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PineBridge Investments (PineBridge), a private global asset manager, has appointed Henrique Francisco as Chief Technology Officer.
In this role, he will lead the firm’s global team of IT professionals, and work closely with firm leaders to define and drive the firm’s IT strategy. He is based in New York and reports to PineBridge COO Michael J Karpik.
Francisco has over 20 years of experience in leading large global technology functions across a range of financial services, including investment management and fund services. He was most recently Head of Distribution and Client Technology at OppenheimerFunds Inc in New York, where
JP Morgan’s Data and Analytics business and StatPro, an AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, have formed a partenrship to develop Risk and Performance Attribution capabilities for portfolio managers through JP Morgan’s flagship data and analytics platform.
This offering will provide JP Morgan clients access to StatPro’s Portfolio Analytics platform, StatPro Revolution, alongside JP Morgan’s Fixed Income Benchmark Indices. This will enable front-office decision makers to dynamically manage their risk and performance, while simultaneously accessing the breadth of services JP Morgan makes available on its client platform.
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The European Fund and Asset Management Association, EFAMA, has elected Nicolas Calcoen, Deputy General Manager of Amundi, as President for a two-year term, which will run until June 2021, at its AGM in Paris.
The AGM also elected Myriam Vanneste, Global Head of Product Management of Candriam, and Jarkko Syyrilä, Head of Public Affairs of Nordea Asset and Wealth Management (AWM), as EFAMA’s Vice Presidents for the same two-year term.
Calcoen, who has just completed a two-year term as EFAMA’s Vice-President and succeeds William Nott as President, is head of Finance, Strategy and Public Affairs at Amundi. Prior to
River and Mercantile Group PLC has appointed James Barham as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective Monday 1 July, in line with the Group’s established succession plan.
Barham, currently Deputy CEO, will take on the position from Mike Faulkner, who has decided to focus on the management and development of the Group’s range of macro strategies. Faulkner will remain on the Board as an Executive Director and become the Group’s Head of Macro Strategies and Innovation.
Faulkner says: “The Group has made significant progress over the last five years in the development of its service offerings. Within this, I believe
Enfusion, a provider of innovative, cloud-based investment management software, outsourced, middle & back office services and data analytics has appointed capital markets industry veteran, Larry Leibowitz, to its Board of Directors.
Leibowitz is recognised as an expert in technology and business transformation within the financial services industry. Over his thirty-year career, Leibowitz has held many notable positions including Chief Operating Officer of NYSE Euronext, Founding Partner of Bunker Capital, and numerous additional Board positions.
“We are ecstatic to have Larry join our Board of Directors,” says Enfusion President Jason Morris. “As a growing FinTech organisation, we are eager to further
big xyt, an independent provider of high-volume market data analytics has launched Consolidated View, an extension of the market analysis metrics available to all members of the investment community from the Liquidity Cockpit platform and 250days website dashboard.
The new views allow access to a standardised independent view of the trading activity across the equity and ETF trading landscape in Europe.
big xyt clients, including multiple global exchanges and investment banks, have increasingly been using detailed information and analytics from the Liquidity Cockpit as a reference to validate their trading performance to their clients. By allowing complimentary access via 250days.com
Yotta Connect, a provider of technology solutions and services to the alternative asset management industry, has appointed Andrew Rosson as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
Partnering with Nick Monos, CEO, and Ravi Atluri, CCO, Rosson will be responsible for building and managing the firm’s growing CTO Consulting Services practice. Rosson recently left the long/short equity firm, Stelliam Investment Management, where he had served as Chief Technology Officer and Chief Administrative Officer since 2013. Prior to Stelliam, Rosson was a CTO at several leading alternative asset management firms. The CTO Consulting business focuses on providing strategic advice to small and mid- size
CAIS, a financial technology platform connecting financial advisors with alternative investments, is partnering with Private Client Resources (PCR) to streamline the delivery of analytics-ready data for independent financial advisors and fund managers.
“The CAIS Platform is constantly seeking solutions to improve access and usage of alternative investments for independent advisors,” says CAIS President Tim Shannon. “We are pleased with PCR’s ability to automate previously challenging reporting processes for advisors and managers. PCR has normalised over 8,000 of our advisor end-client accounts to make this alternative investment data useable in the adviser’s reporting, analytics, or accounting software.”
PCR’s integration partnership
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was down 0.71 per cent in May, bringing its year-to-date return to 4.32 per cent. Roughly 15.0 per cent of the hedge fund managers comprising the index have recorded double-digit gains over the first five months of the year.
The global hedge fund industry AUM has grown by USD0.5 billion as of May 2019 year-to-date. Final Q1 2019 net outflows figure stood at USD46.4 billion, just under half of the investor redemptions totalling USD94.7 billion seen in the final quarter of 2018.
The Eurekahedge Asia ex Japan Hedge Fund Index was up 5.51 per cent
Nomura Alternative Investment Management (NAIM), a London and Paris-based quantitative investment manager within Nomura Group has launched the Nomura Diversified Absolute Return UCITS Fund.
The Fund aims to deliver absolute returns with a low volatility profile (close to 3 per cent pa), low correlation to traditional asset classes and low drawdowns. It will aim to achieve its objective by capturing a diversified portfolio of risk premia across fixed income and currency markets through a strategic allocation using systematic quantitative strategies.
Managed from Paris, strategic changes will be overseen by NAIM’s Investment Committee which is led by Laurent Michel, NAIM’s
