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Tollymore Investment Partners (Tollymore), a private investment partnership for long term investors, has generated returns of 19.9 per cent per annum gross since inception in May 2016. This includes a return of 8.9 per cent per annum gross in 2020 YTD despite significant market turmoil.Tollymore highlights that GBP1 invested at inception would be worth GBP2.08 today, after expenses but before fees paid to Tollymore. Over the same period GBP1 invested in the MSCI All Country World Index would have generated a return of 60p. Around two thirds of this benchmark outperformance, and around 85 per cent of the absolute investment result, would have
Style Analytics, a provider of factor-based portfolio and market analytics tools for investment professionals, has launched a new tool in investment management for instant comparison of funds on a wide variety of metrics.The new Similyzer tool uses fund holdings to measure how similar thousands of investment vehicles are to one another, helping investors make detailed comparisons on factor exposures, historic performance, risk measures and more.
Asset Managers can use Similyzer to identify uniquely differentiating aspects of their own funds, to assess all competitors’ strengths and weaknesses and to examine crowding in equity styles. Asset Owners and Consultants can use Similyzer
Tokenise Stock Exchange (Tokenise), a global fully-regulated digital securities exchange, has collaborated with GMEX Technologies Ltd (GMEX) to launch a regulated digital exchange.The partnership, established in September 2019, has now delivered a live digital exchange platform to support securities issuance, trading, surveillance, clearing, settlement and custody. The end to end solution for issuers and investors ensures regulatory robustness and adherence to exacting exchange-trading standards.
While operating out of London and the Caribbean, Tokenise is licensed in Barbados – a regulatory friendly jurisdiction when it comes to digital securities. The exchange aims to lead the way for the next generation of capital
Financial communications compliance provider NICE has integrated its Trading Recording System (NTR) on the Microsoft Teams platform to drive the digital transformation of financial services.
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The sudden and forced shift to remote working has served as an impetus for firms to transform their operations. Primarily, it has enabled the rise of more collaborative working methods, some of which will hopefully be embedded in future ways of working.
“Keeping staff engaged is the main challenge firms are facing,” George Ralph (pictured), managing director at RFA explains. In terms of communication and collaboration, video calling via systems like Microsoft Teams and Zoom has increased. The face to face contact such tools provide is important. “It really does help businesses stay connected… With tools like Microsoft Teams in place,
The idea that everyone would be working from home for an extended period of time was never truly contemplated in business continuity plans. But this is now expected to change in reaction to the current crisis. The experience over the past two months has taught the investment management business that, with the right tools, working from home can be an essential, and perhaps more practical and cost effective, element of BCPs going forward.
Historically, a key element of a BCP involved an alternate location, due to be used in case a firm’s primary office is inaccessible. The abrupt and extensive
The flexibility of a digital platform is its single biggest advantage, but it also represents its greatest risk because if not configured correctly, it can be a huge security concern. Automating the configuration of a cloud platform can help mitigate this and strengthen the security posture of a firm’s digital roadmap.
Although many financial services firms already had a cloud or digital transformation strategy in place, the Covid-19 crisis forced everyone into having a digitally dispersed workforce in an instant. So, service providers, like Edge Technology Group, have moved from from supporting and managing one primary environment per customer to
By A Paris – Business continuity plans are not generally lauded and many are often relegated to a proverbial dusty shelf while still remaining an important element of a business. The Covid-19 crisis has however thrown fund manager BCPs into the foreground and put them to the ultimate test. This baptism of fire has also caused some to re-evaluate their mode of working, with flexible working options, less travel and more video conferencing likely to form part of firms’ modus operandi going forward.
The sudden shift to remote working has seen groups with a robust digital infrastructure manage the transition successfully. One
Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital asset trading platform, has integrated Tether (USDt) into the OMG Network, a platform that enables peer-to-peer transactions in real-time, in an initiative that enhances the scalability of the Ethereum network.The integration of USDt onto the OMG Network will result in a reduction of confirmation times delivering faster payments while fees will be reduced without compromising on-chain security. USDt deposits and withdrawals on the OMG Network will be enabled via the Bitfinex platform.
“Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the OMG Network that supports thousands of transactions per second at a third of the cost
Athena Systems announced new versions of its Spark Investment Management platform to meet the needs of several growing capital markets segments that are underserved by the current vendors and systems.The four new product offerings are aimed at hedge funds, institutions, brokers, and outsourced trading desks.
“We have updated and re-organised our Spark product to help several different players on both the buy and sell-side of the street,” states Scott Sykowski, Director of Research at Athena. “For example, many order/position management system (OMS/PMS) vendors were forcing users into their ‘one-size-fits-all’ way of thinking about analysis, strategies and workflows; this is clearly
