Specialist investment company Liontrust is to acquire Neptune Investment Management Limited, subject to regulatory approval in a deal that will take Liontrust’s AuM to GBP17 billion. All of the Neptune Investment Team, headed by and including Robin Geffen, will join
ResearchPool, the leading global digital platform for investment research, has signed a new partnership with Invest Securities to offer investment companies a MiFID II-compliant solution to access reports and analysts. Invest Securities will also exclusively distribute its research on ResearchPool.com
GMEX Technologies Ltd (GMEX) has partnered with Colt Technology Services to deliver the GMEX Exchange-in-a-Box over the Colt PrizmNet financial extranet. GMEX Exchange-in-a-Box is a multi-asset, multi-language hybrid voice and electronic trading platform providing both execution and surveillance capability for
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.40 per cent in December, trailing the 0.73 per cent return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. For the
Hedge fund managers ended June 2019 up 1.75 per cent on an equal-weighted basis, and 1.89 per cent on an asset-weighted basis, reversing May’s losses of 1.19 per cent, according to figures released by Eurekhedge. Trade optimism and expectations of
Style Research, a specialist in factor-based analysis, has appointed experienced fintech leader Sebastien Roussotte (pictured), as Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Roussotte succeeds Kirsten English, who was appointed as CEO by lead investor Lyceum Capital Partners in 2015. After successfully implementing a programme of significant investment, during which the global team has
IPC, a provider of secure, compliant communications and networking solutions for the financial markets community, is to introduce Unigy 360, its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, to the Asia Pacific (APAC) market later this year. IPC has been at the forefront of
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched DTCC Exception Manager, the latest addition to its Institutional Trade Processing product suite. DTCC Exception Manager enables market participants to publish, manage and communicate exceptions throughout the trade lifecycle, and supports
Stephen Moore, the lead manager of the Artemis US Extended Alpha and US Absolute Return funds, which between them in their OEIC and SICAV forms represent some USD3.4 billion (GBP2.7 billion, EUR3 billion) in AUM, has decided for personal reasons
Societe Generale Prime Services has announced the result of the annual review of constituents for its range of CTA indices and for the first time since inception in 2000, there have been no changes to the flagship SG CTA Index
