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BTIG has appointed Stefanie Gianakis as Director of Recruitment based in New York. In this new role, she will be responsible for staffing new and established business units across BTIG’s product lines.
“With more than 20 years of recruiting experience at investment banks and hedge funds, Stefanie is uniquely qualified to help advance BTIG’s global hiring initiatives,” says Scott Kovalik, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of BTIG. “She will drive our hiring strategy and tap into new sources of talent for our firm to effectively grow headcount and staff new ventures. Stefanie’s extensive experience managing the recruitment process for candidates across
The Maples Group, a service provider offering clients a range of legal, fiduciary, fund, regulatory and compliance, and entity formation and management services, has made a number of strategic hires to its team in the Cayman Islands.
Luana Guilfoyle, Nicolas Rogivue, Sonja Salmon, Nadish Seebaluck, and Linval Stewart have joined as Vice Presidents within the Maples Group’s fiduciary services team to provide specialist services to a broad range of structured finance transactions and special purpose vehicles.
With no sign of any slowdown in the pace of regulatory change and compliance obligations continuing to grow, it has become critical for
Third party funds are the first port of call for advisers when seeking exposure to alternative assets on behalf of their clients, according to new research by Seneca Investment Managers, a boutique Multi-Asset Value investment specialist.
When asked how they plan on getting exposure to alternative assets on behalf of clients, the most popular route for advisers (56 per cent) is through third-party multi-asset funds. Indirect investment follows (eg indexes, listed funds like private equity, REITs and property trusts), with nearly half (49 per cent) of advisers open to this route to market. Just 1 per cent of advisers didn’t
French asset manager Axiom Alternative Investments has appointed Gilles Frisch as Senior Portfolio Manager for its new UCITS format, long-short credit fund.
Frisch brings over 26 years’ experience in the investment management industry, having most recently held the role of Head of High Yield at Swiss Life Asset Management since 2010. He began his career in 1993 as a quantitative analyst at both Société Générale and Paribas Capital Markets before joining Transoptions Finance as an exotic options trader. In 1996, Gilles joined Dexia Asset Management, where he held the position of Alternative Portfolio Manager prior to his appointment as Senior
Natixis Investment Managers has selected ALPIMA for web-based portfolio design, optimisation and visualisation within its Solutions group.
Offered as an enhanced version of its cloud-based enterprise service, the ALPIMA platform will be delivered on a white-label basis and configured specifically to meet Natixis Investment Managers requirements.
Pierre Mendelsohn (pictured), ALPIMA’s Founder and CEO, says: “We are delighted to work closely with the Natixis Investment Managers team. Their forward-thinking approach, solutions mindset and deep derivatives expertise are second to none. We are proud to help Natixis Investment Managers accelerate the digitisation of their business and deliver on their client-centric vision.”
Wall Street Horizon, a provider of corporate event data to institutional investors, has launched corporate event data on the Open:FactSet Marketplace.
Wall Street Horizon’s Enchilada DataFeed offers more than 40 corporate event types including earnings announcements, earnings revisions, dividend dates, option expiration dates, splits, spinoffs and investor-related conferences. Easily accessible via FactSet’s online platform for testing and purchase, the events cover over 7,500 global equities.
The Enchilada DataFeed can help institutional investors and traders avoid surprises caused by an event- triggered swing in a stock’s price by allowing them to access all the updated events and event changes alongside bespoke
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was up 0.31 per cent in October, bringing its year-to-date return to 6.27 per cent. Roughly 30.1 per cent of the hedge fund managers comprising the index have recorded double-digit gains over the first 10 months of the year.
The global hedge fund industry AUM has declined by USD19.5 billion as of October 2019 year-to-date. Net outflows figure for Q3 stood at USD40.6 billion, which compares to the USD46.4 billion and USD40.0 billion of net outflows in Q1 and Q2 2019 respectively.
The Eurekahedge North American Hedge Fund Index was up 6.26 per cent year-to-date,
State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT) has launched State Street MediaStats Macro Linkages, a new set of quantitative investment insights derived from digital media.
First launched in 2016 with State Street partner MKT MediaStats, LLC, the new solution collects unstructured data from tens of thousands of curated media sources in order to quantify leading indicators of market behaviour with respect to price and risk across global equity and foreign exchange markets.
“Better access to information influences the way investors behave and academic research shows that economic linkages play a vital role in asset pricing and security co-movement,” says Will Kinlaw (pictured), head
Harmonate, a data services platform for funds, has launched a full-scale deployment of its latest data operations platform for funds.
Harmonate says the platform can provide 20 per cent cost savings in year one of implementation, and 80 per cent savings in ensuing years. Harmonate has also demonstrated a capability to reduce reporting delivery timelines by more than 80 per cent.
“Harmonate now provides funds with agile yet exceptionally strong software architecture and services for data operations,” says Kevin Walkup, President and COO of Harmonate. “Our systems, and the combination of both the soft and technical skills needed to
Scorechain, a crypto-tracking and risk management solutions provider, has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool, which is able to detect fraud patterns, in its Anti-Money Laundering cryptocurrency transaction monitoring software.
The AI feature aims to provide a more accurate risk-scoring for cryptocurrencies activity with more sophisticated blockchain services identification.
Scorechain Artificial Intelligence (SCai) allows the platform to predict the type of service a group of addresses stands for. The scalable model has given more than 92 per cent accurate predictions during the validation phase.
SCai predicts entity types when it is related to darkweb marketplaces, gambling, mixing
