Aurum Fund Management has launched the Aurum Dynamic Strategies Fund, a multi-manager, multi-strategy, alternative UCITS fund. Kevin Gundle, CEO of Aurum Research Limited, Aurum’s UK subsidiary, says: “Aurum’s proximity to the hedge fund industry gives it a unique vantage point
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) plans to start overnight dissemination of the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX Index) on 15 April. Values for the VIX Index are expected to be published every 15 seconds, beginning at 2:15 am CT, during
Atalaya Capital Management, a private credit asset manager, has closed its sixth Special Opportunities Fund (Fund VI) at its USD800 million hard cap, exceeding its USD750 million target. Fund VI is the fourth consecutive oversubscribed Atalaya Special Opportunities Fund, representing
The European Energy Exchange (EEX), part of Deutsche Börse Group, is to acquire the remaining shares in the Singapore-based Cleartrade Exchange (CLTX) from Freight Investor Holdings. The transaction will take effect as of 15 April 2016. With this transaction, EEX
James Klempster (pictured), head of portfolio management at Momentum Global Investment Management asks, has quantitative easing become a victim of its own success? While it had been used before, Quantitative Easing (QE) really only came into our collective consciousness when
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for March 2016 measured 0.90 per cent, while hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index declined 0.95 per cent in April. “Reflecting typical seasonal
One of the biggest drivers of change in the alternative funds market in recent years has been large institutions investing directly into large blue chip managers, concentrating 80 per cent of the industry's total AUM in the upper decile of
IPC Systems has partnered with Algomi, a network company providing information-matching solutions for the optimisation of fixed income liquidity, to deliver DealCall, an application which will run over IPC's Financial Markets Cloud. DealCall will be integrated into both Algomi's award-winning
CME Group has cleared its first interest rate swaptions trade and in doing so become the forst clearing house to offer swaptions clearing. Five clearing members are approved to clear swaptions, including Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi and RBS plc. Several
Wilshire Associates Incorporated has launched Wilshire Omnia, a single platform, fully integrated solution that delivers comprehensive portfolio risk analysis, attribution and performance measurement across markets and asset classes. Incorporating state-of-the-art, multi-asset class analytics, and an intuitive user experience, Wilshire Omnia
