Managers
Taliance, an analytics software provider in the alternative investment marketplace, has selected Hipercept, to serve as its channel partner for North and South America.
Taliance’s software solution, GlobalAsset, complements the technology infrastructure of alternative asset investment firms through real-time, dynamic forecasting, scenario modelling, and consolidated analytics capability for the front and middle office. Using GlobalAsset, customers in over 16 countries have demonstrably improved the performance of their international investment portfolios.
“Alternative asset investment firms worldwide have long demanded fund and asset analytics technologies that are able transcend the obvious shortcomings of home-grown spreadsheets and disparate data,” says Damien Georges
CME Group saw agricultural products reached a record of 2,873,291 in trading volume on 30 June, 2015, surpassing the previous record of 2,856,869 set on 26 June, 2015.
CME Group also confirmed records in daily trading volume for the following CBOT grain and oilseed products:
• Combined Corn futures and options volume reached 1,122,398, compared to the previous record of 1,091,950 set on 26 June, 2015.
• Corn futures reached 845,770, surpassing the previous record of 796,786 on 26 June, 2015.
• Combined Soybean futures and options volume reached 722,777, compared to the previous record of 649,908 on 26 June,
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has launched “Gateway”, its Irish UCITS platform solution which is designed to support asset managers seeking to establish and market UCITS in Europe.
The solution provides access to an investment fund structure, Gateway UCITS Funds, which allows asset managers to establish UCITS compliant funds as separate sub funds within this umbrella structure. Sub funds can be established quickly and marketed independently.
With significantly lower start-up and running costs, asset managers can benefit from a model which is more cost efficient than establishing a standalone fund. The funds also benefit from an infrastructure that offers
For any hedge fund manager, winning a mandate from a sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is the Holy Grail. These are the biggest institutional investors on the planet and also offer, potentially, the stickiest capital given their multi-year investment horizons.
One should therefore take encouragement from the fact that SWF allocations to hedge funds have steadily risen from 31 per cent in 2013 to 33 per cent today, according to the latest research by Preqin in their Hedge Fund Spotlight June report. But the fact remains that SWFs remain under-allocated to the asset class; 60 per cent do not invest at
CV Holdings has entered into a Securities Purchase Agreement and an Investor Rights Agreement with an affiliate of Tricadia Capital Management in connection with the sale in a private placement of shares of newly created Non-Convertible Senior Preferred Stock shares of Common Stock of the Company.
The Tricadia investment is expected to replace the existing funding source for the Company's co-investment requirements on its NPL business. The Company is currently evaluating several other investment opportunities and, subject to Tricadia's approval, may decide to pursue one or more of them.
The Investor may purchase up to USD50.0 million of Preferred
Best Credit Data (BCD), a provider of end of day bond pricing data, is partnering with Exchange Data International (EDI), to distribute BCD Municipal Bond End-of-Day Pricing data to EDI clients around the world.
BCD Municipal Bond Pricing provides end of day pricing for over 1.25 million US municipal bonds every day and roughly 8 years of daily history. The partnership gives EDI’s customers the opportunity to subscribe to BCD municipal bond pricing data. Customers will be able to access data fields including: price, yield, spread, multiple duration calculations, convexity, and OAS.
“We are excited to partner with EDI,” says
CarVal Investors has completed the final close of CVI Credit Value Fund III (CVF III) with USD3 billion in commitments. The fund is investing in undervalued opportunities with a strong focus on portfolios of whole loans coming out of the deleveraging of European banks.
The Fund will also invest in corporate securities, liquidation claims and structured credit.
The Fund has 83 institutional investors, including Cargill and a diverse range of public and private pension plans, endowments, foundations, family offices and corporate investors.
“We were very pleased with the strong reception to our latest credit offering and value the trust our
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched a new centralised data provisioning service, DTCC Data Products, which include the expansion of DTCC’s ETF and Corporate Actions ISO 20022 data product offerings.
DTCC Data Products was created in response to growing client demand for more centralised on-demand DTCC data provisioning. The service aims to provide data that helps firms meet increasing regulatory demands, reduce risks, increase operational efficiencies, gain access to better market insight, lower operational costs, and bring greater transparency to their business operations. As envisioned, DTCC Data Products will directly source cross-asset-class data captured across DTCC’s clearing,
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) in Luxembourg has been mandated by Athena Capital to provide a full suite of custody, administration, valuation and registrar services for its alternative investment fund range.
SGSS has been selected in recognition of its alternative investment fund expertise and competitive offering, as well as for its innovative regulatory reporting services. The AIFMD reporting package, “R303”, offers alternative fund managers three different modular options to produce the required regulatory reports and assists in filing them with the local regulator. This overall offering allows Athena Capital to concentrate on its core investment activities whilst ensuring the company
Tradeweb Markets’ actionable axes have significantly improved institutional investors’ access to high quality liquidity for European government and corporate bonds.
Tradeweb axes provide valuable pre-trade information in today’s challenging environment of constrained dealer balance sheets and reduced market liquidity.
Tradeweb is the only trading platform with real-time axes for European government bonds, in addition to axes for European credit, covered bonds, and supranationals, agencies, and sovereigns (SAS). Twenty eight corporate bond dealers provide more than 3,500 axes at a time for investment grade and high yield instruments, in addition to approximately 5,000 runs. Twenty liquidity providers also support more
