Brodie Consultancy Group, a UK-based financial services marketing and communications consultancy, has launched with a focus on the alternative funds and commodity sectors. The founder, Alastair Crabbe, is the former Global Head of Marketing and Communications at Marex Spectron and
Small to mid-sized investment firms continue to face significant challenges in operating compliance programs that are needed to meet intense regulatory scrutiny, according to Optima Partners, a leading global financial regulatory compliance firm. In an ever-changing regulatory environment, investment firms
StatPro Group, a provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has made two new senior appointments and announced a new divisional structure for its Canadian operations. In alignment with the Group’s strategic
The BVI remains an attractive option to US and Asia Pacific fund managers thanks, in large part, to new structures such as the Approved Fund and Incubator Fund, according to Peter Jakubicka, Business Development Manager at Circle Partners. Circle Partners
Independent depositary firm INDOS Financial is now offering a new ESG oversight service, which will be led by Matthew Queree, the company’s newly-appointed Head of ESG Oversight. INDOS Financial, now has USD28 billion of assets under its oversight, plus a
The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has published the Standardised Trial Data License Agreement, which addresses issues investment managers face when trialling new data sources, especially ‘alternative data’ and ‘big data’. The SBAI is a global standard-setting body for
Quant Insight, a London-based firm specialising in machine learning-driven macro analytics, in partnership with Euronext, has developed a new alternative data service, Macro Risk Insight, to provide asset managers with insight into the risk exposure of their investments to global macro factors. Macro
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) and Addventa have agreed a partnership to launch a service for automated drafting of portfolio management commentaries based on artificial intelligence solutions. Management companies, who are SGSS clients, will benefit from an automated and instant
Fund administrators have, over the last decade, focused a lot of attention and marketing dollars to persuade clients to buy customised, premium value-add services, in a bid to stand out from the crowd. To some extent, this has been a
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has released its latest Data Services product, DTCC Equity Kinetics, providing institutional investors with a comprehensive depth of market view of activity across all US equity trading venues. DTCC says the data is
