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SPM LLC, a specialist fixed income manager focused on US residential mortgage-backed securities (MBS), rates, volatility, and credit, has appointed Peter J Mobberley has joined the Firm’s investor relations and marketing team as a Managing Director.
Previously, Mobberley (pictured), was a Managing Director of Business Development at Axonic Capital LLC.
“Peter brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in the MBS and fixed income sectors to SPM and we are excited to welcome him to our team,” says Chris Sutter, SPM’s head of Investor Relations and Marketing. “His extensive industry expertise and deep institutional relationships will be valuable as
By Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), CEO, The International Stock Exchange Group – There are a number of advantages of listing on TISE, including the ability to demonstrate additional substance within and create value for investment structures, says Fiona Le Poidevin, CEO, The International Stock Exchange Group.
Asset management groups are still coming to terms with the fact that international developments such as the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative have placed increased focus on the substance of investment structures.
However, there are a number of advantages of listing on TISE,
Deutsche Börse and Illuminate Financial Management have co-led in a USD5 million Series A funding round in RegTek.Solutions, a multi-jurisdiction regulatory reporting solutions provider.
Based in New York, RegTek.Solutions was launched earlier this year as a specialist provider of global regulatory compliance software by Risk Focus Inc, a risk and regulatory services firm. RegTek.Solutions provides innovative trade reporting solutions and cost-effective compliance software (Report-It) enabling firms to improve the quality, transparency and control of regulatory reporting obligations across multiple jurisdictions and asset classes, including OTC Swaps, Credit, Rates and Equity, as well as FX and Commodities trading. The firm counts ten
MDX Technology, a provider of real time data distribution solutions to the trading community, has appointed Simon Luhr (pictured), CEO and co-founder of FinEx Capital, as a Non-Executive Board Director.
At the same time Clare Walsh, founder of Metia and Finextra, is also joining as a strategic advisor to the Board of Directors. Both FinEx Capital and Clare are investors in the MDX business.
Paul Watmough, CEO and co-founder of MDX, says. “Over the last twelve months we have experienced strong demand for our solutions and have added a number of prestigious new names to our increasing client list.
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, has launched the European Gas Spot Market Index (EGSI), which will cover all liquid gas spot markets operated by PEGAS.
Along with the launch of EGSI, PEGAS will also harmonise the use of existing indices for the futures market.
The introduction of EGSI will allow market participants to better mirror short-term price developments in their contracts. As a result of the opening and liberalisation of the European Gas markets, the importance of transparent prices determined on supervised exchanges has increased further. The substitution of oil-indexed pricing by gas-hub pricing is
Nasdaq is to acquire eVestment, an industry leading content and analytics provider used by asset managers, investment consultants and asset owners to help facilitate institutional investment decisions.
The acquisition is expected to deliver attractive shareholder returns with a combination of recurring, predictable revenue, a strong track record of growth and attractive cash flow dynamics.
eVestment provides institutional investors the largest, most comprehensive database for both traditional and alternative strategies, including as many as 2,800 individual data points on more than 74,000 investment vehicles. eVestment has more than 2,000 clients, including 92 per cent of the top asset managers, 76
Experienced investment fund lawyer James Bermingham has joined Ogier’s Luxembourg team as counsel.
Bermingham (pictured), who has experience in City and offshore law firms and as a General Counsel of a global asset manager and private equity administration group, is admitted in England and Wales and is registered on List IV in Luxembourg.
He joins the growing Ogier team in Luxembourg led by practice partner Francois Pfister – the firm marks its fifth anniversary this year, with six partners qualified in Luxembourg law, and over 35 staff in total.
Pfister says: “James’ broad experience and specific expertise in
By Don Steinbrugge (pictured), Agecroft Partners – Hedge fund managers focused on structured credit strategies can be simplistically divided into two categories: beta managers or alpha generators. Many investors believe the beta opportunity born out of the financial crisis has substantially run its course.
As such, they find risk adjusted returns from structured credit beta managers are not particularly attractive. On the other hand, inefficiencies in the structured credit markets persist, providing opportunities to generate strong, alpha-driven risk adjusted returns relative to other hedge fund strategies.
Beta managers are defined as primarily long biased managers with some leverage. Typically their net
LRI Group, the leading independent investment services company, has partnered with TAO Alternatives to launch its liquid alternative investment strategy, which has assets of more than EUR 250 million.
The investment strategy has been managed since 2007 and is available to institutional investors in the Opportunities Fund, as UCITS and Luxembourg Specialised Investment Fund (SIF). The CACEIS Bank Luxembourg Branch is acting Fund Administrator and Custodian.
TAO Alternatives is managed by fund managers, Dr Lukas Goetz and Achim Motamedi. The name ‘TAO Alternatives’ derives from their book ‘The Art of Alternative Investing’.
Goetz is an experienced fund manager
