Last year the number of hedge fund launches globally fell by an estimated 40 per cent, but despite this there have been a number of positive developments for the funds industry in the BVI. One is the creation of an
Eze Castle Integration, a provider of strategic IT solutions and cloud services to the alternative investment industry, has been named Best Cloud Provider in the 2017 Hedgeweek Global Awards 2017. The annual reader’s choice award programme honours excellence among hedge
BroadRiver Asset Management has held the closing of BroadRiver II, with committed capital of USD366 million. The life settlement fund includes commitments from a broad range of institutional investors, including public and private pension plans, insurance companies and large family offices
Agecroft Partners has been named as Best Third Party Marketer Firm at the Hedgeweek Global Awards 2017 – the sixth time in seven years that the company has won the award. “We are honoured to have won this award and
STOXX, the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of tradable index concepts, has launched the STOXX Climate Impact and STOXX Climate Awareness Indices. This next generation of low carbon indices incorporates the CDP climate change
According to the data from Societe Generale Prime Services February was a strong month for managed futures strategies, with all three CTA indices (the CTA index, the CTA mutual fund index and the Trend index) producing performance in excess of
Invast Global, a Sydney-based prime services provider, has been named Best Specialist Prime Broker at the 2017 HedgeWeek Global Awards. With a unique peer-review voting structure, the Hedgeweek Global Awards have grown to become one of the most prestigious and
Broadridge Financial Solutions has extended its global post-trade control capabilities for sell-side and buy-side firms in capital markets through the acquisition of Message Automation, a provider of post-trade control solutions. "Broadridge is a global leader in driving technology innovation and
After a tough start to 2017, macro UCITS strategies began to recover during the summer months. In line with the broader hedge fund market, performance in this category was led by CTA/Managed Futures funds progressing 1.06 per cent during the
Risk technology specialist Numerix has acquired TFG Financial Systems, a real-time risk, P&L and position management system. TFG’s dependency graph capabilities, at the heart of its SaaS risk and portfolio management software and technology framework, will be leveraged to provide
