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By JD David, Myler Capital – Football fans are painfully aware that the amount of actual play time in a three-plus hour NFL game is roughly just 11 minutes, according to a (slightly dated) WSJ article. Put another way, it’s two hours and 49 minutes of watching something other than football.
Anyone that has ever attempted to raise a fund likely has experienced something very similar. A lot of preparation, a lot of travel, a lot of follow-up and a whole lot of wasted time.
But what is much less apparent is why fundraising involves so much wasted time.
I’m not talking about the
StatPro Group, a provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has added “Personal Configurable Dashboards” to StatPro Revolution in its March release.
This powerful new feature, driven by client demand allows clients to create personalised analysis screens to show only and exactly what each user wants to see.
Available to all clients, Personal Dashboards gives users total flexibility and control with multiple screen layouts and visual analysis components. Clients can create custom menus and deploy new dashboards instantly to defined user roles allowing for access control to the individual user level.
Axioma has appointed Jason Connelly (pictured), as Managing Director, Business Strategy and Execution. He was previously Global Head of Analytics Managed Services at MSCI, Inc.
“Jason will focus on strategic efforts to identify, target and develop market opportunities for Axioma,” says Sebastian Ceria, Chief Executive Officer of Axioma. “Gaining a better understanding of the markets and segments we serve – and precisely matching the needs of those markets and segments to Axioma’s product capabilities and functionality – is key to our ability to drive sales efficiently.”
On the execution side, Connelly will collaborate with Marketing, Specialists and Sales to
Highvern’s funds team is to be the first administrator in Jersey to sign up with private capital software Altareturn. The move comes just a matter of months after Highvern launched its funds business.
“The majority of the fund administration market relies on systems that were created over 20 years ago, most of which treat accounting as a secondary component,” says James Bryant (pictured), Head of Operations. “We see AltaReturn as the next generation of administration systems and it offers a completely new level of functionality around transparency and investor reporting. This demonstrates our commitment to invest in the latest technology.”
QuantHouse, an independent provider of end-to-end high-performance market data and trading through API-based technologies, has reported strong double-digit revenue growth since its 2017 buyback from S&P.
Throughout 2017, QuantHouse has launched many strategic initiatives to accelerate growth including: the launch of an algo-trading stress testing solution; a UTC time source service in partnership with NPL; direct API access to Systematic Internalisers such as Sun Trading, Virtu Financial and Jane Street.
The company has also launched the QuantHouse qh API Ecosystem, which is designed to accelerate the adoption of multi-asset class API-based solutions including value added analytics, automated trading tools, AI
AW Jones Advisors has launched AW Jones Private Advisors, a boutique investment advisor that offers wealth management services on an open-architecture investment platform with a specialisation in alternative investments.
AW Jones Private Advisors is led by Robert L Burch, Chief Investment Officer of AW Jones Company, one of the earliest multi-manager funds with a 33-year track record; and Thomas J Haug, President. They have appointed Avi J Rosenblatt, CPA as CFO and CCO, and David D Leveroni, formerly responsible for investment due diligence at alternative asset management firm Permal Group, as Head of Investment Research.
Burch, says: “We expect
SEI has formed a strategic partnership with Quovo, a provider of account aggregation and data analytics for finance, to implement data-aggregation applications that will provide real-time account information for financial intermediaries and end-investors.
“Quovo is a well-respected provider of account aggregation in the financial services industry, and their way of thinking aligns with ours – empowering firms through technology,” says Ryan Hicke, Chief Information Officer at SEI. “The wealth management industry is rapidly evolving, and the continuous development and enhancement of technology are catalysts for that change. APIs are one component of SEI’s enterprise strategy to harness next-generation technologies and
AlphaCore Capital, a La Jolla-based wealth management firm, has launched factorE, a wealthtech tool powered by machine learning, designed to uncover the risks and exposures of multi-asset portfolios through visual simulations on a single interface.
AlphaCore designed factorE to help advisors, portfolio managers and analysts better understand the factors impacting today’s diverse portfolios.
“Our team at AlphaCore searched for a solution to effectively manage complex portfolios that may hold a combination of mutual funds, ETFs, stocks, commodities, and alternative investments,” says Dick Pfister (pictured), CEO and Founder of AlphaCore. “When we couldn’t find one, we partnered with a team
Ripjar, a company that enables institutions to counter money laundering, cybercrime and other security threats, has appointed former GCHQ Director Sir Iain Lobban KCMG CB as a Senior Advisor.
Lobban will be providing strategic advice as Ripjar increase the pace and scale of its global operations in the highly competitive cyber security and anti-money-laundering sectors.
Lobban served at GCHQ – the UK Government Communications Headquarters – for over 30 years, becoming Director in 2008, after having previously served as Director General for Operations from 2004. As Director of Britain’s national signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance capability, he worked
Neudata has officially launched its alternative data use-case research platform designed for use by investment managers seeking a competitive edge. This new use-case research capability is available as an enhanced feature of the Neudata Scout digital data intelligence platform.
“Our new alternative data use-case research tool encompasses any material which demonstrates how an alternative dataset is used in investment management toward a particular strategy, or investable index investment theme, or specific analysis purpose,” says Rado Lipuš (pictured), CFA, Founder and CEO of Neudata. “Use-case research provides clear evidence – such as through backtesting or modelling – as to how a
