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Paladyne Systems has teamed up with Advise Technologies LLC, a regulatory reporting solutions provider, to specifically support Form PF requirements.
Paladyne Systems has integrated the Advise Technologies solution with the Paladyne Suite of data collection and data management products to enable fund managers and service providers to streamline their Form PF processes. The combined solution is hosted in Paladyne’s SAS-70 certified data centres to provide a seamless enterprise-wide platform and comprehensive toolset for collecting, normalising and aggregating data from all internal and external sources required to complete Form PF. This integration allows for a rapid on-boarding process to support the
Investment management company Kestrel Investment Partners (Kestrel) has launched a new global multi-asset fund, the Kestrel Global Portfolio. The fund launches with GBP25 million assets under management and a Silver grading from S&P.
The Kestrel Global Portfolio will be managed by John Ricciardi, assisted by Max Royde.
The well established Dynamic Asset Allocation investment process in the Kestrel Global Portfolio was first created by Ricciardi over twenty years ago. It allows Ricciardi and the fund management team to make allocation decisions based on relative levels of risk across asset classes on a global basis. The aim of the process is
Lyxor Asset Management this week announced the launch of its third alternative single manager on its Lyxor Dimension UCITS platform.
KB Associates, the boutique operational consultancy firm, this week announc
Jupiter Asset Management is to dispense with hedge funds altogether as a separate business line as it prepares to switch investors into regulated vehicles reported FINalternatives this week,
London-based Prodigy Capital Partners is initiating plans to restructure and redomicile its Prodigy Asia & Emerging Markets fund from the Cayman Islands to Luxembourg it said in a shareh
FTSE Group is to licence futures and options based on the FTSE 100 Index to the National Stock Exchange of India. The licensing agreement will see the exchange launching the new product on 3 May, following recent regulatory approval granted by the Indian regulator.
For the first time, Indian investors will gain access to the UK equity market through new rupee-denominated derivative contracts based on one of FTSE’s headline indices. The new contracts will be tradable by all equity derivatives members of the NSE through existing infrastructure, with no additional investment required.
The introduction of derivatives products based on
KB Associates, a consulting firm to the asset management community, has appointed Andrew Ritchie as an Executive Director.
Ritchie joins KB Associates’ London office where he will be responsible for advising asset managers on the structuring of investment funds, as well as providing managers with advice on a range of compliance, operational and governance issues. In particular he will focus on advising those managers who wish to establish UCITS funds or regulated hedge funds.
Ritchie has over twenty years’ experience in the financial services industry. He has previously held senior roles at HSBC’s fund administration and custody business
MarketAxess Holdings Inc (Nasdaq: MKTX), the operator of an electronic trading platform for US and European high-grade corporate bonds, emerging markets bonds and other types of fixed-income securities, has opened an office in São Paulo, Brazil.
MarketAxess received authorisation from the Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – CVM (Securities and Exchange Commission of Brazil) and the Central Bank of Brazil to offer e-trading of local currency debt in January of this year.
Sandy White, Emerging Markets Product Manager for MarketAxess, says: “We are pleased to expand our local presence in Brazil with the opening of our São Paulo office. Our clients
Lyxor Asset Management has teamed up with HAWK Quantitative Strategies – a company associated with Caxton Associates LP – to launch the third alternative single manager on its Lyxor Dimension UCITS Platform.
The Lyxor/Caxton HAWK strategy Index Fund offers access to a medium-term, trend-following strategy with a focus on Emerging Markets (EM). The investment strategy is based on a proprietary system developed by Jeff Enslin, a partner and portfolio manager at Caxton Associates LP, who has been trading macro/EM on a discretionary basis since 1995.
Enslin says: "As a systematic, liquid, and non-long biased strategy, the strategy has a low
