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Societe Generale Securities Services (SGSS) and Addventa have agreed a partnership to launch a service for automated drafting of portfolio management commentaries based on artificial intelligence solutions.
Management companies, who are SGSS clients, will benefit from an automated and instant drafting of performance commentaries for their financial investment portfolios which cover a given time period, selected by the client, in different languages, in a clear and consistent style.
This service relies on figures produced by Analytics & Reporting by SGSS, the performance and risk analysis reporting tool of SGSS, and also on Addventa’s artificial intelligence solutions. It meets the
SS&C Technologies, a provider of financial services software and software-enabled services, has appointed Colin Haggart as Country Head for Luxembourg.
Haggart (pictured), has more than 20 years of experience within the financial services sector and has been Head of Fund Accounting in Luxembourg since early 2017.
Prior to joining SS&C, Haggart worked with EY for nine years in Luxembourg and a further 10 years in the UK. He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and has extensive experience of Luxembourg and UK investment funds including UCITS, hedge funds, funds of hedge funds and management
MackeyRMS, a provider of highly automated and ultra-mobile research management software to the investment industry, has launched a raft of enhancements to its platform including new integrations, updated social capabilities and advanced analytics for its clients across the hedge fund and asset management sectors.
MackeyRMS is continuously evolving its platform in order to integrate with new and emerging devices and applications. Just added integrations include Box and OneDrive, enabling clients to seamlessly sync stored files to the firm’s custom RMS, as well as Slack, the messaging and collaboration tool where investment managers can now receive real-time, content-rich RMS alerts.
The Foxhill Opportunity Fund has been named as the Best Event Driven Distressed Fund at the Hedgeweek USA Awards 2018 for the second time in four years.
The Awards, which celebrate the achievements of firms that contributed to another transformative year for the alternative asset management sector, were determined by the votes of Hedgeweek’s subscriber base, which includes institutional investors, wealth managers, fund managers, and other industry professionals. Established in 2003, Hedgeweek is the leading digital publisher covering all facets of the global hedge fund industry.
“We are pleased to be recognised again by the hedge fund community for
BlackRock has launched the BlackRock Strategic Funds (BSF) UK Emerging Companies Absolute Return Fund (the Fund), a long-short equity strategy focussing on opportunities created by emerging companies.
These include small, mid and large capitalisation companies that are at the early stage of their life cycle and/or expected to experience significant growth. The fund also has the remit to invest in international companies, increasing its addressable market.
The fund expands BlackRock’s High Conviction Alpha suite of active equity funds, which provides absolute return exposures to clients seeking pure alpha returns with low correlation to market indexes. This range forms part
BB&T Securities has selected CAIS to bolster its range of alternative investment offerings and can now offer access to hedge funds, private equity and debt, real estate and other non-traditional investment strategies to its financial advisers.
“BB&T Securities’s adoption of CAIS demonstrates our platform’s flexibility to serve wealth management firms of all sizes,” says Brad Walker, Managing Director at CAIS. “With a cumulative buying power of USD1 trillion, the CAIS advisor-network remains the platform of choice for alternative investment managers seeking access to the fragmented US wealth management channel.”
CAIS is an open-architecture alternative investment product platform offering wealth
Caspian now has 15 global institutions live on its crypto asset management platform and is currently implementing 20 more. The company expects to have 50 clients on the platform by the end of the year.
The live clients include Techemy, Blockstars, OSL and Galaxy Digital.
Caspian’s aim is to equip institutional investors with the ‘high-quality and comprehensive trading tools that are already available to players in the legacy financial system’ – supporting a full stack of OEMS, PMS and RMS. At its core, it says it aims to bring a level of sophistication to a multi-billion dollar market that suffers from
CryptoCompare, the global cryptocurrency market data provider, has today published the Cryptoasset Taxonomy Report, which provides retail and institutional investors, regulators and the industry as a whole with an independent classification of crypto assets, based on the depth, breadth and scope of CryptoCompare’s global datasets.
More than 1,000 different crypto assets have emerged in the last year alone. Each of these crypto assets can be categorised and understood using numerous frameworks. There is a clear requirement for a unified approach on how to categorise these assets, to make well-informed investment decisions.
In line with CryptoCompare’s rigorous data standards, the
DWS Group and Tikehau Capital have agreed to enter into a strategic alliance, deepening their relationship following Tikehau’s participation in the initial public offering of DWS in March 2018. With the agreement, the two asset managers aim to identify and develop various business opportunities.
“This is an important alliance aligned fully to our ambition to expand our presence further in the Alternatives asset class, an area where we see sharply increasing interest from clients,” says Nicolas Moreau, CEO and Chairman of the Executive Board of DWS Group. “We look forward to working closely with Tikehau Capital to the benefit of
Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs, delivered a forceful call for confidence in the UK post-Brexit at an event to mark the arrival in London of one of America’s largest accountancy and advisory firms.
Littlewood welcomed EisnerAmper’s arrival in London as a prime example of the possibilities for trans-Atlantic business engagement in a post-Brexit environment, suggesting that the UK, with commitment and resolve, might even look forward to matching the 4 per cent growth rate of America today. Littlewood was addressing an invited audience of 250 business leaders from across the spectrum of financial services and
