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TORA, a provider of a cloud-based order and execution management systems, has launched its new TORA Reporting solution, giving asset managers the ability to see and report on their trading operations anytime, anywhere.
TORA Reporting lets users perform calculations on any data source and create reports with clear visualisations and charts. The new solution is integrated into the TORA platform and can be accessed via the web or on a mobile device, giving users an immediate view into their trading operations.
Asset managers are under tremendous pressure today to meet increased transparency, reporting and best execution requirements demanded by
MJ Hudson has hired Sean Scott to help MJ Hudson on its mission to provide a single, comprehensive solution for its clients operating within asset management.
Scott (pictured), joins as Partner (Hedge Fund practice). Sean brings with him a wealth of investment funds experience having worked in the industry for over 15 years.
Scott has practiced both on and off shore in multiple global jurisdictions. In addition to his funds formation expertise, he has extensive experience of advising and crisis managing distressed funds. He is recognised by both Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for his legal and commercial
Lombard Odier Investment Managers (Lombard Odier IM) has appointed Arnaud Langlois to launch a global equity long/short investment strategy with a sustainability focus.
Arnaud Langlois and Cyrus Azarmgin, who have run the strategy together for seven years, join Lombard Odier IM as Portfolio Manager and Senior Analyst respectively. The strategy will launch in Q2 2018 with USD100m in committed capital.
Jean-Pascal Porcherot (pictured), CEO of Lombard Odier IM’s 1798 Alternative Platform, says: “There is high demand for long-short funds and strategies which incorporate responsible investment. This is an important milestone in strengthening our alternatives platform and reinforces Lombard Odier IM’s commitment to
QuantHouse, the independent global provider of end-to-end high performance market data and trading through API based technologies, had added CMC Markets to its qh API Ecosystem.
CMC Markets’ Institutional division offers a multi-asset product range (including Equities, Equity indices, FX & Commodity derivatives etc) to banks, hedge funds and brokerages who want wholesale access to the company’s highly regarded technology via CMC’s Direct API, Prime API and various Front end platforms.
Access to CMC Markets’ trading platform will be available from QuantHouse’s qh API Ecosystem. By joining the qh API Ecosystem, financial firms as well as QuantHouse’s clients will have easy, efficient
Volatility finally roared back to abnormally tame markets, but most institutional investors were already bracing for impact; their efforts to diversify and build durable portfolios should now pay off, according to new survey findings released by Natixis Investment Managers.
Seventy-eight per cent of institutional investors expected stock market volatility to spike in 2018, and they are making opportunistic allocations to active management and alternative investments in order to meet average long-term return assumptions of 7.2 per cent this year.
That’s according to a new survey by Natixis Investments Managers’ Centre for Investor Insight of 500 institutional investors around the
Thomson Reuters and DealVector have partnered to integrate access to certain DealVector identity-protected messaging capabilities with Thomson Reuters Loan Pricing Corporation (LPC) desktop products.
The integration will enable LPC clients viewing CLO and loan data to connect to holders of those specific assets.
Thomson Reuters LPC is a provider of information on the syndicated loan and CLO markets. DealVector is the fixed income electronic asset registry which allows market participants to source liquidity, communicate, and exercise governance rights by connecting directly to other market players affiliated with a specific bond, loan, or other financial asset.
In addition to
Reed Smith has appointed fund finance partner Bronwen Jones to the firm’s Financial Industry Group in London.
Jones (pictured), joins from Macfarlanes, where she led the investment fund finance group and previously served as the firm’s head of finance. As a key player in the funds finance market in London, Jones brings a wealth of experience at a key moment of growth for Reed Smith’s funds finance practice.
Ranked Band One in the 2017 Chambers UK Directory for Banking & Finance, Jones represents banks, other financial institutions, sponsors, general partners and fund managers on a range of fund finance
Hedge funds recovered strongly last week from the recent stock selloff, with two exceptions: fixed income funds, flat this week; and neutral equity funds, still suffering from sector and factor rotations.
The risk-on sentiment though broadly supported hedge funds last week, with the Lyxor Hedge Fund Index up 1.4 per cent.
The more directional strategies outperformed. The L/S Equity variable bias index was up 1.2 per cent, fuelled by solid returns from Emerging and the highest beta- driven funds.
Special Situations funds outperformed from several of their hard-catalyst stocks delivering strong earnings. Merger Arbitrage thrived from their M&A
The VIX is not broken says Taylor Lukof of ABR Dynamic Funds. “There was an opportunity for the VIX to break on the 5th of February and here we are two weeks later and the VIX is at 18, down from 50, the markets are back up and the world is fine.
“A lot of people think that the market for VIX products could take down the entire equity market but while it is larger than when it launched, it is still relatively small when compared to the equity market – the tail is not wagging the dog.”
However, Lukof
NEX has partnered with China Foreign Exchange TradeSystem (CFETS), China’s interbank market trading platform and infrastructure provider, to launch CFETS FX2017 (FX2017), a new trading platform for the Chinese foreign exchange (FX) market.
Having selected NEX to deliver the underlying technology for the new services in June 2016, CFETS launched the first phase of FX2017 with a central limit order book (CLOB) platform for spot onshore Chinese renminbi (CNY) on 4 December 2017. An anonymous execution capability for the Chinese market, market participants will have access to a central pool of liquidity and a public reference point for spot CNY pricing.
