
Liquidnet’s global institutional trading network has announced that its global buy-side community of more than 930 member firms can now trade Brazilian equities anonymously through its platform. The launch comes amid significant institutional interest in the Brazilian market, and

Variant Investments has launched the Variant Alternative Income Fund, a ’40 Act closed-end interval fund with a strategy designed to provide an alternative to public market exposure by focusing on niche assets with strong cash flows and low market correlations.

State Street Corporation has completed its acquisition of Charles River Systems, (Charles River Development), a deal that enables a global interoperable platform connecting the front, middle and back office with one provider. This platform, supported by deep enterprise data
Tod Bomberg is MAG Capital’s new Head of Structu

Following an improvement in August, CTAs reported slightly negative performance in September, according to figures released by Societe Generale Prime Services. The SG CTA Index was down 0.63 per cent, and the SG Trend Index was down 0.97 per cent.

Hedge funds were up last week, on the back of the positive performance of CTAs and L/S Equity Market Neutral strategies, while CTAs staged an impressive rally with most buckets contributing to performance, according to the latest Weekly Brief from
Fairfield Straits Lion Asset Management Limited is launching its second Asian hedge fund investment, the Fairfield Ludgate Hill Asian Arbitrage Fund. As with all FS

The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index ended September down 0.05 per cent, trailing behind the MSCI AC World Index (Local) which gained 0.07 per cent over the course of the month. North American hedge fund managers broke their winning streak