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The ACI – The Financial Markets Association (ACIFMA), a global finance trade association with over 8,000 international members in five continents, has signed an agreement with the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI).
ACIFMA, established in 1955 and based in Paris, France, represents the interests of the professional financial markets’ community, focusing on enhancing best market practice and supporting market participants to adhere to principles of ethical conduct. It has a global network of National Associations in 61 countries and offers a suite of education and certification products and services.
The agreement between the CISI, which has 45,000
The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index (ICI) increased to 72.9 in April, up 1.7 points from March’s revised reading of 71.2.
Confidence among North American investors improved, with the North American ICI rising from 68.3 to 71.1. The European ICI declined by 1.5 points to 86.7 and the Asia ICI decreased by 6.7 points to 92.9.
The Investor Confidence Index was developed by Kenneth Froot and Paul O’Connell at State Street Associates, State Street Global Exchange’s research and advisory services business. It measures investor confidence or risk appetite quantitatively by analysing the actual buying and selling patterns of institutional
GPP, a prime broking, investor services and wealth solutions firm, has hired Tiffany Roberts as Head of Compliance.
GPP, which launches ten years ago, provides prime brokerage, execution, custody and clearing services to hedge funds, wealth managers and broker-dealers.
Roberts will take on the role after over three years at a hedge fund as senior compliance officer. Her appointment is the latest in GPP’s strategic expansion of its leadership team, following the recent hires of Todd Johnson as Chief Operating Officer (COO) and James Parker as Chief Risk Officer (CRO).
GPP is building out its management structure as it enters
RWC Partners has today launched the RWC Next Generation Emerging Markets (NGEN) Fund for its established Emerging & Frontier Markets team.
The fund, offered as part of the RWC Funds Luxembourg-domiciled SICAV, will be managed by RWC’s co-head of Emerging & Frontier markets, James Johnstone (pictured). Johnstone is supported by an 18-strong emerging and frontier investment team which currently manages over USD7 billion on behalf of its clients.
The fund is designed to provide investors with unconstrained access to high growth opportunities in the emerging and frontier market universe that are under-represented by current indices and funds and which represent
TD Asset Management (TDAM) has launched two new alternative investment solutions for accredited investors – the TD Greystone Mortgage and Short Bond Pooled Fund Trust and the TD Emerald Private/Public Debt Pooled Fund Trust.
The funds are available exclusively to TD Wealth Private Wealth Management clients and provide access to TD Greystone Asset Management’s (TD Greystone) portfolio investment expertise in alternative assets.
“These funds offer investors the potential benefit of diversification because of their low correlation to the equity market, as well as protection against inflation,” says Bruce Cooper, CEO and CIO, TDAM. “This is the first of several investment products that
Stonyrock Partners (Stonyrock) and Leucadia Asset Management (LAM), a division of Jefferies Financial Group, have formed a strategic partnership to raise a permanent capital vehicle to invest in middle market alternative managers.
Stonyrock will target minority equity stakes in high-quality, middle-market alternative managers across a range of asset classes, strategies and geographies, including private equity, credit, hedge funds, real estate, venture, and infrastructure, creating a highly diversified portfolio of partnerships. Stonyrock’s strategy seeks to address the growing demand from alternative managers to bring in outside capital to execute on a range of strategic priorities including franchise growth initiatives, operational investments
GSR, a specialist in algorithmic digital assets trading and market making, has Bitcoin Variance Swap, which allows Investors, traders, and companies to purchase and hedge their digital asset portfolio against the volatility of bitcoin.
Volatility in the world of cryptocurrency often makes front page news as massive swings in and out of the nascent market can cause huge fluctuations in value of digital asset portfolios. For the crypto markets, high volatility is part of the game. The introduction of a Bitcoin Variance Swap will allow traders, investors, and companies the ability to hedge against market volatility that happens during bitcoin price
Amundi has appointed Ryan Myerberg as Head of Absolute Return – Global Fixed Income, effective 23 April. He will be based in London.
Myerberg joins Amundi from Janus Henderson Investors where he was a Senior Portfolio Manager for Global Macro and Global credit strategies. He was responsible for global economic, policy and political analysis, and was a member of the Investment Strategy Group, responsible for global asset allocation decisions across a number of fixed income strategies. He previously served as an international fixed income trader responsible for trading non-U.S. fixed income securities.
Prior to this, Myerberg was head of European fixed
Alpima, a specialist front-office platform for institutional and professional investors, has appointed Matt Johnson as Managing Director of Sales, reporting to IIan Heiman.
Johnson joins Alpima from CoinShares, where he was Head of Sales. Previously, Johnson worked in a number of senior industry roles, most recently at Invesco, Nomura, ETF securities and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Pierre Mendelsohn, Founder and CEO of Alpima, says: “We are delighted to have Matt join us. Matt is a very talented professional and a great manager. He brings unique expertise acquired on both the buy- and sell-side across a broad range of products
McKay Brothers International (MBI), a provider of microwave-based private bandwidth and market data services, has connected the Dubai Gold & Commodities Exchange (DGCX) to its European and US ultra-low latency network.
McKay’s new routes will further lower the latency between DGCX and major European and US trading hubs, thus improving the ability of McKay Brothers’ clients to not only access the DGCX, but also to trade in the most effective manner.
Les Male, CEO of DGCX, says: “We are delighted to welcome McKay Brothers to the DGCX. The addition of DGCX to their network and of McKay Brothers to ours, will
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