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Horizon Software (Horizon), a provider of electronic trading and investment management technology, is to help develop Warrant market expertise within the Vietnam market.
A key challenge was to provide business knowledge of the Covered Warrants issuing and market making business to help stimulate and support market development in Vietnam.
Horizon has provided a series of workshop presentations, which included two Hong Kong-based Warrants experts, to address Vietnamese audiences. Topics covered included market-making, Warrants marketing strategies, implementation and operational activities, IT solutions, trading operations and risk management. The workshops gave the speakers the chance to outline Horizon’s new Covered Warrant
Treasury operations due diligence is expanding well beyond the historical focus on cash controls, and now includes a more evolved and optimised manager’s treasury function. This is not only essential to minimising counterparty risk, but also key to reducing costs and adding incremental yield.
That’s according to a new white paper from Hazeltree, a provider of integrated buy-side treasury management solutions.
The paper says that institutional investors are continuing their allocations to alternative investments at a rapid pace, with record inflows reported. This trend is likely to continue into 2018, with strong allocations to hedge funds, private equity, and
Last month, Hedgeweek, in partnership with Intralinks, hosted a breakfast briefing in London to present the findings of a global LP survey that sought to determine investor sentiment towards GPs.
More than 140 LPs responded to the survey, of whom approximately 52 per cent were based in North America, 31 per cent in Europe and 15 per cent in Asia Pacific. Nearly one quarter (22 per cent) were public pension plans, 15 per cent were consultants and 13 per cent were either endowments or family offices.
Allocation insights
The breakfast briefing took the form a fireside discussion between James Williams,
NEX Data, which delivers independent market intelligence and price information for OTC data, has launched a series of US Treasury Benchmarks to provide enhanced transparency and pricing information to the US Treasuries market.
The new benchmarks will be published at 11am, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm in the New York trading day and will reflect actual transactions and orders during the 15-minute fixing window on NEX Market’s BrokerTec platform, the industry leading anonymous dealer-to-dealer electronic trading platform for the fixed income markets.
These new benchmarks use data from the market’s largest trading platform and bring increased transparency to the market
After a string of strong performances this year, some hedge fund investors may be doing a bit of profit-taking, with redemptions of -USD2.9 billion from hedge funds in October, according to the eVestment October 2017 Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report.
However, performance gains continued pushing industry assets under management (AUM) up, with industry AUM at a record USD3.253 trillion according to the new report.
The proportion of funds losing assets in October was similar to the proportion seen in September, roughly 54 per cent. Both levels are higher than any other month of 2017, but again net redemptions were
Christopher J Flynn has been named CEO of both TCRD and THL Credit effective 30 November, 2017. Sam W Tillinghast, co-CEO of THL Credit alongside Flynn, will resign his position on the same date.
The current management team of THL Credit, which has deep credit, origination, and operational experience across the platform, will continue to manage the businesses under Flynn’s leadership.
“It is an honour to continue to lead our organisation alongside our executive team,” says Flynn.
The experienced THL Credit leadership team includes James Fellows, Chief Investment Officer, who manages credit in concert with Senior Managing Director
The latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset team takes a look at how hedge funds view the current state of Brexit negotiations, and as with just about everything to do with the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, the picture is less than clear.
Lyxor writes: “Amid intensifying negotiations on Brexit, we assessed hedge funds’ views on UK assets. The sixth round of negotiations ended with limited progress. The EU and the UK have yet to agree on the exit terms before negotiating the future trade relationship. The multiple fractures in the UK (across political forces, business interests, regional powers)
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has published the calendar for the auctioning of EU emission allowances (EUA) for 2018 in coordination with the European Commission and the participating member states as well as with the competent German authorities.
EEX will carry out EUA auctions on behalf of 25 member states on three days per week in the framework of the common EU auction platform. These auctions are scheduled to take place on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays during the period of 8 January to 17 December 2018.
In its capacity as the auction platform appointed by the Federal Republic of
Stuart Gardner (pictured), a Director at EY in Transaction Advisory Services, and David Jones, Counsel at Carey Olsen, writing on behalf of the Guernsey Investment Fund Association, look at Guernsey’s role as a centre for restructuring and insolvency1…
Importance of a robust insolvency regime
The World Bank’s Ease of doing Business Index2 quite simply measures the ease of doing business in 190 jurisdictions. It takes the mean of 10 subindices to benchmark those jurisdictions. Three of those indices measure the quality of the insolvency regime including protecting investors, enforcing contracts and resolving insolvency. Given that 30 per cent of the
Information Publishing has acquired CapitalTrack, a data provider of Floating Rate information to the Fixed Income market.
“We are pleased to welcome the CapitalTrack clients, suppliers and team into the Information Publishing PLC family, and to be adding their first-class database – covering Floating Rate, Asset Backed and Structured Securities markets – to our expanding range of financial reference data products. This is the first of several acquisitions that we will be making to add to our datasets,” says Michael Kaufman, Chief Financial Officer, Information Publishing
CapitalTrack maintains the largest independent, on-line Repository of static and event-based operational data in
