On 19 October 2017, Deutsche Bank announced that they had sold their Alternative Fund Services business to Apex Fund Services (`Apex’). It is the latest example of consolidation in the alternative fund industry as organisations decide whether to stick or
By A Paris – Alternative data and data science techniques can help give hedge funds a competitive edge but, it is the symbiotic integration of human and machine which ultimately underpins managers’ success or failure in their use of these techniques. “We
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&PDJI) is now publishing carbon metrics on the majority of its equity indices, including the S&P Global 1200, S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average and environmentally-focused indices including S&P Global 1200 Carbon Efficient Index Family and
Global investment research platform Alphametry has launched a comprehensive research management solution for the buy-side. Alphametry Investor will provide all asset managers, regardless of their size, with the benefits of a powerful, cloud-based solution enabling them to manage all their
As various pharmaceutical companies around the world endeavour to find a workable vaccine against the coronavirus, alternative data could help funds take an investment view on where the value lies in this global race.
The growing computing power witnessed in the past few years has led to data becoming more accessible, often at the touch of a button. Though there are huge benefits to this, the progress also means the danger of information overload
Bricknode has released a tax reporting app for the platform Bricknode Financial Systems in order to streamline tax reporting for financial institutions. Tax reporting involves generating tax verification data and tax filings for local tax agencies and is one of
Japan Macro Advisors (JMA), whose clients include a few of the world’s largest hedge funds and global manufacturing companies, has launched "My Charts," a set of web-based analytical tools to help economists and decision makers stay on top of the
The manager of Finnish airports, Finavia, reports that Lapland has been fully prepared for a busy winter season, with air traffic volumes expected to be the highest since 2007, and some 500 charter and scheduled flights arriving in Lapland in
Over-the-counter (OTC) market information specialist ICAP Information is to provide Limina Financial Systems with interest rate derivatives and money markets data generated from ICAP’s deep liquidity pool. Access to high quality pre-constructed interest rate curves and data enhances the risk
