Regulation Automated Trading (Reg AT) is the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) attempt to provide rules around the ever-changing and growing automated trading environment on the US Futures Exchanges. Many of the proposed regulations and safeguards are already in place
Frost Consulting has launched FrostRB, a research valuation & budgeting software platform which gives asset managers the ability to establish monetary (dollar) values for specific unpriced research products and construct monetary research budgets that meet MiFID II research spending requirements.
Hedge funds are expected to outperform equity markets in 2016, according to Deutsche Bank’s 14th annual Alternative Investment Survey, Additionally, 41 per cent of respondents plan to increase their hedge fund allocations during the year. The survey, which polled the
Frost Consulting has launched FrostRB, a research valuation & budgeting software platform which gives asset managers the ability to establish monetary (dollar) values for specific unpriced research products and construct monetary research budgets that meet MiFID II research spending requirements.
The introduction of the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) is having little impact on the scale of US alternative fund managers’ activity in the European market, according to research looking at US manager attitudes towards the regulation. The
The Hedge Fund Standards Board (HFSB), the standard-setting body for the hedge fund industry, has published its standardised Administrator Transparency Reporting (ATR) data structure as part of its Toolbox. The HFSB is custodian of the Hedge Fund Standards, and is
Obtaining accurate look-through data on fund of funds investments is set to be the second great Solvency II hurdle facing insurers and asset managers, according to Silverfinch’s 2015 review. The report states that the advent of Solvency II means that
Institutional trading desks are approaching alternative trading systems with more caution and, at times, even skepticism, according to the Greenwich Associates 2015 Trade Desk Optimisation Study. And that’s despite dark pools’ share of total US equity volume holding steady at
Hedgeweek is conducting a reader survey to gain a better insight into the current state of the hedge fund industry, and we would love you to participate… This poll of our readership is designed to provide insight into how hedge
The latest semi-annual survey of the European repo market by the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), has set the baseline figure for market size at EUR5,608 billion, broadly unchanged from the June 2015 survey figure of EUR5,612 billion. The survey
