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Sabre Fund Management is one of London’s most well established hedge fund managers, having launched its flagship market neutral Sabre Style Arbitrage Fund in 2002 and the newer Dynamic Equity Strategy in 2013. The firm is steered by Melissa Hill, CEO, who joined the firm in 1996.
Leading the investment process is Dan Jelicic. Dan joined Sabre in 2002 to manage the Style Arbitrage Fund and today he drives the investment process utilised in Sabre’s Style strategies.
Like many statistical arbitrage funds, Sabre Style Arbitrage is market agnostic.
The Sabre Style Arbitrage Fund was launched in August 2002. This systematic fund
Lawyers from Carey Olsen’s corporate and finance practice in the Cayman Islands have advised 99, the Brazilian ride-sharing application and Uber competitor, on its sale to China’s Didi Chuxing.
RFA (Richard Fleischman & Associates), a next-gen managed IT services provider for the financial industry, has named Richard Muckle as RFA’s Head of Client Development for its EMEA Headquarter.
In his role, Muckle (pictured) will manage and guide RFA’s European markets alongside RFA’s growing EMEA team. Muckle will advise and provide support for clients to ensure they are able to implement their vision and realise intended outcomes.
“Richard is an accomplished professional with vast experience in this market – he knows the right touch for our customers and how best to help them secure their organisations and help them scale
Hedge Invest SGR, an independent asset manager, specialised in alternative investments, has broadened its range of UCITS funds with the launch of HI QuantWave, a systematic quantitative fund with daily liquidity.
The fund aims to generating alpha regardless of market conditions, through an innovative proprietary system of Artificial Intelligence (AI), based also on the analysis of Big Data coming from sources such as Twitter.
The strategy – a multi-strategy and multi-asset one – with an annual performance target of 10-15 per cent net of fees and a volatility target of 10-12 per cent, seizes on the potential offered by
By Eze Castle Integration – Times have changed. There is little doubt that the alternate investment industry has evolved in recent years with the rise of new regulations, the wide spread adoption of cloud services and deep focus on cybersecurity risks.
But what effect do these changes have for the person responsible for technology at a hedge fund, private equity or investment firm? As a Chief Technology Officer (or comparable role: Director of IT, Chief Information Officer, etc.), one has historically been responsible for day-to-day IT functions and routine technology refreshes. But as the industry has experienced rapid change over
By Mary Beth Hamilton, Eze Castle Integration – Hedge fund assets have hit record highs in each of the five past quarters, to some $3.2 trillion, and will grow by 5.5% over the next 12 months, according to Don Steinbrugge, head of Agecroft Partners. With this performance and 2018 well started, new hedge funds are looking to launch.
Technology is just one of the many areas to consider when starting a hedge fund. To help jump start the process, below is a list of some commonly asked questions we receive.
Where do I start in creating a technology budget for my hedge
big xyt, an independent provider of high-volume, smart data and analytics capabilities, has added enhanced functionality on its Liquidity Cockpit dashboard, designed to provide greater transparency on over-the-counter (OTC) equities activity, including Systematic Internaliser (SI) transactions.
The latest functionality, called ‘Liquidity Type’, has been developed in response to a strong desire among practitioners for the identification of addressable activity within OTC and SI trade reports. It has become apparent that a high proportion of activity labelled as SI is non-addressable, such as technical trades. This is also evidence that SI transactions are being reported twice, as participants continue to become
GridGain Systems, a provider of enterprise-grade in-memory computing solutions based on Apache Ignite, has launched GridGain Professional Edition 2.4, a fully supported version of Apache Ignite 2.4.
GridGain Professional Edition 2.4 now includes a Continuous Learning Framework, which includes machine learning and a multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network that enable companies to run machine and deep learning algorithms against their petabyte-scale operational datasets in real-time. Companies can now build and continuously update models at in-memory speeds and with massive horizontal scalability. GridGain Professional Edition 2.4 also enhances the performance of Apache® Spark by introducing an API for Apache Spark DataFrames, adding
FlexTrade has integrated Kensho Technologies pre-trade analytics solution into the FlexTRADER EMS, which provides a detailed, real-time event feed to assist a trader’s decision-making process when executing a trade.
“This integration with Kensho brings a unique level of ‘market context’ to the FlexTRADER blotter,” says Andy Mahoney (pictured), Head of Sales at FlexTrade UK. “By including Kensho data in pre-trade and real-time analysis, we ensure that traders will receive a more meaningful picture of performance.”
Kensho captures events to surface company-specific key developments, such as product launches, mergers and acquisitions or corporate announcements. These events come from reputable news outlets
Shield Financial Compliance (Shield FC) has launched a new version of its data management platform for capturing, archiving, analysing and investigating electronic communication (eComms) to meet the growing record-keeping, data governance and best execution requirements of financial firms.
MiFID II, GDPR, MAR, Dodd Frank and FINRA require financial institutions to capture, protect and archive every single interaction for a prescribed period (five-seven). In the event of an investigation, firms need to perform trade reconstruction of a complete omni-channel communication chain in a timely manner (three-five days). Meeting these requirements can be challenging due to widespread adoption of new communication technologies
