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Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) and Allianz Capital Partners (ACP) are joining forces to extend the range of investment expertise available to AllianzGI’s broad global client base.
From 1 January 2018, ACP will become a discrete entity under the umbrella of AllianzGI. ACP and AllianzGI will jointly develop an investment offering for external clients, based on ACP’s long-proven expertise and investment processes. ACP will continue to provide their offering to Allianz Group companies and their clients. Jürgen Gerke, CEO of ACP, will report to Andreas Utermann (pictured), CEO of AllianzGI.
Utermann says: “We are delighted to be extending our client
Commcise, a buy-side focused commission management, research valuation and research accounting platform, and RSRCHXchange, an aggregator and marketplace for institutional research, have teamed up to deliver an integrated research solution to support the research consumption, valuation and accounting data requirements of buy-side and sell-side firms.
With the MiFID II implementation deadline only a few weeks away, there is an urgent need for investment managers to have their research funding data, consumption data and accounting data in one place in order to comply with the latest requirements. Under the new unbundling regulations due to be implemented on 3 January 2018, buy-side
Quant Insight, a macro research firm providing discretionary managers with actionable investment ideas, has launched an Analytics Dashboard, which brings together the ability to analyse and visualise patterns between asset prices and the macro forces driving them, and tools to identify the best trading expression across all asset classes.
Discretionary portfolio managers face an ever more challenging environment: capital flight and margin compression due to the threat from passive strategies makes it more important than ever that active managers deliver superior performance. An explosion of data, greater cross-asset correlations and geographical inter-connectedness make alpha generation tricky. Moreover, even when managers
Market participants using MarketFacory’s ultra-low latency API for foreign exchange trading, Whisperer, will be able to trade Bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) when they launch on 18 December.
Additionally, Whisperer provides access to Bitcoin market data.
“Our Whisperer API and connectivity solution simplifies and reduces our client’s technical cost of entry to new currency markets, and with that in mind, we are pleased to announce that BTC futures are already available to trade via our CME integration,” says Matt Whitaker, director of product management, MarketFactory.
“Traditionally, futures contracts are seen as a means of damping
Ultimus Fund Solutions, one of the largest independent providers of mutual fund, pooled investment and middle office services, has launched uComply, a portfolio compliance application .
An internally developed app, uComply helps fund managers monitor investment portfolios against federal regulations and fund guidelines with a high degree of accuracy while providing flexibility and highly-customisable reporting that managers need. This app is yet another confirmation of Ultimus’ commitment to deliver best-in-class technology for the benefit of investment advisor clients.
Ultimus’ portfolio compliance application, uComply, helps mutual fund managers monitor investment portfolios.
By leveraging Ultimus’ internal application development team to design
Eze Software has partnered with Wise Trading Technologies to enhance its currency offering. With WiseRisk, Eze OMS users will get more automation, visibility and precision in managing currency risk in real-time.
WiseRisk enables users to eliminate fragmented spreadsheets and mitigate laborious, error-prone manual processes.
Wise Trading Technologies specialises in tools to help asset managers automate and optimise many of the tasks associated with managing currency risk. Timing, netting, and broker selection are optimised, taking into account client preferences and constraints, and providing an audit trail related to currency exposure.
“FX risk management is critical to many of our
HFR has launched two new indices, the HFR Blockchain Composite Index and the HFR Cryptocurrency Index, the first family of indices designed to capture performance of hedge funds investing in this rapidly evolving space.
The HFR Blockchain Composite Index includes funds that invest directly in blockchain technology, cryptocurrency or other emerging blockchain innovations. Managers focus on how blockchain technologies have begun to, and will continue to, fundamentally change payments, banking, market trading structure, Internet of things (IoT), healthcare, remittances, supply chains, digital identity and more. In addition, key exposure themes include cloud storage, decentralised computing, digital investment platforms, distributed ledger
Northern Trust has hired Edwin Chan (pictured), to spearhead sales across the alternatives fund sectors in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Reporting to John Grundy, institutional sales manager for Northern Trust’s Corporate & Institutional Services (C&IS) business in EMEA, Chan will focus on further accelerating the growth of specialist alternative asset servicing capabilities across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, renewable energy and debt funds.
“We are delighted to announce Chan’s appointment as we continue to expand our capabilities and our leadership in our alternatives business, which supports over USD1 trillion in assets on behalf of global asset managers
Only 2 per cent of capital markets firms have a fully automated compliance support program, according to an Aite Group and Cordium survey. And this high level of dependence on manual processes is leaving the industry open to errors, gaps in compliance, a lack of agility in reporting during an audit, and ultimately the risk of non-compliance.
‘Regtech Realities: Moving from Reactive to Proactive Compliance’, explores the evolving needs of capital markets firms in the face of continued regulatory changes. The report assesses the strategic direction and practicalities of compliance, including workflow and resource challenges and how firms prioritise investment in automation.
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for November 2017 measured -0.40 per cent.
Hedge fund flows meanwhile, as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index, declined 0.18 per cent in December.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index showed a net outflow for December 2017 of -0.18 per cent,” says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “On a year-over-year basis, this compares to net inflows for December 2016 of 0.21. December net flows have been close to zero in recent years, so this result was within the range of expectations for the
