Cowen, formerly Cowen Group, has launched a new brand identity Outperform, designed to better reflect the quality and breadth of services the firm offers clients and partners. “Financial services and actively managed investment products need to be differentiated and
Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Hedgeweek end of year editorial report: Reflections on 2015. We are excited to bring to you, our readers, what we hope will be the first of many such annual reports. In this first
The latest Hedge Fund Tracker analysis from S&P Global Market Intelligence shows the top funds managed approximately USD150 billion in equity holdings, up from the USD141 billion under management in the first quarter. These funds also decreased the number of
Algomi, a network company providing information-matching solutions for the optimisation of fixed income liquidity, is to acquire and distribute the ALFA product created and developed by AllianceBernstein (AB). ALFA (Automated Liquidity Filtering & Analytics) was developed as an in-house liquidity
Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) has launched the CBOE-SMA Large Cap Index (SMLC Index), the first of a series of sentiment-based strategy benchmark indexes that measure short-term market momentum based on Social Market Analytics’ (SMA) social media metrics. CBOE announced
BrokerTec, a NEX Group business which provides electronic trading technology and services for the fixed income market, and MTS, a fixed income electronic trading venue that is part of London Stock Exchange Group, are expanding the RepoFunds Rate (RFR) indices
Chiron Investment Management, a boutique, multi-asset investment management firm, has launched a new UCITS fund, the Chiron Global Opportunities Fund. The fund will employ a multi asset class strategy that will seek to preserve capital while generating a total
Alternative asset manager Mariner Investment Group has closed a USD503 million collateralised loan obligation (CLO), the third such transaction by Mariner's leveraged credit team. Mariner has now closed approximately USD1.5 billion in CLOs in the past two years.
Mourant Ozannes’ investment funds team has established the first five Jersey Private Funds (JPF) since the new regime came into effect last month. Introduced by the Jersey Financial Services Commission, the new JPF product has been designed to rationalise
The World Gold Council and the London Metal Exchange (LME), together with Goldman Sachs, ICBC Standard Bank, Morgan Stanley, Natixis, OSTC and Societe Generale, are to introduce a suite of exchange-traded and centrally-cleared precious metals products. The initiative has been
