Centaur Fund Services, an independent fund administrator, has expanded its US footprint with the opening of a new office in Fair Lawn, New Jersey. This expansion is in response to the growing demand for independent fund administration solutions from North
SS&C Advent: Best Managed Accounts Software Provider – As investment in alternative assets continues to rise, asset managers’ needs for technology, hosting and services are also increasing. The alternative investment arena requires specialist skills, and as the regulatory pressure for transparency
Algebris Investments is seizing on opportunities in strong, strategically important companies globally that are benefitting from government support during the downturn, as central banks “drop all their taboos” to support the global economy. Portfolio manager Alberto Gallo, who runs the
Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman’s “very negative view” and “good sense of timing” powered the firm’s stellar USD2.6 billion gain last month but the high-profile activist hedge fund manager does not fear a protracted 1930s-style depression as a result of
By A Paris – Last year was challenging for hedge fund managers. Although the market registered a dimension of recovery, regulation and fee pressure continued to ramp up while performance did not always to live up to expectations. However, hedge fund managers
IOWArocks has added Marex Spectron into its rapidly expanding community of content creators and content consumers. Marex Spectron is a commodity broker, providing its global client base with an unrivalled breadth of coverage in metals, energy, and agricultural markets. Paul Watmough,
Singapore-based companies CACHE, a provider of fully-redeemable digital assets backed by gold, and Onchain Custodian, a digital assets custody service provider backed by Fosun, Sequoia and DHVC, have formed a strategic partnership to enable the insured safekeeping of gold-backed tokens. Onchain
Specialist insurance provider, CFC, has launched its first insurance solution for financial institutions. CFC’s Investment Management Insurance (IMI) policy is the first in a suite of products designed to address the challenging risk environment faced by investment managers. Combining its
Shorter-term managed futures strategies are gearing up for further episodic spikes in volatility in the coming months, leading to more opportunities to capitalise on continued market unpredictability. Trend followers largely withstood March’s market turmoil, notching up generally positive returns as
BMLL Technologies, a data engineering and analytics firm, has built a Derived Data desktop application on OpenFin’s OS. The application will provide buy-side users with access to market metrics created from the most granular Level 3 order book data, to analyse
