John C Ertman, a long-time litigator for the investment management industry, has launched a new, conflict-free litigation firm, Ertman Dulis & Helisek. The firm has offices in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and is uniquely focused on investment management
As part of its expansion in the Asian FX markets, XTX Markets’ Singapore entity (XTX) is building a new electronic foreign exchange (eFX) pricing and trading engine, which will go live in Equinix’s Singapore SG1 data centre in June 2018.
Boutique fund governance firm, Athena International Management Limited (Athena), has added an experienced professional independent director to its governance team. Sabrina Foster joins Athena with over 20 years’ experience in the alternative Investment funds industry, previously serving as an independent director
Thomson Reuters has added sell-side research from Deutsche Bank, Kepler Cheuvreux and European Securities Network’s (ESN) to the Investment Research Marketplace (IRM) solution on its financial desktop platform Eikon. Thomson Reuters IRM was launched on Eikon in March 2018 to
TransFICC, a specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for fixed income and derivatives markets, and SoftSolutions, a developer of high-performance mission-critical platforms, are partnering to provide clients with connectivity and workflow solutions for Interest Rate Swaps.Using TransFICC’s ‘One
ACA Compliance Group (ACA), a provider of governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) advisory services and technology solutions, has become a global sponsoring partner of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).
Hedge funds registered their strongest outperformance relative to underlying markets since February 2009, outperforming the MSCI AC World Index IMI (Local) by 6.18 per cent in February. Long Volatility/Tail Risk hedge funds led the performance tables and have outshined most
Smartkarma, an investment research network for independent research providers, has launched Boost Research, an accelerator programme designed to support investment analysts who want to start independent research businesses. Boost Research aims to improve the overall supply of independent research to
Chicago-based RJ O’Brien & Associates (RJO), one of the oldest and largest independent futures brokerages and clearing firms in the US, has selected Austin-based Eventus Systems, a multi-award winning global trade surveillance and market risk software platform provider, to provide
Canoe Intelligence, a financial technology company providing alternative investment operations for institutional investors, allocators and asset servicing firms, has signed a deal with Prime Buchholz, an independent alternative investment advisory firm.Canoe will automatically convert manager reports received by Prime Buchholz
