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Tokyo-based boutique investment manager Misaki Capital has appointed Northern Trust to provide custody and foreign exchange services to its USD600 million, Cayman-domiciled, Misaki Engagement Master Fund.
“We appointed Northern Trust based on their established reputation as a leading global custodian and administrator with a worldwide presence and ability to bring us advanced global technology solutions,” says Masaki Gotoh, Chief Investment officer at Misaki Capital. “Their ability to not only offer a variety of customizable solutions but support us as we evolve are key factors in their appointment.”
Northern Trust supports clients with a comprehensive suite of asset servicing solutions
Cowen’s prime services division, Cowen Prime Services, has been named Best North American Prime Broker at the Hedgeweek USA Awards 2018.
The award is based on a peer review system and decided by a poll of Hedgeweek’s readers that include institutional and high net worth investors, hedge fund managers, and other industry professionals such as fund administrators, prime brokers, law firms, custodians, and advisers.
Jack D Seibald (pictured), Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Prime Brokerage and Outsourced Trading, says: “We are honoured to have been selected as the Best North American Prime Broker and are grateful to
After a solid first quarter, CMC Markets says its second quarter (1 July-25 September) has been impacted by a sustained period of low market volatility and range bound markets towards the end of the traditional UK summer period, in addition to an expected decrease in overall client trading activity following regulatory change.
As a result, net operating income for 2019 is expected to be below previous guidance, with the overall impact on profitability partially mitigated by tight cost control. Following the summer period, the Group has seen some improvement in client activity levels.
The implementation of the ESMA
Louis Dreyfus Company Holdings has appointed a new Chief Executive Officer, Ian McIntosh (pictured), who is promoted from his current position of Chief Strategy Officer, effective immediately.
The move follows the resignation of Gonzalo Ramírez Martiarena as Chief Executive Officer, after 13 years with the company, in order to pursue other opportunities.
“I take the opportunity to thank Gonzalo for his contribution to the company, in particular as CEO”, says Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of LDCH. “Over that three-year cycle, he has successfully fulfilled his mandate of putting the Group in its current solid financial position
VTFinTech, a provider of portfolio management and research evaluation services, has partnered with Alphametry to provide its Parity One based Research Evaluation technology on the Alphametry research platform.
Available now, the partnership offers asset managers a quantitative way of assessing and evaluating their research providers and content. It will enable data-driven purchase decisions so that buy-side managers can regain access to the research they need under the unbundling requirements of MiFID II regulation. It also offers valuable insights into own research for the providers.
Alphametry, based in Paris, is a research management and discovery platform for investment professionals. Through
BSO has become the first global network provider to offer direct connectivity to the India INX International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), enabling foreign investors to access the Indian market.
The IFSC is located in the Gujarat International Finance Tec-City (GIFT City) and, with the support of BSO, is aiming to attract the international financial community by providing domestic and offshore traders equal access to the wider global markets. Via the purpose-built trading destination for global traders, participants will benefit from a more level playing field and state-of-the-art connectivity into the country.
BSO has expanded its service into India INX
Monroe Capital has appointed Stewart Hanlon as Managing Director in its San Francisco office. He will co-lead the firm’s technology vertical alongside Mark Solovy.
“We are very excited to add Stewart to the Monroe Capital originations team,” says Tom Aronson, Managing Director & Head of Originations of Monroe Capital. “Stewart has an accomplished career of over seven years providing financing solutions to middle-market companies and brings with him many great relationships and a wide range of experience across the technology industry.”
“He will help us continue to grow our robust direct origination platform that we have built throughout the
Despite a lot of bluff and bluster and gnashing of tweets, US President Donald Trump was unable to provoke a spike in OPEC oil supply at OPEC’s Algiers meeting over the weekend, says Richard Robinson, manager of the Ashburton Global Energy Fund…
OPEC’s power does not rest in the oil it produces, but rather in the oil it does not produce. Without spare capacity, OPEC is relatively impotent in relation to preventing rising prices.
Following four years of collapsing international capital spend, Trump’s removal of the world’s fifth largest oil producer, Iran, from the market – with sanctions to be
Greenberg Traurig has expanded its Corporate and Investment Funds practices with the addition of Petros (Peter) L Tsirigotis as shareholder in its Washington, DC and New York City offices.
Tsirigotis joins from Stradley Ronon, where he was co-chair of the firm’s Private Investment Funds Practice. Before that, he served as senior vice president at Brown Brothers Harriman & Company, where he led the investment management funds risks, operations, and governance group.
Tsirigotis advises financial institutions, asset managers, investment advisers, and institutional investors, helping them to develop and maintain financial products while navigating the regulatory landscape. He has served in
Boutique asset manager Unigestion has strengthened its cross-asset solutions team with the recent appointments of Salman Baig and Joshua Seager as investment managers.
Baig joined Unigestion earlier this year from Bridgewater Associates, where he was an Investment Associate & Engineer focussing on fundamental macroeconomic research, portfolio construction and risk management. Prior to Bridgewater, he was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the mathematics department at the University of Washington and a member of the Research Team at the Institute for Defense Analyses in the US. Baig holds a Bachelors’ in Mathematics and a Masters in Finance from Princeton University and a PhD
