Outsourcing has not only become an accepted practice among hedge fund managers, it has become a necessity as funds large and small seek out ways to control their costs, manage their internal resources more effectively, and overcome the ever growing
Traditionally, hedge funds and private equity firms have allocated significant capital budgets to build out their own sophisticated Communication (Comm.) Rooms, which can take months to provision and bring online. With servers to buy and install, software to license and
EFG Hermes and Saxo Bank have formed a partnership which will enable full integration of Saxo Bank’s SaxoTraderGO platform with EFG Hermes’ new online trading platform, EFG Hermes One. The new platform will grant clients one-click access to financial instruments
Invast Global, a Sydney-based prime services provider, has been named Best Specialist Prime Broker at the 2017 HedgeWeek Global Awards. With a unique peer-review voting structure, the Hedgeweek Global Awards have grown to become one of the most prestigious and
XM Group (Trading Point Group), an FX and CFD broker, has launched the MT5 platform with offerings of over 300 CFDs on single stocks. The launch follows a series of testing phases which have made sure the additional platform is
Money market funds with a shorter settlement period of T+1 are now tradable via Deutsche Börse’s Xetra. These products are the first class of securities for which transactions are settled on the trading day following order execution. All other
Man AHL, Man Group’s diversified quantitative investment manager, has launched the second annual Man AHL Coder Prize, a coding competition for students with a top prize of GBP5,000. The Man AHL Coder Prize, which launched last year for students in
Linedata is extending its partnership with Morningstar in the area of fixed income and credit derivatives to include its Fund Services clients. Linedata says that as the search for returns in a difficult investment climate progresses, the investment management community
IPC, a provider of communications and networking solutions, has joined the Equinix Cloud Exchange (ECX) to provide access via its Connexus Cloud solution to cloud providers available in Equinix International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in North America, Europe and
Guernsey has introduced a Private Investment Fund (PIF) regime designed to provide fund managers with greater flexibility and simplicity. The PIF, which was developed in response to market demand by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) in consultation with the
