Global Alliance Wealth Management has launched a private debt component to compliment its existing Alternative Solutions Platform. With offices in New York, Hong Kong and soon to be Tokyo, the alternative investment management firm continues to present accredited investors and
SteelEye, the compliance technology and data analytics firm, has appointed Matt Smith (pictured), a highly-experienced regulatory tech specialist, as its new Chief Executive Officer. Smith’s appointment is aimed at helping drive the firm’s growth as it markets its secure and
Hedge fund firm BlueBay Asset Management has adopted Markit’s Know Your Third Party (KY3P) platform. KY3P is designed to allow organisations to simplify and standardise third party risk management processes with a focus on vendor due diligence and ongoing monitoring.
Mygale, the new vehicle for the European-focused event driven strategy that CIO Neil Tofts previously deployed at Deephaven Capital Management, KBC Alternatives, and Merrill Lynch, has launched the Mygale Event Driven UCITS Fund on the MontLake UCITS Platform. Toftsl has
Fixed-income electronic trading platform MarketAxess saw record global Emerging Market (EM) trading volumes of USD146 billion during 2015, a 30 per cent increase in trading volumes compared to the previous year. MarketAxess further expanded its group of global liquidity providers
Jefferies has joined hedge fund intelligence platform AltX’s growing list of investment bank clients. AltX helps firms who service, target and invest in the hedge fund industry find new clients and know their existing clients better. AltX integrates machine learning,
FINCAD, a provider of valuation and risk analytics for multi-asset, multi-currency portfolios, has added several key enhancements to F3, its object-oriented valuation and risk platform. These enhancements benefit buy-side firms searching for alpha in a low-yield environment and pursuing multi-asset,
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted cloud IT solutions for alternative asset funds, has enhanced its Abacus Client Portal, which gives asset managers greater control of and transparency into their AbacusFLEX cloud services. The enhancements include two new modules giving
Legg Mason has agreed to combine Permal, its existing hedge fund platform, with EnTrust Capital, an independent hedge fund investor and alternative asset manager headquartered in New York with approximately USD12 billion in total assets. The business combination will create a
Research Affiliates has launched a new version of Asset Allocation Interactive, an online investor tool that provides investment information and expected return data across more than 130 assets. The site features newly added alternative asset classes including real estate, hedge
