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Eze Software saw strong growth across its operations in 2017, with the company adding 278 new multi-asset clients across all major market regions during the year.
Additionally, 70 more clients expanded their use of Eze Investment Suite with one or more applications. Another 20 emerging investment managers adopted Eze Eclipse as their operations platform. Overall, nearly 60 start-up funds adopted Eze Software technology in 2017 to grow their investment offices as part of a unique partner cost management program.
Eze Software also launched Eze Eclipse, its born-in-the-cloud investment solution for the entire investment process.
“2017 was a very
Matrix Private Capital Group has launched Matrix Highline Management to offer investors access to a differentiated equity strategy designed to complement the Firm’s advisory and investment solutions.
Matrix Highline Management will be led by Thomas Deutsch (pictured), Managing Director and Principal Portfolio Manager. Deutsch was previously a senior securities analyst at Neuberger Berman and brings over a decade of investment experience to the Firm.
Matrix Highline Management’s investment objective is to deliver attractive long-term performance and outperform broad market indices. To achieve this, the team will employ a flexible approach with the ability to invest across market segments and
Acolin Fund Services AG (Zurich) and Hugo Fund Services SA (Geneva) have formed a joint venture aimed at enhancing the two companies’ positioning within the global fund distribution market.
A new entity has been formed, Acolin Holding AG, under which both companies, and all other Acolin Group companies, will be consolidated. The new structure has been approved by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA).
Daniel Häfele (pictured), founder and CEO of Acolin Fund Services AG, will serve as CEO and Chairman of Acolin holding’s Board of Directors. Yves Hervieu-Causse, founder and CEO of Hugo Fund Services SA will
The Castlewood Select Opportunity Fund posted a 2.61 per cent gain for Q4 2017, capping a 12-month return of 16.79 per cent net of fees and expenses for the Macro Fund.
According to Mark Wittenstein (pictured), Managing Partner of the Castlewood Select Funds, the results extend to nine the Fund’s string of consecutive quarterly advances and the 2017 performance marks the third straight year of double-digit gains for investors.
“By some measures, investors rarely had an easier time making money than they did in 2017. Markets put together an impressive string of fresh highs and there were almost no
Sydney-based Morphic Asset Management is launching a new global equity strategy on the Trium UCITS platform, employing ESG factors to generate alpha on both short and long positions.
The Trium Morphic ESG L/S Fund launches on 20 February 2018, targeting European investors. It will be managed by experienced portfolio managers Jack Lowenstein (pictured), and Chad Slater.
Both managers have a multi-decade track record in successful, sustainable investing and will apply a fundamental equity long/short approach to the fund, targeting absolute returns. Multi-level risk management is at the heart of their approach and the fund will offer investors daily dealing.
J8 Capital Management has launched the UI-J8 Global Absolute Return UCITS Fund, opening up the firm’s systematic investment strategy to an institutional as well as retail audience.
The fund is now open for subscriptions and scheduled to launch on 28 February 2018. The founder share class, which features discounted management and performance fees, will be closed after launch.
Dr Tillmann Sachs (pictured), Chief Investment Officer and Founder of J8, says: “We are delighted to launch a Luxembourg UCITS fund based on our profitable J8 Global Absolute Return Strategy and equally thrilled to be able to open systematic global absolute
LiquidityBook, a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based provider of buy- and sell-side trading solutions, has reported record results across all sales and client growth metrics the firm tracks for 2017.
The growth was fuelled by exceptionally strong demand globally for its industry-leading POEMS (portfolio, order and execution management system) platform, which provides considerable cost, management and functionality benefits versus the legacy platforms many investment managers currently employ.
Overall the firm’s global client base grew by nearly 25 per cent in 2017. This included 10 new client wins in the fourth quarter alone, half of which were multi-billion AUM funds. Much of the
EEX Group recorded significant increases in trading volumes on the natural gas, emissions and agricultural markets in 2017. Volumes also increased on the power spot markets while the power derivatives markets showed a year-on year decrease.
“While the power market was driven by major regulatory uncertainty in 2017, the combination of a defined diversification strategy in conjunction with strong innovative solutions has resulted in impressive results in all business segments except power derivatives which in turn, enables us to continue along our growth path,” says Peter Reitz (pictured), Chief Executive Officer of EEX.
In total, a volume of 3,760.7
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up 2 per cent last week amid a strong economic pulse worldwide, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research Team.
Global Macro managers outperformed thanks to their portfolios’ allocations to equities and FX. Their constructive views on EU and Japanese stocks fostered their returns, while short EUR & GBP and long MXN and RUB added to their profits.
CTAs delivered similar returns, boosted by trends in equities and energy. On the negative side, their long EURUSD shaved off part of gains.
L/S Equity funds performed thanks to their
Offering a unique combination of hedge fund like returns in a liquid and regulated form, Alternative UCITS funds continued to increase their popularity with investors in 2017. Total Assets under Management for the industry grew 16 per cent EUR450 billion.
That’s according to the latest Market Overview from LuxHedge which reveals that asset growth was nicely distributed across the different strategies with Equity Hedge Funds attracting 14 per cent and Fixed Income Relative Value funds gaining 17 per cent in assets. The largest asset growth was realised by Global Macro and CTA funds which both advanced 25 per cent in
