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TradingScreen (TS), an all-asset class order and execution management system (OEMS), has enhanced its offering through a partnership with Imagine Software, which offers real-time portfolio, risk, and compliance management solutions.
“TradingScreen recognises the need to create seamless integrations and cultivate deeper partnerships to ultimately benefit trading desks faced with ever evolving regulatory and compliance demands,” says Varghese Thomas (pictured), TradingScreen Chief Operating and Strategy Officer. “As Imagine Software provides the definitive real-time solution to manage risk, maximise growth and comply with regulatory demands, TS clients with portfolio investment mandates on the Imagine platform will now benefit from our fully-integrated pre-trade
BTIG has opened a branch office in Stockholm, Sweden, the firm’s third office in Europe and its 18th location globally.
BTIG Limited opened its doors in London in 2008, and today provides services to institutional and corporate clients with offices in major financial centres throughout the US, and in Europe, Asia and Australia.
The new office will be managed by Tony Nilsson, Managing Director and Head of Scandinavian Sales Trading. Nilsson has more than 20 years of relevant industry experience across Europe. Prior to his move to Stockholm, he served as a senior member of BTIG’s Institutional Equity Sales
NUMERI Capital Management has launched a new alternative investment program – NUMERI Intraday I – which aims to provide institutional and retail investors with superior risk-adjusted returns, regardless of the direction of traditional markets.
Using proprietary intraday forecasting techniques developed and refined by the principals in live trading of their own accounts over the past decade, the program systematically exploits temporary mis-pricings in the equity and fixed income markets each day. As with any investment, there is a risk of loss trading the program.
Scott Andrews, co-founder and President of the firm, says: “The limitations of traditional portfolio diversification
Robeco has expanded Robeco Institutional Asset Management US (Robeco US), its US and Canadian business, with the addition of five senior sales and consultant relations professionals.
The news comes one year after Robeco US, best known for quantitative investing, sustainability investing, emerging markets, and credit investing, appointed Maureen L Beshar as Head of Robeco US and Canada. Since joining, Beshar has established Robeco US’s New York office and overseen Robeco US’s strategic business expansion in the US and Canadian markets, in addition to her managing and building relationships with investment consultants and plan sponsors.
Reporting to Beshar, the expanded
UCITS and AIFs recorded net sales of EUR28 billion in Q2 2018, a significant decrease on the EUR222 billion of sales seen in Q1, according to the latest European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) Quarterly Statistical Release for the European investment funds industry.
Multi-asset funds and other funds registered net inflows of EUR25 billion and EUR30 billion, respectively. Equity, bond and money market funds, meanwhile recorded net outflows of EUR0.3 billion, EUR7 billion and EUR19 billion, respectively.
UCITS registered net sales of EUR15 billion in Q2 2018, compared to EUR171 billion in Q1, with long-term UCITS (UCITS excluding money market funds)
Strata Fund Solutions (Strata), a fund service administrator for venture capital, private equity and other alternative asset managers and allocators, has closed a significant growth equity investment from FTV Capital.
Strata will continue investing in technology, product and client-centric service enhancements to deliver highly customised client solutions. Jared Broadbent, Darren Benson and Nathan Rees, Strata’s co-founders and managing partners, will continue their leadership of Strata and remain significant shareholders in the company. As part of the transaction, FTV Capital managing partner Brad Bernstein and partner Kyle Griswold will join the founders on the company’s board of directors. StepStone Group, a
Alternative investment fund (AIF) manager Olymp Capital has launched what it says is the first European investment fund to cover the entire blockchain and crypto asset ecosystem.
The fund will include blockchain-related private equity, initial coin offering (ICO) activity, and fund-of-fund activity centred on crypto hedge funds. The fund accepts investment both in fiat and cryptocurrencies (eg bitcoin, ether).
The Olymp Capital leadership team is led by experts in both traditional finance and in the blockchain ecosystem who have drawn on the best features of traditional venture capital, updated for the world of crypto investment. They include serial technology entrepreneur Christophe
By Vumi Dube and James Kattan (pictured), Directors, DMS Governance – As of 31 March 2018, there were 933 segregated portfolio companies (SPCs) out of 10,500 entities registered as mutual funds with the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. While this represents about 9 per cent of the list of registered mutual funds, it is worth noting that as of the same date there were many more segregated portfolios (SPs) linked to these SPCs.
The ability of each SP to follow a different strategy and to attract different investors from other SPs within the same SPC presents an opportunity for a more economic
By Conner Guidry – As interest in the markets for crypto currencies and digital assets continues to grow, some hedge funds and members of the buy side are venturing into this rapidly changing ecosystem. Black Square Capital, a Washington DC hedge fund investing exclusively in the crypto space, believes crypto investment strategies must adopt an element of creativity to stay competitive and remain safe from extreme volatility that has affected the industry in recent years.
According to Black Square portfolio manager Chris Yoo: “As of now, there is no right way to invest in the crypto space. There must be a certain element
Institutional investors are still looking for a way out of the interest rate trap while seeking to protect their allocation from market fluctuations and are increasingly opting for hedge funds when making investment decisions.
According to hedge fund database provider Eurekahedge, assets under management in the hedge fund industry have reached an all-time high of USD3.4 trillion. In 2017, USD31.7 billion was paid into UCITS and offshore funds globally, and in the first half of the current year this figure grew by a further USD5 billion net.
Marcus Storr, Head of Hedge Funds at FERI, says: “Many pension
