Most hedge funds are now moving to a permanent hybrid working environment as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, but concerns over team-building, collaboration and decision-making remain, as more managers look to expand their product offering into new areas and
JTC has acquired Essential Fund Services (EFS), New York-headquartered provider of a broad range of services in the alternative assets space, including accounting, reporting and administrative services to investment partnerships and their investment managers. The acquisition will be settled via
OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for institutional investors and academic researchers worldwide, has launched IvyDB Global Indices 3.1. This database offers even more options data across major indices in North America, including the United States and Canada; Europe,
JST Capital, a global financial services firm specialising in digital assets, has joined the Pyth Network (Pyth), an oracle platform designed to provide trusted and verifiable market data to decentralised applications, and will provide real-time institutional-grade crypto market data in
Northern Trust has enhanced the depth and range of alternative asset data it can provide to asset owner clients through a collaboration with Accelex, a data acquisition, analytics and reporting provider focused on the alternative investment space.
Glue42, the company that delivers integrated desktop experiences to financial institutions globally, and Aiera, a financial event access and speech technology platform that empowers investment teams and research analysts, are joining forces to put relevant event intelligence and insights at
The SBAI, a global alliance of alternative investment managers and allocators and custodian of the Alternative Investments Standards, has released the second in a series of reports on culture and diversity – Beyond the Metrics: Demonstrating and Assessing Diversity in
Maitland Fund Services has replaced its existing transfer agency platform with T-Cube, offered by South African company, Zubat Nine, to support transfer agency services to its global client base. T-Cube is a fast-growing system with not only transfer agency capability
Increasingly frequent spikes in the VIX volatility index could offer hedge funds and other investment managers strong return opportunities amid the resulting equity market gyrations, new analysis published by Man Group suggests.
Infrastructure and connectivity provider, BSO, has gone live in the Italian city of Bergamo, in keeping with its plans to cover more of Europe with its low-latency network. This expansion of BSO’s network will enable businesses to co-locate and directly
