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Style Research, an independent, global provider of portfolio style, risk and performance analytics, is launching a product to enable investment professionals to directly compare fund portfolios based on style factors.
Peer Insights provides users with deep, independent insight into portfolios, removing much of the speculation and hyperbole that exists in the industry.
With more than 20,000 mutual funds now vying for attention, it's become increasingly difficult for investors to distinguish between portfolios, and for fund managers to stand out from the crowd. Users of Peer Insights can compare portfolios and fund managers either on a standalone basis or against industry
Eurex Clearing has connected Bloomberg as an approved trade source for EurexOTC Clear, the Interest Rate Swaps Clearing offering of Deutsche Börse.
With the addition of Bloomberg, traders using Bloomberg’s electronic trading or post-trade voice confirmation systems can now directly submit their OTC trades for clearing on Eurex Clearing’s OTC CCP. The first trade to be successfully cleared using this direct connectivity was between Société Générale and Zürcher Kantonalbank.
The direct connectivity enables Bloomberg’s large sell- and buy-side community to benefit from straight through processing (STP) of their OTC transactions, reducing time to market and providing a valuable improvement for
McKay Brothers International has added Euronext equity index futures to its industry-leading Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service. The QED service now offers select Euronext instruments at the lowest known latency at major UK trading centres.
Latency to Slough-LD4 is 273 microseconds, Interxion-LON2 is 140 and Quincy’s Central London POP adjacent to the LSE is 142. “Risk takers and risk managers understand that quickly receiving and processing key exchange data can meaningfully impact performance,” says MBI Managing Director Francois Tyc. “We are pleased to offer Euronext data at the lowest known latency to QED subscribers.” MBI’s UK Local millimetre network connects
Eons Energy Investment, a Cayman Islands-registered investment management company founded in 2015 by Weber Su and Jeff Shen, both based in Beijing, has selected Wells Fargo Global Fund Services to provide fund administration services for its first fund.
“We selected Wells Fargo Global Fund Services as our fund administrator because of its keen insights into the investment management business, low employee turnover, and stability as a financial institution. We appreciate the company’s experience dealing with valuation in today’s increasingly complex global capital markets and the fact that the team shares our commitment to risk management,” says Eons Energy Investment Managing
The Singapore Diamond Investment Exchange (SDiX) has launched the world’s first commodity exchange for physically settled diamonds. The SDiX platform aims to standardsze global trading in diamonds as an asset class.
The launch of the exchange represents the most significant change in global diamond trading practices in hundreds of years. The platform is designed to enable accredited investors to trade diamonds as an asset class for the first time by providing an independent, electronic, and regulation-ready global market that creates a transparent price discovery mechanism for diamonds. As a result, banks, financial firms and investors will for the first time
More than 55 per cent of total revenue from Saxo Bank’s private clients is now generated from trades on SaxoTraderGO, just a year after the launch of the the platform.
Half a year ago, SaxoTraderGO was rolled out to the bank’s white label partners and today more than 100 white label partners are live with GO, offering their end clients the platform in the 28 supported languages.
Saxo Bank has also unveiled a new global equities market overview on SaxoTraderGO incorporating a number of new modules – Indices, Gainers and Losers, News, Calendar Events and Overview Chart.
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The Perella Weinberg North American Equity Long Short Fund is to launch on the Fidante Partners Liquid Strategies UCITS platform in May, subject to regulatory approval. It will be managed by Perella Weinberg Partners Capital Management (Perella Weinberg).
The new fund combines a long short equity strategy with an event driven portfolio to provide diversification and enhance returns. This is the second fund to join the Fidante Partners Liquid Strategies platform, following the launch in July last year of the Keynes Dynamic Beta Strategy Fund managed by Wadhwani Asset Management LLP.
The long short portfolio typically holds between 30
Jabre Capital Partners has launched the European Credit Opportunities Fund on its JABCAP (LUX) UCITS Platform. The fund will apply long, short and paired trading strategies to an unconstrained portfolio of absolute return opportunities in European corporate credit.
The Fund has the ability to invest in all parts of a company’s capital structure and employs a range of investment instruments, investing across the ratings spectrum.
Jabre Capital Partners has appointed an experienced credit team, led by Farid Gargour and Angus Rosborough who are based at Park Vale Capital, in London. The team of four moved from RAB Capital in early 2016, where they
The April 2016 average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR6,948 million (-23.4 per cent compared with April 2015). However, the number of shares traded remained resilient (-3.8 per cent).
After 21 months of continued growth, the activity on ETFs softened during April 2016 with an average daily transaction value at EUR548 million, down 14.0 per cent compared to April 2015. Nonetheless, our ETF offer continued to expand with the first two listings on Euronext London.
The average daily volume on equity index derivatives was down at 211,268 contracts during April 2016 (-16.1 per cent
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has registered its first dry bulk freight derivative trade for clearing last Friday, marking an important milestone for its new global commodities segment.
The trade was registered for 90 lots of the Q4 2016 Capesize 4TC contract at a price of 8,750 US Dollar per lot. The trade was conducted by Gunvor Group company Clearlake Shipping, and another counterparty, having been arranged by the broker Freight Investor Services.
Steffen Köhler, Chief Operating Officer of EEX, says: “The trade in our freight sector represents another important landmark for EEX. With these trades, we are entering a
