exchange credit switching service, Capitolis Switch. Capitolis’ mission is to address capital markets constraints in the financial system. With the launch of Capitolis Switch, a key
Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has launched a new actively managed emerging markets short duration bond fund, The BlueBay Emerging Market Aggregate Short Duration Bond Fund. The UCITS fund, domiciled in Luxembourg, combines emerging market sovereign and
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, is now offering brokers and other asset managers a comprehensive solution for cost basis calculation and reporting in alliance with Scivantage. When assets like stocks are sold, resulting in a
