In recent years equity swaps have emerged as one of a series of equity derivative products that are playing an increasingly integral part in how hedge funds gain exposure to
The first of a six-part guide by Dermot S.L. Butler, Chairman of Custom House Administration & Corporate Services Limited (Custom House). 1. What is Administration? “Administration”, in the context of Alternative Investment and Hedge Funds means, in effect,
The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has published the Standardised Trial Data License Agreement, which addresses issues investment managers face when trialling new data sources, especially ‘alternative data’ and ‘big data’. The SBAI is a global standard-setting body for
Lyxor Asset Management announces the launch of a new personalised website designed to optimise portfolio construction and enhance transparency for professional investors on its leading managed account platform (MAP). The new online environment will provide professional investors the ability to
Derivatives exchange and clearing house Eurex has come out in support of European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy’s call for action to improve market infrastructure in trading and clearing o
QuantHouse, an independent global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data services, algo trading platform and infrastructure solutions, has added access to Quantitative Brokers’ (QB) best execution algorithms for futures and fixed income to its platform. QB is
The last few years have seen explosive growth in the hedge fund industry, as consecutive years of negative equity returns have prompted investors to search for alternatives
Fidelity Investments has launched a new company, Fidelity Digital Asset Services, which will offer enterprise-quality custody and trade execution services for digital assets (cryptocurrencies) to sophisticated institutional investors such as hedge funds, family offices and market intermediaries. “Our goal is
EuroCCP has partnered with Swift’s central trade matching platform to provide prime and executing brokers central counterparty clearing services for their over-the-counter pan-European equity trades. The collaboration is one of the first to offer European prime and executing brokers the
Conifer Securities, a San Francisco-based provider of business and operations solutions to asset managers and institutional investors, has entered the prime brokerage business, in co-opera
