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Qbera Capital has appointed Charlie Laughton-Scott as Chairman of the company, with effect from 1 November 2018.
Jean-Francois Lambert who has helped guide Qbera Capital since inception as Chairman is to become a non-executive board member to the company and will continue to remain as a key advisor.
Qbera Capital’s CEO and Founder Ali Shafqat, says: “As the founding Chairman of the group Jean-Francois’ contribution has been key in helping us build our business into the fast-growing Asset Manager & Advisory Business that it is today. We have been immensely lucky to have been chaired by Jean-Francois for
The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index decreased to 84.4 in October, down 3.4 points from September’s revised reading of 87.8.
Confidence among European investors waned, with the European ICI decreasing from 100.2 to 90.9. The North American ICI declined by 2.6 points to 81.8. Meanwhile, the Asia ICI dropped 0.3 points to 99.6.
The Investor Confidence Index was developed by Kenneth Froot (pictured), 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 investors.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) will conduct a secondary market auction for European emission allowances (EUAs) on behalf of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of Latvia.
The auction is scheduled for 16 November 2018 with the bidding window being open from 09:00 to 11:00 (CET). The auction volume amounts to 3,126,500 EUAs. This is the first auction on behalf of a public auctioneer on the EEX secondary market which means that the certificates have already been allocated to the market, but have not been used for compliance before.
Peter Reitz (pictured), CEO of EEX, comments: “We
Viewing investment opportunities through a credit lens while adopting both a special situations approach, often involving equities, and a macro approach approach, using a variety of macro instruments, Westfield Investment employs a highly-differentiated strategy to capture idiosyncratic alpha. Founder, Ren Gao explains all…
Former Goldman MD Gao (pictured) founded the credit hedge fund in 2015 and has enjoyed strong performance since then – 50 per cent in 2016; 10.8 per cent in 2017 and 20.37 per cent in 2018 so far.
He has recently hired ex-Saba COO Ken Weiller, and has built a new infrastructure, with the aim of increasing
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) increased volumes on its power derivatives markets by 30 per cent in October to 339.3 TWh (October 2017: 261,3 TWh). In particular a four-fold increase in Phelix-DE Futures to 204.4 TWh as well as power futures for Italy (60.9 TWh, +42 per cent) and Spain (9.1 TWh, +32 per cent) contributed to this development.
EEX recorded a positive trend also in the smaller markets: In power futures for Great Britain, at 125,070 MWh, EEX recorded the highest trading volume since the launch of these products. In the Dutch markets, volumes increased by 18 per cent
Neuberger Berman has broadened its alternative investment platform with the acquisition of specialist asset manager Cartesian Re, which, with its affiliate Iris Re, manages more than USD1 billion in assets under management (AUM) focussing on the insurance-linked strategies (ILS) asset class.
Cartesian Re was developed as a portfolio company of Cartesian Capital Group, which will work with Neuberger Berman to deliver ILS capabilities to clients globally. The addition of Cartesian Re illustrates Neuberger Berman’s continued focus on diversifying its alternative capabilities, particularly with strategies offering returns uncorrelated with financial markets. Cartesian Re will be renamed NB Insurance-Linked Strategies and its
CloudMargin, creator of a cloud-native collateral and margin management solution, has appointed Daniel Schwartz, a 20-year veteran of financial products, markets and technology leadership, as its Chief Information Officer (CIO).
Based in the New York office of the London-based company, Schwartz reports to CEO Steve Husk.
Schwartz has extensive experience in financial risk management, derivatives, trading, structuring, business strategy, technology and operations across a broad spectrum of fixed income and equity products, including at several of the world’s leading banks. He also founded two strategic technology consulting firms and served some of the largest Fortune 1000 companies. In the
Cobalt, a foreign exchange (FX) post-trade processing network based on shared infrastructure and high performance technology, has appointed FX specialist Anoushka Rayner as global head of sales and business development.
Rayner brings over 20 years of experience in the FX industry to Cobalt. She has held a number of high-profile roles, most recently as business manager and global FX sales specialist at Traiana. Prior to this she worked as sales director at smartTrade Technologies and as global head of FX option sales at FXCMPro, the institutional arm of Forex Capital Markets.
Rayner will be responsible for managing Cobalt’s commercial
Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, has launched its quantitative analytics platform QA Direct in the Cloud through Microsoft Azure.
The Cloud-based service means asset managers and hedge funds can get faster access to data for new quant initiatives and spend more time testing strategies, optimising portfolios and managing risk.
QA Direct offers a scalable platform to manage, maintain and integrate quantitative analysis and investment data. The platform delivers the largest repository of financial data along with quantitative alpha models and other third party content sets allowing customers to explore how their investment hypothesis performs
Robeco has appointed Ed Collinge as Global Head of Insurance Strategy. Collinge previously worked at Invesco, where he led the European Institutional Insurance team.
In this newly created position, Collinge (pictured), will work with Robeco’s client teams around the world on developing specific investment solutions for insurance clients. He will report to Christoph von Reiche, Head of Global Distribution & Marketing.
Prior to his position at Invesco, Collinge was a senior member of Global Insurance Solutions at JP Morgan Asset Management where he was responsible for insurance coverage for the UK, Ireland, the Nordics and South Africa. Previous roles
