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Danny Tan has been appointed as the head of investment funds for the Asia-Pacific region by law firm Ashurst International.
Pico, a provider of technology services for the financial markets community, has launched a new managed co-location facility for Japan Exchange Group (JPX).
Sucden Financial, a global multi-asset execution, clearing and liquidity provider, has appointed Thomas Hodge to build and run its new average pricing function within its LME business.As Head of LME Average Price Trading, Hodge will complement and extend Sucden Financial’s existing ability to facilitate LME hedging requests, providing a dedicated averaging service to allow an exact match between client risk and the LME’s daily date structure. In addition, Hodge will be developing quantitative analytics and models for use within the firm’s LME trading business.
Prior to joining Sucden Financial, Hodge was Co-Chief Investment Officer at Commodities World Capital (CWC), where
Hazeltree, a provider of integrated treasury management and portfolio finance solutions, and HedgeLegal, a specialist in trading document negotiation for the buy side, have published “Clearing up the Uncleared Margin Rules: A Comprehensive Guide for Hedge Fund and Asset Managers.”The guide is intended to assist hedge funds and asset managers in gaining a better understanding of their obligations under Phases 5 and 6 of the Uncleared Margin Rules (UMR or Rules).
While ISDA and other trade associations have asked for a delay in the onset of UMR amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been no sign (as of yet) that
The current environment is playing to the strengths of special situation hedge fund strategies, which seek to generate alpha from announced deals, and as merger spreads widen out, new opportunities are arising.
This is according to Wayne Yu (pictured), the CIO and CEO of BCK Capital Management, which he founded in 2015. Based in Stamford, Connecticut, BCK Capital runs a global market neutral special situations strategy that aims to deliver pure alpha to investors, using a robust risk programme to actively hedge against any exposure to market beta.
Yu says that recent market dislocations have led to a big overall
Sukanya Lal has been appointed as a Business Director in IQ-EQ’s Singapore team where she will focus on business development for India-focused private equity, hedge funds and family offices.Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
By Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners – Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) are one of only a few hedge fund strategies that performed well throughout the market selloffs of 2000-2002, 2008 and 1st Q of 2020. Yet, investor’s perception of the strategy is more divergent than any other major hedge fund strategy.
Crux Informatics is integrating a flagship product from SIX, Valordata Feed (VDF), which covers 29.7 million instruments for pricing, corporate actions reference data as well as compliance and regulatory data. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Drawbridge Partners, a cybersecurity software and services firm specialising in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers, has appointed Simon Eyre as Managing Director overseeing the European market.Eyre will lead Drawbridge’s engineering, product and customer engagement teams across Europe.
With deep expertise in the financial services sector, Eyre brings more than 20 years of IT governance, technology architecture, cybersecurity and corporate strategy experience to Drawbridge. He most recently served as Director of Information Security at Edge Technology Group and was responsible for cybersecurity for both Edge and its clients. Eyre holds the CISSP certification. Earlier in his career,
Somerset Capital Management, the global emerging markets specialist manager, is building positions in Brazil and South Africa in a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity for EM stocks following the recent global market downturn.
