Silva Venture Group has launched the Analyst's Arena, a mock portfolio competition designed to recruit new hedge fund analysts. In the hedge fund world, fund analysts are responsible for producing critical analyses that fund managers use to make multi-million dollar
AlphaSense, provider of the AlphaSense search engine for financial professionals, has secured USD33 million in growth capital from Tribeca Venture Partners, Triangle Peak Partners, and Quantum Strategic Partners – a private investment vehicle managed by Soros Fund Management – as
Babson Capital Management, its subsidiaries Cornerstone Real Estate Advisers and Wood Creek Capital Management, and Baring Asset Management Limited, are planning to combine operations under the Barings brand. The combination will create a global, multi-asset investment management firm with over
Mill Hill Capital has chosen and implemented Fund-Studio as its front to back office portfolio management, investor reporting and shadow accounting platform. Objecutive, the provider of Fund-Studio, has implemented the platform with Mill Hill as a hosted solution leveraging the
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global representative body for alternative asset managers, has launched a set of Due Diligence Questionnaires (DDQs) for hedge fund directors. These are the first set of AIMA DDQs – questionnaire templates that fund
DST kasina, a provider of data-driven insights and distribution solutions to financial companies around the world, thasoday released its fourth quarter DST kasina Asset Manager Composite results. According to the report, operating margins for the 16 asset management firms that
CME Group is to begin clearing Interest Rate Swaptions on 11 April. "CME Clearing is proud to be the first clearing house to deliver interest rate swaption clearing, a capital efficient clearing solution that has the opportunity to transform the
Drawing on data compiled for the 2016 Preqin Global Hedge Fund Report, Preqin has created league tables of hedge funds that have most consistently delivered strong, stable performance. These league tables do not seek in any way to endorse these
Following the successful launch of its low carbon equity index family, Solactive AG in collaboration with South Pole Group has launched the new Solactive SPG Euro IG Low Carbon Bond Index. The index will cover investment grade corporate bonds denominated
La Française Global Investment Solutions (La Française GIS) has launched of a new multi-strategy long/short credit UCITS fund, LFIS Vision UCITS – Credit. The fund goes beyond a traditional long-short approach, seeking to deliver “through-the-cycle” performance by investing opportunistically in
