Refinitiv has appointed Leon Saunders Calvert as Head of Sustainable Investing & Fund Ratings, a newly created role that brings together Refinitiv’s ESG Sustainable Investing and Lipper Fund Ratings businesses to increase focus on unearthing links between sustainable business strategies
Charles River Development and Axioma have formed a strategic partnership which will see Axioma’s risk and portfolio analytics integrated into the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS), a front and middle office platform used by more than 300
Acuris, a BC Partners and GIC-backed provider of global data, intelligence, research and analysis, has acquired Blackpeak, an investigative research firm. Co-founded by Jack Clode and Chris Leahy in 2011, Blackpeak has grown to become a premier provider of complex
Style Analytics, a provider of factor-based analysis software for investment professionals, is enhancing its Peer Insights product with data from eVestment, a provider of institutional investment data and analytics. Peer Insights, designed for the buy-side, provides objective factor-by-factor comparisons between
Investment firms – hedge funds, sell-side research groups, traders, and asset managers generally – are increasingly relying on the web (via the process of web scraping) as a source of investment data, a trend that is set to increase rapidly
Market data solutions provider MDX Technology (MDXT) has become the first provider of connectivity to real-time market data to integrate with OpenFin, enabling financial institutions and FinTech firms to consume multi-vendor market data feeds. With an extensive library of market
Much is written about the operational challenges that hedge fund managers face today but when it comes to data collection – ie reference data, pricing, portfolio valuations – and trade execution or standardised reporting, service providers and investors have to contend
The amount of data is exponentially growing. A paper by IDC, Data Age 2025, said that 16.3 zettabytes of information was generated in 2017 (one zettabyte is 1 billion terabytes), and forecasted this amount would rise to as much as
BCS Global Markets (BCS GM) has partnered with Russian analysts Evgeny Gavrilenkov and Alexander Kudrin, the founders of GKEM ANALYTICA, a macroeconomic research firm focused on macroeconomics and financial markets. GKEM ANALYTICA will collaborate with BCS GM’s award-winning analyst team
The Investment Management Due Diligence Association (IMDDA), an investor-based organisation dedicated to the professionals who perform investment and operational due diligence programmes, is offering its members preferred access to the Convergence database of operational due diligence tools and analytics. “IMDDA
