CME Group Executive Chairman and President Terry Duffy and Chief Financial Officer John Pietrowicz will present at the Sandler O'Neill 2016 Global Exchange and Brokerage Conference in New York, on Thursday, 9 June at 3:00 pm Eastern Time. The presentations
Are you looking to set up an alternative investment fund? If so, then Hedgeweek’s “Setting up an Alternative Fund in Europe” will give you access to world class experts providing advice on how to navigate this challenging path. This one-day
Mesirow Financial, an independent diversified financial services firm, has gone live on Clarient Entity Hub, a utility-based service designed to simplify client data and document management. Mesirow adopted Clarient Entity Hub to automate non-core, manual Know Your Customer (KYC) processes,
Over the last decade the approach to running a hedge fund’s operations has changed markedly, thanks largely to improvements in technology. Ten or fifteen years ago, the perception among hedge fund managers – when launching their hedge fund – was
HW: What are the core services that Invast offers to financial clients? GW: Invast is a global, multi-asset Prime Services provider. We provide credit intermediation, access to liquidity (both OTC and exchange), sophisticated trading platforms/ API connectivity options, administrative/back office
FactSet Research Systems is to sell its market research business focused on advisor-sold investments and insurance, consisting of Market Metrics and Matrix Solutions, to Asset International, a portfolio company of Genstar Capital. The total purchase price is approximately USD165 million,
Choosing the best prime broker to support the strategy is vital, but will depend on the manager. A portfolio manager spinning out of a hedge fund with an established track record and experience in running a pot of capital, will
By Bob Guilbert – You're a new fund manager, and somewhere on your task list the letters "IT" are probably followed by a question mark. Odds are, you don't have a technology background, so as your firm's Chief Operating/Financial/Compliance Officer
Cloud technology – The scale of a manager's IT infrastructure will largely depend on the type of trading strategy. A quantitative market neutral statistical arbitrage fund is likely going to spend more capital on front-office portfolio management, risk management systems
If one were to sum up the key role of a hedge fund administrator, it is to independently value a fund's assets, allocate those assets correctly to individual investors, and accurately report the allocations to those investors. Investors want an
