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ITI Capital has appointed John Barker (pictured), as Non-Executive Chairman. He was formerly the Executive Chairman of BCS and Managing Director and Head of International at Liquidnet Europe for over 10 years, as well as serving on the Board at Instinet.
In his new role, Barker will spearhead ITI Capital’s business strategy, offering direct market access to emerging markets for global clients, and to global markets for its Russian clients. The London based team also offers prime brokerage services and a trading platform for algorithmic funds, as well as structured products and technology-focused asset management.
Barker says: “I am extremely
Digital asset management platform ICONOMI, has secured Columbus Capital as its first asset management partner to maintain and grow funds comprised entirely of blockchain based assets.
ICONOMI will continue focusing on platform development and offering the software tools for blockchain-focused fund managers, while Columbus Capital will independently manage three initial funds; a comprehensive Blockchain Index (BLX), Pinta (CCP), a closed-end, high performance fund focusing on novel digital assets and Blockchain.ONE, a fund soon to be listed on traditional, internationally regulated exchanges.
Each of these funds originated as the first Digital Asset Arrays (DAAs) built on ICONOMI’s software. Co-founder of
The hedge fund industry has experienced significant forces of change in recent years, mostly driven by market regulation in the form of FATCA and the Dodd-Frank Act placing Form PF and CPO-PQR reporting obligations on firms.
This has led to far greater complexity with respect to operational compliance and prompted a wide universe of service providers to offer their support, from trade execution and portfolio management services, all the way through to compliance, accountancy and audit services.
But as the complexity of the marketplace increases, smaller and emerging managers find it increasingly hard to find the right service provider to
Ipreo, a provider of workflow solutions and market intelligence to financial services and corporate professionals, has completed the first domestic fixed income new issue deal in Japan on IssueNet, the company’s fixed income syndicate connectivity software.
The transaction was done for hybrid bonds issued by Sekisui House, Ltd. The deal’s bookrunner was Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co, Ltd. (MUMSS), with co-lead managers Mizuho Securities Co, Ltd. and SMBC Nikko Securities Inc. IssueNet enabled the banks involved in the deal to work simultaneously in one orderbook, and for the issuer to have a real-time view into the book during the
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for July 2017 measured 1.24 per cent. Hedge fund flows meanwhile, as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index, advance 0.25 per cent in August.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index rose 0.25 per cent for August 2017, indicating positive net flows into hedge funds,” says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “Although lower than the 0.74 per cent gain in net flows registered during the same period a year ago for August 2016, this increase continues the favorable trend in net asset retention by
Hedge funds returned an average of +1.21 per cent in July 2017 representing the ninth consecutive month of positive performance for the asset class, according to eVestment’s latest hedge fund performance report.
Year-to-date the industry is +4.77 per cent, with three quarters of all strategies in positive territory. Equity exposure continues to produce the best performance, with activists and long/short equity leading in 2017.
Event Driven-Activist funds were top performers among primary strategies during the month, returning +1.67 per cent, bringing YTD returns to a healthy +7.29 per cent.
Among primary markets, Equity-focused funds were also strong performers,
Managed futures traders gained 0.64 per cent in July according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The index is down 1.04 per cent for the year.
The BTOP50 Index, which tracks 20 of the largest CTAs, showed a modest gain of 0.60 per cent and is down 4.20 per cent through the end of July.
“Managed futures traders were able to eke out gains last month in spite of the cross currents in commodity markets,” says Sol Waksman (pictured), founder and president of BarclayHedge. “Profits resulting from US dollar weakness against the euro and a new record
Global fixed-income manager Western Asset has taken a minority ownership stake in Flat Rock Global, a new alternative asset manager focused on developing yield-driven investment strategies in asset classes under-served by the mainstream banking sector.
John Thomson of Thomson Equity also invested alongside Western Asset.
The investment supports Flat Rock Global’s investment strategies, including their initial fund, Flat Rock Capital Corp, a business development company focused on investing in first lien, floating rate debt of middle market companies.
“We are pleased to partner with Western Asset, one of world’s premier asset managers,” says Robert K Grunewald (pictured), CEO
Trading volume in options and futures on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) each reached new all-time highs on Thursday, 10 August.
In VIX options at CBOE, a reported 2,562,477 contracts traded on Thursday, surpassing the previous single-day record of 2,382,752 contracts on 3 February, 2014. Year-to-date through the end of July, average daily volume in VIX options was 687,181 contracts, 11 per cent ahead of the same period a year ago.
In VIX futures at CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE), a reported 939,297 contracts traded on Thursday, surpassing the previous single-day record of 791,788 contracts on 15 October, 2014. Of the 10
If your firm hasn’t fallen prey to a security breach, you’re probably one of the lucky ones. But you also probably won’t be safe for long, as most firms, at some point in time, will encounter a cybersecurity incident. Cyber incidents today come in many forms, but whether a system compromise at the hands of an attacker or an access control breach resulting from a phishing scam, firms must have documented incident response policies in place to handle the aftermath.
With the threat of security incidents at all all-time high, we want to ensure our clients and partners have plans and
