Managers
Montreux Capital Management has boosted the team behind its Commodity Trading Fund with the addition of experienced geologist and small cap mining entrepreneur Dr Steven Newbery.
Newbery, who is joining as an advisor to the fund, has more than 25 years’ experience in the discovery of base and precious metals. He has been responsible for the establishment, capital raising and market listing of a number of mining companies and has acquired significant industry experience at an executive level in volatile market environments.
Newbery is the founder of the Dubai-based MLI Group of companies, while he also resides on and acts
LMAX Exchange, an FCA regulated MTF for global FX trading, has become a member of the Linux Foundation, the non-profit organisation dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux.
LMAX Exchange will be a part of the Linux Foundation’s new Core Infrastructure Initiative, a multi-million dollar project bringing together more than 20 major international technology companies, including Microsoft, Intel, Google and Cisco, to identify and fund critical open-source infrastructure projects in need of investment.
Andrew Phillips, Director of Technical Operations at LMAX Exchange, says: “At LMAX Exchange we are firm believers in the power of open source technology to upend
The SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for February 2015 measured 2.19%. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index meanwhile, advanced 0.66% in March.
“March data showed a modest gain in the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index with both inflows and outflows somewhat muted, but broadly in line with seasonal expectations. The overall steadiness of the increase in hedge fund investments is noteworthy in light of recent higher volatility in financial markets. Clearly, there is considerable uncertainty around a number of issues: the direction of central bank policies, the EU response to Greece, the impact
Nasdaq has established a new energy futures market, Nasdaq Futures (NFX), with the support of leading commodities participants.
NFX will offer competitive pricing, an innovative clearing solution and high-performance technology for futures and options based on key energy benchmarks including oil, natural gas and US power, which will launch mid-2015 pending regulatory approval.
Nasdaq has secured support from prominent trading firms, inter-dealer brokers, and futures commission merchants (FCMs) to facilitate broad product distribution and early liquidity. Founding market participants include ABN AMRO Group, Advantage Futures, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley1 and Virtu Financial.
"Our strategy is always to meet
UBS Global Asset Management has listed a new ETF on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) offering investors access to commodities markets with the additional benefit of GBP currency hedging.
The UBS ETF (IE) CMCI Composite hedged GBP SF UCITS ETF is a swap-based ETF that enables investors access to broad commodities. The investment objective of the ETF is to deliver the performance of the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Composite Total Return GBP-hedged index by synthetically replicating the index performance through the use of futures contracts.
The UBS Bloomberg Constant Maturity Commodity Index is a 2nd-generation index which extends beyond use
ICAP Information Services (IIS) and CME Group have partnered with The Beast Apps Group to create and deliver RapidRV, a real-time market data and analytics tool designed to provide market participants with the capability to analyse relative value opportunities between the Over-The-Counter (OTC) and exchange-based futures markets.
"We're very happy to be partnering with CME Group and The Beast Apps Group to provide these real-time products and services for the futures and OTC markets," says Michael Kirby, IIS Americas Director. "As a leading OTC marketplace and data provider, ICAP is ideally situated to offer clients a unique view into the
DataArt has partnered with OpsCheck to develop and launch a web-based application which helps hedge funds maintain effective operational oversight in an increasingly challenging business and regulatory environment.
Conceived by Frank Caccio, a hedge fund industry veteran, OpsCheck (www.opscheck.com) gives hedge funds and other investment platforms an enhanced degree of command and control over their operational infrastructure and a new level of control and transparency into all operational activity, from the most granular to the highest-level tasks. DataArt contributed its industry expertise and technical acumen to help build the application, which has already been deployed at multiple hedge funds.
“DataArt
CBOE Holdings plans to list options on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM) and the MSCI EAFE Index (EAFE) beginning Tuesday, 21 April.
The announcement was made during a CBOE press briefing at the Futures Industry Association conference in Boca Raton, Florida.
In December 2014, CBOE Holdings, Inc. announced it entered into a licensing agreement with MSCI Inc, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, to offer options trading on several MSCI Indexes. Under the agreement, options on the MSCI Indexes will be solely listed for trading in the US on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Options
iMatchative’s new online data analytics, monitoring and matching service for institutional investors and hedge funds, AltX, will now use a data feed from HedgeFund Intelligence’s.
HedgeFund Intelligence’s global database of hedge fund performance tracks over USD2 trillion in assets under management and over 16,000 funds and contains performance information such as investment terms, strategy and historical AUM. The data feed into AltX will feature the US North Americas Absolute Return database of over 5,200 funds.
This partnership comes at an exciting time for iMatchative as they look to disrupt the investor-hedge fund intro market. Within the first year they already
Common Sense Investment Management (CSIM) has launched Common Sense Solutions, a bespoke portfolio construction and fund structuring service for institutional investors.
Common Sense Solutions couples 24 years of hedge fund research, investment & operational due diligence with specialised portfolio & fund construction services to offer institutional investors and family offices custom products. The process is designed to meet investors' specifications across varied strategies, geographic and sector exposures and risk-adjusted return targets.
Common Sense Solutions offers a consultative approach to building portfolios that will access CSIM's Hedge Fund Strategies and Liquid Strategies businesses. This will allow investors to focus their portfolios
