Harcourt, the Alternative Investment brand of Vontobel Asset Management, has launched a SICAV-SIF compliant version of its flagship fund of hedge funds strategy, previously only available in a mandate format. The Harcourt Alternative Leaders Fund, which is only available to
Principia Partners, a solutions provider for derivative and structured finance operations, has launched pasVal, an online portfolio valuation, risk, and accounting management service. The pasVal service is a web-based interface that leverages Principia’s 20+ years of derivatives expertise. Its market-proven
ICAP’s Global Broking business and ICAP Information Services (IIS), the information and data division of ICAP, have together launched the ICAP Euro Interest Rate Swap (IRS) Index. The ICAP Euro IRS Index is intended to track the return of a
Boerse Stuttgart, Germany's leading exchange for retail investors, has gone live on Genium INET. The system named Xitaro will be used for trading of all asset classes including equities, fixed income, exchange traded products and securitised derivatives. In addition to
Eurex Clearing is to launch its new Eurex Clearing Prisma Margin Estimator (Eurex Clearing PME), which has been developed in collaboration with OpenGamma, on 16 November 2015. This new service will further enhance the risk management offering for its members
Context Asset Management has launched the Context Macro Opportunities Fund, which seeks to deliver long-term, risk-adjusted returns with low correlations to the financial markets and is part of Context’s drive to ‘democratise’ hedge fund strategies by offering them in alternative
Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services is launching the new information product ‘Intraday Volatility Forecast’ on 23 November. The new analytic delivers ten-second, one-minute and ten-minute volatility forecasts for the futures of DAX, EURO STOXX 50 and Euro-Bund. “Our forecasts
Lazard Asset Management (LAM) has launched the Lazard European Alternative Fund, which is UCITS compliant, utilises bottom up stock selection and is a liquid portfolio of approximately 60 long and short positions in European large- and mid-cap companies. The Fund
Wells Fargo’s Global Fund Services has launched Fund View, an operational system for managing and analysing the middle- and back-office operations, fund accounting, and regulatory and investor servicing functions of hedge funds and private equity funds. "Fund View provides managers
Eurex Exchange, the international derivatives market of Deutsche Börse Group, is to launch a new equity index contract on 28 October 2015. The Mini DAX Futures will be offered in addition to the existing DAX Futures (FDAX) with a significantly
