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Options, a provider of colocation services for trading firms, today announced the deployment of next generation market data monitoring from Ixia, a Keysight business.
The deployment of TradeVision at Options’ core data centre locations in Mahwah, NY4, NJ2, Carteret, and Aurora will provide automated alerting across hundreds of multicast feeds, reducing the complexity and resources needed to detect and resolve data packet issues as they occur.
With more than 1,300 feeds and pre-programmed support for hundreds of trading venues worldwide, TradeVision delivers a unique combination of advanced network visibility and market data monitoring. Options currently operates more than forty
Duet Group (Duet) has selected global single-source financial solutions provider, Apex Group Ltd. (Apex), to deliver full depositary and fund administration services for their liquid Africa strategies.
Duet is a global investment holding company, founded in 2002, and a controlling shareholder of multiple asset managers, including Duet Private Equity, Emerging Markets Investment Management, Duet Alternative Investments, Merit Capital, and the Group’s centralised service company Hill Street Limited. Since its inception, the firm has developed an established portfolio of products with liquid funds including Frontier Markets Equity, Multi-Strategy and Global Event Driven. The mandate is for Apex to provide full depositary
TFG Asset management, a diversified alternative asset manager that owns majority and minority private equity stakes in asset management companies, is broadening its structured credit investing business under Tetragon Credit Partners.
The business has evolved from a historic focus on primary CLO control equity to a broader series of offerings across the CLO capital structure. TFG Asset Management is part of Tetragon Financial Group Limited, a closed-ended investment company that is traded on Euronext in Amsterdam N.V. and on the Specialist Fund Segment of the main market of the London Stock Exchange.
The CLO investing business – historically called Tetragon
SS&C Technologies Holdings, is to acquire certain Algorithmics and related assets from IBM. Algorithmics provides leading risk analytic products and services for the financial services industry worldwide.
The addition of Algorithmics, which is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter, pending the completion of customary closing conditions, will extend SS&C’s risk analytics and regulatory offering.
The acquisition adds over 200 clients, 350 employees and offices in 25 countries. Client types include banks, broker dealers, asset managers, hedge and private equity funds and service providers. Algorithmics’ solutions deliver the risk analytics clients need to address the impact of business
Nasdaq’s Quandl, a provider of alternative and core financial data, has appointed Evan Reich as Head of Data Strategy and Sourcing. Reich was formerly Global Head of Data Strategy and Sourcing at BlueMountain Capital.
Reich joins Quandl with over a decade of experience within the industry and a deep domain knowledge of alternative data. In this new role, Reich will lead Quandl’s data strategy and sourcing team to find new alternative data sources that are relevant to Quandl’s customers. Previously, at BlueMountain Capital, a USD18 billion multi-strategy hedge fund, Reich sourced and managed the firm’s alternative data and market and
MSR Indices (MSR) has launched an institutional investment platform, which will provide investors with access to the returns of MSR Investable Indexes through established third-party asset managers.
The platform is meant to provide a liquid alternative to investing directly with a commodity trading advisors (CTA), hedge fund, or traditional long-only manager.
“We are thrilled to provide access to the returns of MSR Indices in an efficient manner,” says Michael Rulle, founder and CEO of MSR. “For a long time, the only way investors could access bespoke strategies like risk parity and risk control was through opaque, illiquid and high-fee
New hedge fund launches increased for the second consecutive quarter in Q2, with launches through mid-year 2019 on a pace that could see the industry top launches from calendar year 2018.
Launches totalled an estimated 153 in Q2 2019, bringing the H1 total to 289 new funds, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Report by HFR.
The H1 2019 launches put the industry on pace to top the 561 launches from last year, which represented the lowest annual total for new funds since 2000.
Fund liquidations declined but remained elevated on a calendar year basis, with liquidations
For the eighth year running, Hedgeweek has recognised the achievements of the leading hedge fund managers and their services providers – as well the sector as a whole – at the annual Hedgeweek USA Awards.
The winners were presented with their awards in a ceremony at the Intercontinental in New York City on 26 September 2019.
This year, Hedgeweek partnered with BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions, to pre-select managers based on their performance over the previous 12 months. The winners were then decided via a rigorous reader-choice online poll carried out over ten weeks. The winners in all
Marion Leslie is to join SIX Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX) as Head of the Financial Information business unit as of 1 January 2020.
Leslie (pictured) has many years of experience and a proven track record in the international financial information business. Robert Jeanbart, Business Unit Head Financial Information, has decided to take retirement and will be leaving SIX at the end of December 2019.
Jeanbart joined the Executive Board of SIX in May 2014, since which time he has been responsible for the Financial Information business unit. Robert Jeanbart successfully restructured the Financial Information business unit of SIX, focusing the
Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) has appoined Matthew Davey as Head of Coverage, Marketing and Solutions (CMS) UK, a newly created role.
Davey is based in London and reports to Christophe Baurand, Global Head of CMS and to Bertrand Blanchard, Head of SGSS UK. In this newly created role, effective from August, Davey’s responsibilities are to implement and drive the growth of the SGSS business in the UK.
Davey was previously Head of Business Solutions, a position he held since December 2016. He maintains these responsibilities for now, in addition to his new ones.
Baurand, Global Head of
