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OTAS Technologies (OTAS), a provider of market analytics and trader intelligence, has partnered with Wall Street Horizon to provide its institutional investment and trading clients with highly accurate and timely corporate event dates and information.
Through this partnership, Wall Street Horizon's corporate event information will be made available through OTAS's Portfolio Analytics application. Wall Street Horizon's expanding set of forward-looking and historical corporate event datasets include earnings dates, dividend dates, options expiration dates, splits, spinoffs and a wide variety of investor-related conferences. The accuracy and timeliness of these datasets combined with OTAS's analytics will enable clients to confidently capitalise
Imagineer Technology Group, a provider of technology solutions for investment management firms, has released the Clienteer CRM Spring 2016 update.
The Spring Release of Imagineer’s flagship product features many enhancements to the system’s current functionality sets helping users streamline their accounting, compliance and operations workflows even further. Clienteer is now seamlessly integrated with Preqin, allowing users to easily pull data from Preqin into Clienteer.
“For this update we focused on alleviating some of our client’s operational pain points, developing new tools that help keep contact data clean, coordinate meetings among colleagues and manage and report on events,” says Avi Giladi,
Five out six of the six MVIS investable Long/Short Equity Indices recorded positive performance in May, with the sixth remaining flat.
The MVIS Asia (Developed) Long/Short Equity Index led the way with a return of 1.58 per cent, followed by the MVIS Global Long/Short Equity Index (1.19 per cent), the MVIS North America Long/Short Equity Index (0.50 per cent), the MVIS Western Europe Long/Short Equity Index (0.29 per cent) and the MVIS Emerging Markets Long/Short Equity Index (0.23 per cent).
The MVIS Global Event Long/Short Equity Index recorded no change during the month.
Each index is constructed using transparent, liquid
After more than ten successful years the Swiss currency specialist Quaesta Capital is rebranding as QCAM Currency Asset Management AG.
“With the change of name – a logical consequence of our company development – we will further live up to our specialisation and unique position,” says QCAM CEO Thomas Suter. “We stand for independence, transparency and trustworthiness.
“QCAM provides institutional and private clients with a personalised service that is customised to all their Currency and Asset Management needs. Particularly in our globalised markets FX expertise in Asset Management leads to a significant increase in earnings and risk improvements.”
Geoff Blanning (pictured), Head of Commodities, comments on why he believes that a new bull market for commodities has begun…
Following five years of devastatingly poor returns in the market, sentiment towards commodities is at rock bottom, but it’s starting to turn following the surge in the prices of a wide variety of products since the beginning of the year.
The biggest price gains, in percentage terms, occur at the beginning of a bull market. And the best (lowest risk) time to buy anything is when the consensus expectation is turning from bearish to bullish, as is happening now in
Calderwood has officially launched and is now open for business in the Cayman Islands, providing experienced independent directors to a range of investment vehicles.
Calderwood has been formed by Ronan Guilfoyle and Wade Kenny, both very well known in the Cayman fund sector, who together have over 17 years’ experience within the governance industry, serving as independent directors on some of the largest funds in the industry.
Guilfoyle was previously a Managing Director at DMS Offshore Investment Services and was significantly involved in the firm’s strategic development, sharing leadership responsibility for its European offices and spearheading its international expansion. As
Fund governance firm DMS Offshore Investment Services (DMS) has added Efficient Capital's CTA Index Fund to its UCITS ICAV platform.
The fund aims to provide investors with medium to long term capital appreciation through investment of approximately 50 per cent of its Net Asset Value in a total return swap which is referenced to the Efficient Capital CTA Index, and the remainder in cash and cash equivalents. The Index is comprised of investment funds and managed accounts traded for the benefit of such investment funds that utilize a range of CTA strategies.
DMS has developed a proprietary UCITS V compliant
EJF Capital (EJF), an alternative investment firm that currently manages approximately USD4.9 billion in assets, has chosen Arcesium’s full service platform for its middle- and back-office needs.
Neal J Wilson, Chief Operating Officer of EJF, says: “We are pleased to engage Arcesium and its technology and services to help EJF perform critical reconciliation, portfolio analytics, performance reporting and treasury management functions.”
“We welcome EJF to the Arcesium platform and look forward to supporting the firm in the effective management of its funds,” says Gaurav Suri, Arcesium CEO. “Having a sophisticated investor like EJF come on board as a customer is
HedgeMark International, a BNY Mellon company that provides hedge fund dedicated managed account and risk analytic services, has completed the implementation of Axioma Risk.
Axioma Risk is a next-generation multi-asset class risk management platform that allows clients to support their risk reporting across diverse and innovative investment strategies more seamlessly and with increased efficiency.
“Existing risk management solutions rely on legacy systems and technology that cannot meet the demands of modern multi-asset class investing,” says Sebastian Ceria (pictured), CEO of Axioma. “Axioma Risk is a purpose-built multi-asset class risk platform that leverages the latest technology to deliver unparalleled performance
Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) and Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services have signed a partnership agreement whereby Deutsche Börse will act as the licensor of TAIFEX market data and information products to all international clients.
Clients will be able to benefit from the state-of-the-art licensing services offered by Deutsche Börse, which already functions as a licensing partner for a whole range of trading venues around the globe such as BSE India, Irish Stock Exchange and Bulgarian Stock Exchange.
“Our partnership with TAIFEX gives customers access to the full range of real-time, delayed and end-of-day data products offered by both exchanges
