Dexion Capital is planning to list a new investment company, DCG IRIS Limited, on the London Stock Exchange. DCG IRIS Limited is a proposed new London-listed, closed-end investment company seeking attractive returns from insurance linked strategies (ILS). The IPO is
Global capital markets trading is being re-architected, led by a cost-conscious mix of hardware, software, data and fewer people, according to research by TABB Group. Driving this change are regulation-induced automation, particularly in fixed income and interest rate derivatives trading,
Range-bound volatility creates challenging market conditions for US options traders, forcing them into a more aggressive stance in a search for returns, says TABB Group in its seventh annual benchmark options trading study. This is driving traders to refine
SecFinex, an electronic marketplace for securities lending in all major European, US and Japanese equity markets established by the NYSE Euronext group, has announced that JPMorgan has bec
The first phase of CBOE Futures Exchange’s plans to expand CBOE Volatility Index (VIX index) futures trading hours will begin in late September, with the second phase to begin in the weeks that follow. The first phase of the
New York-based macro hedge fund manager Atreaus Capital is now live with SunGard’s Hedge360 Risk Reporting Service. Delivered as a managed service, the Hedge360 Risk Reporting Service provides highly customised daily risk reports, offering transparency to investors and integrated internal
Cor Financial’s Salerio has published a whitepaper examining how automation in appropriate business critical areas of hedge funds operations can deliver meaningful commercial advantages. Operational due diligence (ODD) is an increasingly important element in the decision making process of institutional
Abacus Group has launched the Abacus Client Portal to give its hedge fund and private equity fund clients greater control and transparency into AbacusFLEX services. The new service allows clients to quickly access informative data for resources being used for
Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services LLC, is actively working with its private fund clients to provide the data necessary for Form PF reporting. With Northern Trust’s single, global platform for operations and flexible data management capabilities, Northern Trust Hedge Fund
Since Xetra-Gold – a zero-coupon bond with perpetual maturity, representing a gram of gold, which is 100% backed by physical gold and represents the right to the delivery of gold – launched in 2007, investors have made use of this
