Managers
Eze Castle Integration, a provider of strategic IT solutions and cloud services to the alternative investment industry, has been named Best Cloud Provider in the 2017 Hedgeweek Global Awards 2017.
The annual reader’s choice award programme honours excellence among hedge fund service providers.
Keeping the winning streak going, Eze Castle Integration won three additional awards. The company was named “Best IT Consultancy” in the HFM US Technology Awards, “Best Cloud Solution” in the Fund Technology and WSL Awards, and received placement on CRN’s 2017 Managed Service Provider 500.
“Our clients rely on Eze Castle Integration to be their
Invast Global, a Sydney-based prime services provider, has been named Best Specialist Prime Broker at the 2017 HedgeWeek Global Awards.
With a unique peer-review voting structure, the Hedgeweek Global Awards have grown to become one of the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated awards in the global hedge fund industry.
During an elegant luncheon ceremony held amongst the opulent halls of the Reform Club in London’s Mayfair district, Australian-based, Japanese-backed multi asset prime broker Invast Global was voted HedgeWeek Global Awards 2017 Best Specialist Prime Broker. Past winners of the Best Prime Broker award are Societe Generale Prime Services (2015)
Broadridge Financial Solutions has extended its global post-trade control capabilities for sell-side and buy-side firms in capital markets through the acquisition of Message Automation, a provider of post-trade control solutions.
"Broadridge is a global leader in driving technology innovation and business model transformation. The addition of Message Automation will enhance our ability to help companies to reduce risk and enhance compliance while improving operational efficiency," says Charlie Marchesani, president of the global technology and operations division of Broadridge.
"This is the third acquisition related to broadening our post-trade and data analytics capabilities. These recent acquisitions in securities financing, collateral
Risk technology specialist Numerix has acquired TFG Financial Systems, a real-time risk, P&L and position management system.
TFG’s dependency graph capabilities, at the heart of its SaaS risk and portfolio management software and technology framework, will be leveraged to provide core real-time, distributed, event-driven processing capabilities in Numerix Oneview enterprise trading and risk solutions.
“Built on a real-time, distributed, fault tolerant, event-driven calculation framework with dynamic directed graph technology, TFG is a state-of-the-art software built for real-time systems. We’re proud to be adding the highest level of performance for front office real-time scenarios – spanning solutions for automated structured
Hathersage Capital Management, a global macro investment manager specialising in G10 currencies and absolute returns, has won the Best Foreign Exchange Hedge Fund award at the Hedgeweek Global Awards 2017 ceremony in London.
Hathersage manages the Citi Access Hathersage G10 Macro Access Strategy.
Hedgeweek Global Awards 2017 for excellence among hedge fund managers were determined by the votes of Hedgeweek readers who include investors and managers as well as other industry professionals at firms including fund administrators, custodians, accountants and auditors, law firms, consultants and fund distributors.
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Cowen Prime Services, the prime services division of Cowen Group, has been named Best Global Prime Broker at the 2017 Hedgeweek Global Awards.
This is the second consecutive year that Hedgeweek has honoured Cowen Prime Services with this award.
The Hedgeweek Global Awards celebrate excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers and celebrates the achievements of firms that contributed to another significant year for the sector. The winners, who were presented with their awards in London on 3 March, were decided by a poll of Hedgeweek readers, who include both investors and managers as well as other industry professionals at
Alcentra, the alternative fixed income specialist of BNY Mellon Investment Management, has held the final close of its second European direct lending fundraising.
This fundraising has brought recent commitments to EUR4.3 billion across funds and separately managed accounts. The firm’s committed capital for the strategy now exceeds EUR5.7 billion.
The fundraising is part of the broader direct lending strategy that Alcentra has been offering to institutional investors since 2003. To date, Alcentra has invested over EUR5.3 billion in middle market companies across senior debt, unitranche, second-lien, mezzanine and equity investments.
Alcentra has been sourcing and arranging financings to
London-based Garraway Capital Management has announced that it is to build on its strong 2016 performance with a programme designed to build its assets. Its Irish UCITS fund, Garraway Financial Trends, was launched in 2012, becoming a ‘pure’ UCITS strategy in February 2014.
The firm writes that the fund employs a proprietary systematic trend-following strategy to trade across global UCITS-eligible exchange-traded futures, including currencies, stock indices and government bonds.
Darran Goodwin (pictured), Fund Manager of Garraway Financial Trends, says: “After a solid three-year track record trading its current strategy and excellent performance in 2016, we are now at the stage
Agecroft Partners has been named as Best Third Party Marketer Firm at the Hedgeweek Global Awards 2017 – the sixth time in seven years that the company has won the award.
“We are honoured to have won this award and more importantly we are happy that the market place approves of the job we are doing,” says Agecroft’s founder Don Steinbrugge (pictured).
Agecroft’s five partners, who average over 20 years of industry experience, have helped raise tens of billions in assets over their careers and have changed the model of hedge fund third party marketing.
Most third party
STOXX, the operator of Deutsche Boerse Group’s index business, and a global provider of tradable index concepts, has launched the STOXX Climate Impact and STOXX Climate Awareness Indices.
This next generation of low carbon indices incorporates the CDP climate change scoring methodology which evaluates companies based on their progress in the transition towards a low carbon economy.
The STOXX Global Climate Impact ex Global Compact, Controversial Weapons, Tobacco Index has been licensed to the Finnish Varma Mutual Pension Insurance Company (Varma) for benchmarking purposes. This index includes only companies that show strong environmental stewardship as they have climate actions
