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Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services is launching the new analytic ‘Risk Alerts’ on 23 November. The new product informs market participants in real-time about unusual price and order book behaviour of the most important Eurex futures.
Alerts are automatically triggered, when certain thresholds for changes in traded prices, bid-ask spreads and order book resilience are exceeded. Thresholds are calibrated on a daily basis so that messages are only generated when exceptional order book situations could occur.
“Risk Alerts are the newest addition to our range of real-time analytics products. Our alerts are based on the original order book
Docupace Technologies has launched its new ePACS AI Solution software, which is designed to streamline the entire alternative investment process while addressing compliance standards.
The ePACS© AI Solution will, automatically generate a tailored list of clients within an advisor’s book of business who are eligible for the public, non-traded alternative investment vehicles available on his or her broker dealer’s platform.
In addition it will ensure that investment recommendations comply with product eligibility and concentration regulations, and reduce paperwork redundancies by incorporating electronic signature functionality.
ePACS AI Solution simplifies the investment process to ensure transactions are processed in a
New York-based Pulteney Street Capital was established in 2013 by Sean McCooey. Launched in May of 2013, the PSP Multi-Manager Fund (`PSP') is a multi-manager, multi-strategy liquid alternative fund. By using an SMA structure, Pulteney Street is able to monitor portfolios in real time, allowing it to tactically re-allocate capital among managers. Typical investment strategies include: long/short equity, event-driven and liquid credit.
With respect to identifying new managers, emphasis is placed on combining both emerging and established fund managers into the PSP fund. Of the 800 managers that pass the initial screening stage, Pulteney's team then evaluates and performs due
This June saw Hedge Fund Research broaden its suite of indices with the introduction of the HFRL® family of indices, representing the performance of liquid areas of the hedge fund industry. This adds to the existing set of HFRI, HFRX and HFRU indices that are used by global investors and allocators to benchmark their hedge fund performance.
"We are very excited to offer the HFRL Indices," says Kenneth J Heinz (pictured), President of Hedge Fund Research. "The HFRL harnesses the universe of constituent funds from the HFRX to create an intraday performance benchmark, representative of the most liquid components of
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for September 2015 measured -1.56 per cent, while edge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index were down 1.13 per cent in October.
"SS&C GlobeOp's Capital Movement Index for October 2015 was -1.13 per cent, down from the previous month's 0.62 per cent, reflecting primarily seasonal factors," says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. "Comparing year-over-year flows, the -1.13 per cent for October 2015 was virtually identical to the October 2014 reading of -1.12 per cent, with both inflows and outflows
The fourth quarter of 2015 started on a strong footing, reversing the previous market downturn. During the first week of October, risk assets rallied, with the MSCI World up 5.8 per cent, following expectations that the Fed will postpone its first rate hike well into 2016. Implied equity volatility fell, the USD depreciated against major currencies, high yield spreads tightened, in particular in Europe, and commodities rallied. Finally, emerging markets received a breath of fresh air with the upturn in commodity prices.
The latest factsheet from Preqin provides a roundup of private equity fundraising in the third quarter, featuring breakdowns of fund closures by strategy and geography, data for time spent on the road, dry powder, and the 10 largest private equity funds to close in Q3.
View the full factsheet here.
BATS Global Markets (BATS) has reported record market share in both its US options and US exchange-traded fund (ETF) trading businesses in September.
In US options, BATS reported market share of 11.0 per cent in September, surpassing the previous record of 10.9 per cent set in August 2015. In September, BATS was also the market leader in single-leg equity option trades with 17.5 per cent market share, up from 17.3 per cent in August when BATS was also the market leader1.
In US equities, BATS reported market share of 22.0 per cent in September, tying the 22.0 per cent
UBS Hedge Fund Solutions has become the first investment manager to re-domicile a Cayman fund as an ICAV under the Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicle Act of 2015.
ICAVs are a new corporate fund vehicle in Ireland which are tailor-made for investment funds as they combine the advantages of each of the existing fund vehicles used in Ireland into one. The result is a more efficient and effective fund structure over the alternatives, such as a public limited company, with a simplified compliance framework and enhanced distribution opportunities.
UBS Hedge Fund Solutions, the Investment Manager, collaborated on the development
Soltra, a joint venture of FS-ISAC and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), is to launch the Soltra Network, a new offering designed to connect cyber threat intelligence sharing across intelligence producers, intelligence consumers, communities and cyber security tools.
The new service will work alongside Soltra’s existing threat information sharing platform, Soltra Edge. Soltra Edge was developed in partnership with the financial services industry; its cyber security capabilities have been extended to other key segments, including the retail and healthcare sectors.
Soltra Edge acts like a threat intelligence server that aggregates and distributes threat content within an organisation and
