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eFront, a financial software and solutions provider for the alternative investments space, has launched eFront Insight which digitalises data exchanges between General Partners and Limited Partners, and boosts analytics and insight generation.
eFront Insight combines a GP data portal with industry benchmarks and third-party data, resulting in an advanced and sophisticated analytical platform with best-in-class user experience, adept at generating unique insights. eFront Insight is available for both Limited Partners and General Partners.
eFront Insight GP enables General Partners to streamline data reporting and fundraising. eFront Insight LP provides Limited Partners access to reliable investment and benchmark data and
UMB Fund Services has been named as a sponsor of the Hedge Fund Association’s (HFA) global Thought Leadership Council.
“As a long-term administrator in the alternative investments space, we are excited to further our commitment to the industry through sponsorship of the HFA Thought Leadership Council,” says Maureen Quill, president of UMB Fund Services. “We believe the work that HFA does to advance the hedge fund industry through education and transparency is beneficial not only to those in the alternative investments industry, but investors as a whole.”
“The HFA serves its members by producing top-level member networking and educational
A new report entitled ‘Alternative Investments 3.0 – digitize or jeopardize’ from KPMG International and CREATE-Research finds that digital technologies are radically reshaping the alternative investment industry, but a large majority of hedge funds and private equity firms appear to be too slow to respond.
The report was based on a global survey of 125 hedge funds and private equity firms and conducted by KPMG International and CREATE-Research.
While 98 per cent of respondents say ‘business as usual’ is not an option, at least three out of five respondents said they are still at the nascent stage of ‘awareness raising’
THL Credit Advisors (THL Credit) has named Brian Murphy (pictured), as Head of Capital Markets. Murphy, who is based in Chicago, is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager for THL Credit’s Tradable Credit strategy.
In this newly created role, Murphy will be responsible for overseeing all of THL Credit’s capital markets activities, including sourcing investment opportunities from banks and lenders and managing excess risk across THL Credit’s Tradable Credit and Direct Lending strategies.
Murphy has more than twenty-four years of investment industry experience, principally in the area of leveraged finance. Mr. Murphy joined THL Credit in 2012 in connection
SharesPost has launched a new Digital Securities Group allowing token issuers and investors to use SharesPost’s existing Alternative Trading System to invest in ICO’s and trade in digital securities in compliance with US securities laws.
Entrepreneur and private market investor, John Wu, has been named CEO of the Digital Securities Group. His group will work with SharesPost Financial Corp to manage security token ICO’s on the platform and secondary trading of digital assets.
Investors will benefit from SharesPost’s proven transaction capabilities in unregistered securities and the digital custody capability of SharesPost’s Private Brokerage Accounts. Investors will also be able
Ocorian, a global provider of specialist financial services backed by private equity firm Inflexion, is to acquire ABAX, an advisory, corporate and business services provider based in Mauritius.
The acquisition will significantly extend Ocorian’s service range and delivery capability into Africa, Asia and the Middle East and swell its international team to 700 plus staff – including additional representation in Côte d’Ivoire, Dubai, Mauritius, Singapore and South Africa.
In turn, ABAX clients will now be able to access a much wider range of specialist alternative investment, corporate and private client services, across both onshore and offshore locations in Europe
The European Energy Exchange (EEX), Saxo Bank and PZEM Energy have partnered to offer German Power CFDs (Contracts for Differences) on Saxo’s fully integrated trading and risk management platform, SaxoTraderGO.
Saxo’s new German Power CFD will be linked exclusively to prices established in EEX’s Phelix-DE orderbook and will cover both Phelix-DE Base and Peak Futures with monthly, quarterly and yearly expiries.
Through the cooperation with Saxo Bank and PZEM Energy (who will act as market maker for the German Power CFD’s on the Saxo platform), a new and broader range of potential trading participants will now have access to EEX’s
MDX Technology’s MDXT Connect app is now available on the Symphony Market. The new app offers integration capabilities with a wide range of industry standard platforms, enabling users to publish real-time market data, like prices, axes, IOIs, etc, into the Symphony environment and collaborate more effectively with counter-parties, both internally and externally.
The MDXT Connect App is available immediately for download and evaluation. Additional collaboration features are planned over the coming months.
Paul Watmough (pictured), CEO at MDX Technology says: “Data is now recognised as being one of the most valuable, but least exploited assets that exists within every
The average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR7,773 million in January 2018, up 20.4 per cent compared to January 2017, and stable from the previous month.
The average daily transaction value on ETFs order book was EUR286 million, up +16.9 per cent compared to January 2017 and up +5.6 per cent from the previous month. At the end of January 2018, 808 ETFs were listed on Euronext compared to 804 at the end of 2017.
From January 2018, volumes on ETFs are only measured on order book activity due to low revenue-impact of off-book
Exchange Data International (EDI) has launched a new Option Analytics service, which covers over 10 million options and futures contracts and 10,000 issuers.
The service uses daily updates and historical data to provide end-of-day analytics and reference data for US and international exchange-listed options on equities, exchange traded funds (ETFs), equity indexes, and futures.
The service includes daily calculations of nine End of Day Options Sensitivities (Greeks – Delta, Gamma, Vega, Theta, Rho, Vanna, Volga, Speed, Lambda) and five End of Day Implied Volatilities and Interpolated Volatility Surfaces. It also provides Historical Volatilities time series for periods from 10 to 180 days.
Clients with access to
