AcenciA, which specialises in debt strategies, plans to float on the Irish stock exchange and raise up to GBP 60 million through a shares placing. Application will
FTSE Group and DPT Capital Management have launched the FTSE Target Exposure Commodity Index Series, a series of rules-based long-short commodity indices derived from Professor John M Mulvey’s risk management and portfolio allocation approach – Dynamic Portfolio Tactics. The
Equity-focused hedge fund strategies exhibited returns that were broadly consistent with market dynamics in February, according figures released by Edhec-Risk. Edhec’s long/short equity strategy (0.41 per cent) showed some negative alpha, the equity market neutral strategy (0.34 per cent)
Beauchamp Financial Technology (BFT) has extended its product suite with the launch of a new Application Programming Interface (API). Beauchamp’s API is two-way,
Following a slowdown in trading activity from mid-year 2009 to mid-year 2010, US institutions are hopeful about a recovery in equity derivatives trading volumes in 2011, but hardly bullish. Based on an analysis of the amount of commissions paid by
Restricted Stock Partners’ (RSP) new Restricted Securities Trading Network (RSTN) facilitates the buying and selling of restricted securities of public companies. R
The Managed Funds Association has written to ISDA suggesting changes to its new trading protocol for the booming USD 12.43 trillion credit derivatives market. Acco
David Gorton and Brevan Howard have formed a joint venture, DG Systematic Trading, to pursue systematic trading strategies. Gorton is the chief investment officer of the new venture with responsibility for the management and development of trading strategies based upon
Four new members including a new chairman have been elected to the Exchange Council of Eurex Deutschland this week. The four new members are: Helmut Oliver, member of the Executive Board of
