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Latitude Investment Management, the investment boutique founded by Freddie Lait in 2016, has appointed Alex Robins as Head of Institutional Clients.
Robins (pictured), brings 18 years of industry experience to the firm. Prior to joining Latitude Investment Management, he was Senior Product Manager at Sarasin & Partners LLP, and before this he spent 13 years at JP Morgan Asset Management as a Client Portfolio Manager.
The appointment follows a successful 2017 for Latitude Investment Management. Since the firm’s inception in November 2016 the Horizon Fund has returned 11 per cent, a compound return of 8 per cent, resulting in
Columbia Threadneedle Investments has launched a new, global absolute return credit strategy – the Threadneedle (Lux) Global Investment Grade Credit Opportunities Fund (the Fund).
The Fund will emulate the investment approach taken in the successful Threadneedle Credit Opportunities Fund. The Fund’s managers are Alasdair Ross and Ryan Staszewski. Ross is the Head of Investment Grade Credit EMEA, and one of the team of portfolio managers responsible for the Threadneedle Credit Opportunities Fund. Staszewski is a Senior Investment Grade Portfolio Manager based in London and one of the lead managers of Columbia Threadneedle’s UK and European Strategic bond portfolios.
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Options, a provider of global market data and colocation services for trading firms, has deployed real-time multicast gap detection as part of its Managed Colocation offering.
The TradeVision platform from Ixia, a Keysight Business, will initially be integrated with Options Managed Colocation infrastructure across the US, with expansion across European venues throughout H2 2018.
Launched November 2017, TradeVision is the first market data monitoring platform to deliver a unique combination of market feed health monitoring and advanced network visibility with pre-programmed support for hundreds of trading venues. It provides high accuracy gap detection, feed and channel health and statistics,
Cboe Global Markets’ Cboe DataShop has added Wall Street Horizon’s corporate event data to its range of offerings, aimed at providing customers with a more robust data offering and the tools to better leverage corporate event intelligence.
Cboe DataShop customers now have access to Wall Street Horizon’s more than 25 corporate event types, including earnings dates, conference calls, dividend dates and investor conferences.
“Investors are constantly searching for ways to optimise the timing of their trading decisions, and we are seeing an increasing demand for information around corporate events and alternative data,” says Catherine Clay, Vice President and Global Head
The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index increased to 111.9, up 4.8 points from February’s revised reading of 107.1.
Investors across all regions expressed an improved appetite for risk, with the North American ICI rising by 5.8 points to 109.8, the European ICI increasing by 1.6 points to 102.1, and the Asian ICI increasing by 1.3 points to 109.6.
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
Campbell Lutyens, an alternative asset adviser, is opening offices in Chicago and Los Angeles, to support the growth in demand for its fund placement and secondaries advisory businesses across North America.
The firm now has five offices globally, with three in the US, including New York.
Campbell Lutyens’ US-based team has grown to 30 people and is currently advising on USD14.5 billion of transactions for US clients. The firm has raised USD16 billion in capital from North American LPs in the past three years, which represents over 40 per cent of the total commitments it has raised globally across
CMC Markets Institutional, a provider of liquidity and white label trading solutions, has partnered with oneZero Financial Systems.
The collaboration enables CMC Markets to disseminate its high-quality, multi-asset liquidity feed to a wider range of accredited counterparties, using a seamless automated solution for market connectivity and price distribution.
More than 150 banks, brokerages and hedge funds are already connected to oneZero’s EcoSystem, using the company’s proprietary software and infrastructure. This deployment means that CMC Markets’ liquidity can now be accessed by this community at discounted rates. CMC Markets is currently one of the only providers on the oneZero EcoSystem
Another year and, I’m pleased to say, another fantastic Global Hedgeweek Awards event. There was a lot to be cheerful about for this year’s winners, who once again demonstrated that creativity and innovation, not to mention a commitment to excellence, are alive and kicking in the hedge fund industry.
More than that, the sense of optimism emanated from what was, finally, a good year for performance. The industry returned a healthy 11.41 per cent and attracted net new inflows of USD49.5 billion to take total industry AUM to USD3.55 trillion.
Multi-strategy funds proved to be the most popular, according to
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and its private credit affiliate, the Alternative Credit Council (ACC), have published new guidance for fund managers in valuing their investments.
The new AIMA Guide to Sound Practices for the Valuation of Investments contains a series of recommendations regarding valuation governance, transparency, procedures, processes and systems and sources, models and methodology.
A number of recommendations from the guide’s previous edition in 2013 have been updated to reflect the evolving valuation process and changes in the regulatory environment, including the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD).
Additionally, the industry has become more diversified
Alter Domus, a provider of Fund and Corporate Services to alternative investment managers, has completed the acquisition of Cortland Capital Market Services (Cortland) in the US.
Headquartered in Chicago and with offices in New York, London, Los Angeles, Austin, Indianapolis, and China, Cortland is a leading independent investment servicing company providing third-party fund administration and middle and back-office outsourcing to financial institutions, including alternative investment managers, real estate private equity firms and credit funds. It currently has over USD200 billion of assets under administration.
The firm was founded in 2008 by Doug Hart CEO, Russ Goldenberg, Tim Houghton and
