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AlternativeSoft is a multi-award-winning quantitative analytics software specialising in asset selection, portfolio construction and customised reporting. It is the only analytical tool on the market that allows users to build and manage a universe with data easily imported from any source including Bloomberg, Morningstar, Albourne, HFR, EurekaHedge, HFM, Preqin and many more.
Using AlternativeSoft’s powerful quantitative analytics, investors can identify top-performing fund managers as well as construct and optimise portfolios of fund allocations.
“Our ultimate goal is to use data and knowledge to empower investors,” says Laurent Favre (pictured), CEO and Founder of AlternativeSoft. He explains further: “Investors want to
Cyber security is a relatively new compliance requirement in the investment management space. Align sees cyber security as a multi-factorial phenomenon and thus its team takes a multi-disciplinary approach to providing comprehensive solutions to the cyber security challenges investment managers face day-to-day, as well as within the context of their capital raising, ODD and compliance activities.
John Araneo (pictured), managing director at Align, explains that in 2018, the firm bolstered its cyber security offering by making remarkable progress in building a mature outsourced IT offering that utilises the public cloud and is specifically optimised for investment managers. As a sibling
Agecroft has changed the model of hedge fund third party marketing,” says Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners Founder and CEO. “Most third-party marketing models are based on leveraging personal relationships and doing extensive entertaining. Ours has been to build a global brand with a reputation as an industry thought leader, strong institutional investment knowledge and representing very high quality managers.”
Agecroft Partners has been a prolific writer of industry thought pieces and white papers. Often asked to share their thoughts with the media on the hedge fund industry, they have also been a regular guest on Bloomberg Television and CNBC and have
The Xena Exchange platform for digital assets trading is ready to launch the first-ever leveraged cryptocurrency-settled derivative contract for the GRAM token on 12 March.
This is a significant step towards the liquidity of GRAM, as Telegram TON project investors will be able to trade the derivative contracts before the GRAM tokens are actually issued.
The Telegram TON blockchain project has become one of the most successful ICOs of 2018, raising USD1.7 billion from private investors and leaving those who missed the token sale waiting for GRAM to enter the exchanges. The launch of the derivative contracts on the
Dmitri Rabin is to join the fixed income team of Jennison Associates as a managing director and portfolio manager, effective 12 March 2019.
Rabin (pictured), brings 18 years of investment experience to the role, specialising in mortgages and structured finance.
Rabin played an important part in the US Treasury’s effort to reform the residential mortgage-backed securities market after the 2007-2008 financial crisis, co-authoring a framework to improve investor protections in structured finance documents and was also the co-chair of the Mortgage Securitization Council for the Association of Institutional Investors. He will work in Jennison’s Boston office and report to
Exactpro, a provider of quality assurance (QA) services for market infrastructures, has completed a review of testing processes for the NextGen Post Trade Programme that is underway at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) and delivered a set of test strategy recommendations for Phase 1 of the programme.
The NextGen Post Trade Programme will help strengthen HKEX’s competitive advantages amid a rapidly changing business, technology and regulatory environment. With this programme, HKEX is undertaking a comprehensive upgrade of its post-trade infrastructure across all of its business processes and systems. The revitalisation of HKEX post-trade infrastructure is a multi-year programme
KRM22, a technology and software investment company with a focus on risk management in capital markets, has launched the Enterprise Risk Cockpit, a real-time enterprise risk management application for capital markets firms.
The Enterprise Risk Cockpit allows firms to eliminate cumbersome spreadsheets, improving data accuracy and provides actionable insights on enterprise risk.
Enterprise risk management typically requires high manual processing, making it challenging for firms to obtain a clear real-time view of events and their impact. By automating these time-consuming activities firms can gain actionable insights on risk, allowing better informed decision making.
KRM22 is launching the Enterprise
The exhausting momentum of the year-to-date rally, ECB’s downward revisions of its economic forecasts and frictions in US-China trade negotiations sent markets in the red this week, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team.
Hedge Funds were resilient, due to top-down strategies, which are defensively positioned in aggregate. They made up for the losses of Merger strategies’ severely hit by the abrupt turn in the Bristol-Myers-Celgene deal spread.
Lyxor writes: “Bristol-Myers announced the acquisition of Celgene for a record of USD89bn early January, with a 50 per cent record premium (likely aiming to avoid
Amun AG, a Swiss fintech aiming to facilitate access to crypto-asset investments, has completed its first funding round, bringing on board a number of experienced industry figures including Adam Draper, Founder of Boost VC, Graham Tuckwell, Founder of ETFS Capital, Greg Kidd, Co-Founder Hard Yaka, as well as four family offices.
Amun is a technology platform for creating crypto indices and issuing crypto products, in addition to listing, settling, and custody of physically-backed crypto products on public exchanges. Amun listed HODL, the world’s first physically backed ETP (exchange traded product) based on five leading cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, BTC Cash, XRP
Carillon Tower Advisers’ affiliate Raymond James Financial International has appointed Gerrit Van Gorp as Head of Sales/Continental Europe, and Kevin Lloyd as Head of UK/Ireland Wholesale Sales.
Lloyd and Van Gorp expand the capabilities in London of Carillon Tower Advisers, a global multi-boutique asset management firm.
The two strategic appointments strengthen the existing local sales presence for Carillon Tower Advisers and its ability to serve investors in the United Kingdom and Europe. Lloyd will be responsible for the UK and Ireland wholesale market, and Van Gorp will be responsible for sales in Continental Europe. They will report to Don Pepin, Head
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