PFPC Inc has consolidated its US and international alternative investment groups under one management structure headed by Joan Kehoe. In her new role as president o
Eurex US has reported strong results from the first week of trading in Russell 1000 and Russell 2000 index futures contracts. Satish Nandapurkar, CEO of Eurex US, s
A record number of over-the-counter interest rate swap trades were cleared in Q2 2010 by LCH.Clearnet’s IRS clearing service SwapClear. The total number of trades for the quarter reached 191,694 trade sides, a 30 per cent increase on Q2 2009,
Against a backdrop of the ASX200’s June fall of 2.89 per cent, and equity based funds in general which fell 0.57 per cent, market neutral managers were up 1.74 per cent in June, followed by event driven at 0.52 per
Cryptocurrency clearinghouse Mint Exchange is now live providing access to all major exchanges, brokers and market makers through a single account. Mint Exchange allows institutions to trade across all major cryptocurrency exchanges providing access to the most liquidity at the
Otkritie, a brokerage that provides direct market access to Russian equity markets, has launched a trading platform that aims to provide greater transparency and cost efficiencies for international investors trading directly into Russia. The new platform, which is backed by
UK pension funds advisor Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting doubled the number of alternative investment mandates awarded to fund managers in 2004. The total rose f
Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, has launched an aggregate bond service to help clients access fixed income trade data that is available as a result of MiFID II in a single, simple aggregated data feed.
Trading in futures on the large-cap Russell 1000 Index® and the small-cap Russell 2000 Index® has begun on Eurex US. In launching these products, Eurex US has furth
Aizawa Securities Co Ltd, one of Japan’s leading securities houses, has bought a minority stake in offshore fund management firm ProfitFundCom AG. As part of the de
