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Fixed income specialist BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay) has successfully completed the implementation of SimCorp Dimension. The system now supports BlueBay's middle and back office operations across the entire investment book.
Over the past six years, BlueBay has doubled in size, both in terms of assets under management and the number of investment strategies it manages. The firm manages assets of approximately USD58 billion and continues to grow, thus requiring a system that enables a high degree of automation and scalability.
With SimCorp Dimension, BlueBay is able to handle its diverse range of asset classes, focused on fixed income and
- 11/12/2015
AX Trading has launched the AX Trading Network, a new electronic trading network (ETN) that allows institutional traders to target and trade with selected counterparties in a secure environment.
"We live in a networked world," says AX CEO George O'Krepkie. "We can connect with people around the world. We can share memories, photos and music. But we don't really have a true 'network' to trade securities…until now. We are changing the way traders connect."
As an ETN, AX is all about buyside trader access to liquidity, price discovery and control of order information. AX aims to address many current
- 11/12/2015
Schulte Roth & Zabel has appointed Jason L Behrens as special counsel in the firm’s New York office. He centers his practice on the structuring, formation and negotiation of private equity and hedge funds.
Behrens previously served as an associate at the firm and re-joins after having served as general counsel at ACE Portal, Inc.
Behrens has represented a wide variety of fund sponsors, asset managers and institutional investors in all stages of private equity funds, real estate funds, secondaries funds, funds of funds and other alternative asset classes, both domestically and internationally. He deals regularly with issues relating
- 11/12/2015
Borsa Istanbul has officially gone live on nine of Nasdaq's market-leading technologies including trading and clearing, settlement, market data management, index calculation, market surveillance, business intelligence, and pre- and post-trade risk management.
The initial implementation is for Borsa Istanbul's equity market. The Turkish exchange will also go live on Nasdaq technology for all other markets, including derivatives, debt securities, and precious metals markets.
The "transformation with technology" program, branded BISTECH by Borsa Istanbul, is a critical milestone in a series of major transformative steps aimed at making the Turkish capital markets more globally competitive.
"We are delighted to have
- 11/12/2015
Societe Generale Prime Services has announced the 2016 constituents for the Newedge CTA, Trend, and Short-Term Traders Indices.
The Newedge CTA indices are a suite of performance benchmarks, based on the largest CTA programs. The indices calculate the daily rate of return for an equally weighted group of the largest CTAs (by assets) that are open to new investment, and provide daily data. The new constituents will be effective as of 1 January 2016.
James Skeggs (pictured), Global Head of Alternative Investments Consulting at Societe Generale Prime Services, says: “We are delighted to have completed our annual constituent review
- 11/12/2015
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up 0.7 per cent in November. Four out of 11 Lyxor Indices ended the month in positive territory. The Lyxor CTA Long Term Index (+3.6 per cent), the Lyxor Global Macro Index (+1.8 per cent), and the Lyxor LS Equity Variable Bias Index (+1.2 per cent) were the best performers.
The Fed and the ECB took centre stage – again – in November. The October 28 FOMC statement downplayed abroad risks and specified that members would consider "at the next meeting" whether action would be appropriate. It spurred an orderly but clear market repositioning. Later
- 10/12/2015
Market participants must recalibrate business and operational models if they are to accommodate and benefit from fundamental changes within wholesale funding markets, according to a new BNY Mellon research paper published in conjunction with PwC Financial Services.
The newly released paper – The Future of Wholesale Funding Markets: A Focus on Repo Markets Post US Tri-Party Reform – concludes that, while regulation and ongoing reform will continue to shape wholesale funding, strong market forces combined with the underlying structure and profitability of the business are set to impact repo volumes, participant interactions, and views of risks in the system.
The
- 10/12/2015
Backstop Solutions Group, a leading provider of cloud-based solutions for hedge funds, funds of funds, private equity funds, family offices, pensions and endowments, has appointed Michael Neuman as Vice President, Information Security.
In this newly created role, Neuman will oversee Backstop’s data and information systems security, and continue to advance the company’s policies and procedures.
“Protecting our clients’ data is our top priority,” said CEO Clint Coghill. “With threats from cybercriminals continuing to rise, we are investing to ensure we maintain the highest data security standards.”
Backstop takes pride in engineering safe and secure software-as-a-service solutions for the alternative asset
- 10/12/2015
Artivest, a technology-driven investment platform, is heading in to the New Year year having passed a number of important milestones in 2015, including launching several new alternative asset funds, continuing to grow its user base of major independent advisors, providing customised white-labeled solutions for an expanding base of clients, and more than doubling the size of its staff.
Artivest’s accelerated business growth is indicative of the increasing demand among investors for access to institutional-quality alternative funds.
Having closed on a diverse array of top tier private equity and venture capital access funds since its 2013 launch, Artivest has unveiled plans
- 10/12/2015
BNY Mellon Investment Management has launched the BNY Mellon Absolute Insight Multi-Strategy Fund, an absolute return multi-strategy fund available in a liquid alternatives mutual fund vehicle.
The Fund is sub-advised by Insight Investment, a BNY Mellon investment boutique with USD605 billion under management globally, including USD27 billion in liquid alternative strategies.
The BNY Mellon Absolute Insight Multi-Strategy Fund is the first mutual fund launch in the US to be managed by Insight and is substantially similar to Insight's flagship multi-strategy absolute return capability, which has a 10-year track record of providing resilient absolute returns through episodes of market dislocation,
- 10/12/2015
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