Last week, markets focused on welcoming encouraging October economic releases, factoring possible non-US central banks actions, digesting a more hawkish Fed and jumping into the rally.
Well over 150 Canadian hedge fund and financial services industry professionals and supporters gathered at The Storys Building in Toronto on October 29 for the 12th annual “Open Your Hearts to the Children” gala. The special fundraising evening organised by
Cordium has launched a new electronic communications review service designed to monitor the emails, instant messages and other office communications of broker dealers and registered investment advisers to meet various regulatory and compliance requirements. The review process, which will be
Conning is to acquire Octagon Credit Investors, a US–based manager of specialised credit asset classes with expertise in collateralised loan obligations (CLOs), bank loans and high yield bonds. Based in New York, Octagon has more than 20 years of experience
After a strong September, CTA strategies posted lower returns across the board in October 2015, with all managed futures indices calculated by Societe Generale Prime Services in negative territory. The Newedge CTA index was down 1.15 per cent in October
With some of the biggest names in private equity real estate raising ever larger funds, this extract from Preqin Real Estate Spotlight looks at how emerging managers are faring in the fundraising market and how investor appetite for new firms
smartTrade Technologies has added a margin credit functionality to its end-to-end low latency FX trading platform, LiquidityFX. smartTrade's LiquidityFX platform has seen increasing adoption by a large variety of clients looking to move from their incumbent platforms to a flexible non-volume
Investcorp has acquired the hedge fund of funds business unit of SSARIS Advisors, a manager of absolute return hedge fund strategies and hedge fund of funds strategies headquartered in Wilton, Connecticut. Four key members of SSARIS' hedge fund of funds
Average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR7,735 million in October (-5 per cent compared with October 2014), marking a return to a normalised volume environment. Activity in October 2014 was the highest level since
Systematic Hedge fund manager Cantab Capital Partners and The University of Cambridge are launching a new institute which is aiming to push the boundaries of information science. Established through philanthropic support of GBP5 million from Cambridge-based Cantab Capital Partners, the
