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Osmosis Investment Management, a London based sustainable asset manager, has closed an equity investment from Capricorn’s Sustainable Investors Fund, a seeding fund focused on sustainable and impact investment managers. The deal, which was closed in the first quarter of 2020, will see Capricorn’s Sustainable Investors Fund join the Oxford Endowment Fund as large minority shareholders of Osmosis (Holdings) Limited and Capricorn partner Michaela Edwards take a seat on the Osmosis board. The strategic equity investment will deepen the firm’s US presence and facilitate the launch of the Osmosis Sustainable Market Neutral Strategy for US investors.
The strategy will be a levered
Traders using Deutsche Börse’s Xetra can now leverage ultra-low latency colocation connections as fast as 5-85 nanoseconds via Transaction Network Services’ (TNS) innovative TNSXpress Layer 1 solution.TNS is offering a combination of managed hosting, colocation and connectivity options which utilise the TNSXpress Layer 1 single hop architecture that is up to 10 times faster than traditional Layer 3 architectures. This development also allows TNS to provide the Xetra Enhanced Order Book Interface (EOBI) feed, in addition to the market by price feed it offered previously.
“We’re delighted to be building on our relationship with Deutsche Börse by introducing these
As the global economy slowly emerges from the coronavirus lockdown, conditions could be set for a weaker US dollar, in turn strengthening emerging market equities, according to new research by analysts at Man Group.
Sentifi has launched new investment analytics to allow institutional investors to detect portfolio sentiment and market momentum in real-time, based on data from social media, news, and blogs.
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SmartStream Tecnologies has extended its Public API allowing clients to have direct programmatic access to the company’s TLM Collateral Management solution. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Wheelhouse Advisors, a specialist provider of services to the financial services sector, has launched following a private equity backed management buyout of the Financial & Regulatory Reporting and Tax divisions of ACA Compliance Group.The London-headquartered business has operated since the early 2000s, initially as the boutique firms HedgeStart and Sigma Partnership, before their merger as Cordium Accounting Limited. The incumbent management team has been bolstered by the addition of Louis Hunter as Finance Director to help drive strategic acquisitions.
Backed by private equity firm Pelican Capital, the 40-strong Wheelhouse Advisors team provides holistic solutions across disciplines to its clients, whether
International broker dealer Velocity Trade is to deploy FX technology provider Integral’s workflow automation and trading tech across its eFX and CFD trading network. Integral’s cloud technology offers Velocity Trade full automation and customisation of the eFX and CFD workflow, including sophisticated pricing and risk management tools, alongside a feature rich trading platform and mobile trading app which supports Velocity Trade’s suite of FX and CFD products.
Due to the high-level of configuration and full range of functionality available, Velocity Trade can maintain a tailored FX and CFD service to their institutional client base. As a cloud-based platform, Integral’s technology was
OpenGamma, a margin optimisation provider, is partnering with IHS Markit, a world leader in critical information, analytics and solutions, to help mutual clients reduce the cost of margin management.
Deer Park Road is maintaining an aggressive short position in commercial mortgage backed securities as the market continues to fall because of lockdown. Although the Colorado-based structured credit manager, which was established by Michael Craig-Scheckman in 2003, expects to shift to a long position in CMBS when the right entry point emerges towards the end of the year, or in early 2021.
“Coming into 2020, we were fairly concerned with CMBS, in particular on the retail side,” comments Scott Burg, CIO and Portfolio Manager. “We went into the beginning of this year with a significant short position on the CMBX
Morgan Lewis has added a new investment fund team, including two parters, with wide-ranging private investment funds experience.
