Ledgex Systems has launched a stand-alone Client Relationship Management (CRM) solution tailored specifically for hedge funds, endowments and foundations, fund of funds, pensions and family office organisations. Ledgex CRM is ideal for managing and tracking investor communications, sales opportunities, client
One Oak Capital Management has launched a new hedge fund, the Alpha Opportunities Fund, which employs a highly disciplined relative value long-short credit strategy and seeks to exploit short-term trading opportunities in the investment grade corporate bond market. Steve
LMAX Exchange has launched LMAX Prime, a prime of prime service to provide retail brokers, hedge funds and asset managers with credit intermediation and bespoke liquidity arrangements with access to multiple venues. LMAX Exchange will leverage its prime broker relationships,
BATS Global Markets (BATS) has completed its acquisition of Hotspot FX, an institutional foreign exchange (FX) market, from KCG Holdings. The transaction was announced January 28th and received Hart-Scott-Rodino clearance from the US Department of Justice on 18 February. Hotspot
ALTIN AG’s share buyback through a put options programme launched on 27 February has been very successful with 3,741,610 put options out of the 3,823,867 (97.85%) having been exercised. This corresponds to the repurchase of 374’161 shares, or 9.78% of
Montreux Capital Management has boosted the team behind its Commodity Trading Fund with the addition of experienced geologist and small cap mining entrepreneur Dr Steven Newbery. Newbery, who is joining as an advisor to the fund, has more than 25
LMAX Exchange, an FCA regulated MTF for global FX trading, has become a member of the Linux Foundation, the non-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux. LMAX Exchange will be a part of the Linux Foundation’s new Core
The SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for February 2015 measured 2.19%. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index meanwhile, advanced 0.66% in March. “March data showed a modest gain in the SS&C GlobeOp Capital
Nasdaq has established a new energy futures market, Nasdaq Futures (NFX), with the support of leading commodities participants. NFX will offer competitive pricing, an innovative clearing solution and high-performance technology for futures and options based on key energy benchmarks including
In its latest survey on the growing market for New UCITS (NUCITS), ML Capital has seen that the largest growth in investor demand this quarter, has been for Global Macro strategies, with 87 per cent of respondents planning to increase
