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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
Fair Oaks Capital was launched in 2013 by senior professionals previously at GSO Capital Partners and Apollo Global Management. It characterises itself as a research-driven investment manager with a focus on fundamental corporate credit analysis.
“Our focus is to identify the highest conviction strategies in credit markets at any point in time for our liquid and long-term funds. We aim to offer investors differentiated opportunities which offer attractive risk-adjusted returns and low correlation with their more traditional positions,” explains Miguel Ramos, Partner.
Fair Oaks Capital’s first fund was launched in June 2014 as a listed, closed-ended vehicle which invests in
For over 30 years, Align has been building intelligent technology infrastructures, networks and private clouds, in various industries throughout the world. Over that time, much has changed in the industry as technology advances have re-shaped and re-imagined what is capable in the world of fund investing. Speaking with Hedgeweek, Vinod Paul, Chief Operating Officer of Align, refers to two key milestones in 2017:
• The company expanded its cybersecurity consulting practice with the launch of Align Cybersecurity, the first comprehensive risk management solution in the world. Our unique suite of services encompasses solutions around technology, compliance, risk management and security awareness
Sydney-based Invast Global is a subsidiary of Japanese listed Invast Securities Co Ltd. Employing a prime-of-prime model, Invast leads the industry in the provision of multi-asset high-quality, non-bank Prime Services. It provides credit intermediation, access to liquidity (both OTC and exchange) and comprehensive trading platforms/API connectivity options.
With a client base of brokerages and hedge funds spanning the globe, the company has experienced impressive growth in its prime services offering, which gives institutional clients collateralised access to premium liquidity in OTC FX, Metals and Energy products, as well as direct connectivity to over 30 global exchanges and OTC venues.
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