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Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of technology solutions for alternative asset managers, has enhanced its Cash Master, Price Master, EDM, regulatory, cloud and managed services offerings.
With over USD1.5 trillion of global hedge fund AUM managed using its technology, IVP has also extended its footprint in Direct Lending, CLO, BDC, Private Equity, Real Estate, Infrastructure and traditional asset management segments. Bringing the flexibility of the IVP solution suite to new market segments will allow traditional asset managers the ability to create operational efficiencies that traditional hedge funds have enjoyed and harnessed for years.
IVP Cash Master now features
Charles River is helping clients prepare for the impending European Union’s Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) requirements by incorporating ICE Data Services’ Continuous Evaluated Pricing (CEP) into the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS).
Charles River provides investment managers with an end-to-end solution for meeting regulatory obligations under MiFID II. The solution captures key data and trade lifecycle decision points needed to comply with new requirements for trade and transaction reporting, best execution and commission management.
CEP provides an independent, trade-by-trade measure of price quotes that help fixed income portfolio managers and traders more
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has set a new daily record in Phelix-DE Futures, achieving a total of 10.8 TWh on 19 December, which is 62 per cent above the previous record (6.7 TWh on 12 December 2017).
In terms of the overall power derivatives market, a total of 22.2 TWh were traded on that day.
In addition, trading volumes on the market for butter futures recorded a new all-time high yesterday at 2,090 tonnes of goods equivalent (418 contracts). The previous record was set on 9th March 2016 at 1,500 tonnes of goods equivalent (300 contracts).
The
The Global Fund Media daily newsletter team is taking its customary year-end break, and will resume business as usual on Monday 8 January.
We will continue to update our websites with the most important industry news during the holiday period.
We wish all our readers the very best for the festive season, and we look forward to working with all of you again in 2018.
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for December 2017 measured 4.18 per cent, up from 3.91 per cent in November.
“SS&C’s Forward Redemption Indicator of 4.18 per cent for December 2017 compares very favourably with the 5.67 per cent reported for the same period a year ago for December 2016,” says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “This result marks the eleventh consecutive month of year-over-year improvement in redemption notices and is also the lowest level of redemption notices for any month of December since inception of the indicator in 2008.
“In terms of annual
Concerns about data and system security, and ensuring systems will be equipped for compliance with GPDR are among the key technology concerns for IT professionals in the finance sector, according to a new study from digital workplace provider Invotra.
Research, conducted with senior IT managers working across a variety of financial services organisations, found that 85 per cent of respondents consider data and systems security to be their biggest priority. Over half (52 per cent) also said that high profile cyber-attacks in the news prompt greater scrutiny on existing systems, and nearly a third (31 per cent) said they make
New hedge fund launches exceeded liquidations on a quarterly basis for the first time in over two years, as improved investor risk tolerance and declining costs drove total hedge funds industry capital to a record USD3.16 trillion in Q3 2017.
New fund launches totalled 176 in the quarter, narrowly exceeding the 170 launches recorded in same quarter last year and bringing the year-to-date (YTD) total to 545 funds, according to the latest HFR Market Microstructure Report, released today by HFR, the established global leader in the indexation, analysis and research of the global hedge fund industry.
At the same
As investment managers juggle a variety of priorities in order to continue to evolve their business model, trying to balance where to spend operating budget on internal resources versus outsourcing has become a critical consideration. In many ways, the advances in technology and the sheer number of outsourcing providers in the marketplace have given COOs of investment firms much more choice for consideration.
Deciding which tasks to outsource has moved beyond the realm of the back-office into the front- and middle-office. With so many regulatory and investor reporting demands, leveraging outsourced providers with expertise in data management, aggregation, and report
By Joseph Bartolotta (pictured), Meyler Capital – A thinly disguised allegory with slightly twisted references to all your beloved holiday classics…
The marketing agency guy closed his office door, wished everyone in the lobby a Merry Christmas and stepped out into the cold New York air. It had been a good year – clients were satisfied, revenue was up, the business was growing. But a key goal was unfulfilled: another year was drawing to a close without anyone airing a TV commercial for an alternatives manager.
Despite all the progress his firm had made – getting managers to develop a
APEX Token Fund (APEX), a San Francisco-based investment manager, has launched a tokenised cryptocurrency-focused fund of hedge funds, allowing investors access to a diversified portfolio of assets managed by a selection of top performing cryptocurrency hedge funds.
Investors can buy into the fund by purchasing APEX tokens (tokens), which are registered on the Ethereum blockchain. The fund targets primarily retail investors and those already familiar with investing in cryptocurrencies, who want more diversified exposure to this emerging asset class.
The introduction of a tokenised fund brings investment in this emerging asset class into the mainstream. Unlike investing directly in
