Latest News
GMEX Technologies (GMEX TECH), part of the Global Markets Exchange Group International, and Avenir Technology Limited (Avenir), the UK based post-trade software firm, have partnered with the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa (ACE).
This partnership will deliver a new system to issue, manage, trade, clear and settle warehouse receipts for soft commodities. The new system will integrate all the functionality of the current ACE systems and processes into a high performance, agile, scalable technology platform, while also paving the way for expansion into derivatives trading, central counterparty clearing and other instruments in the near future.
Whereas existing warehouse receipt systems
- 24/04/2015
This extract from the Preqin Quarterly Update: Infrastructure, Q1 2015 reflects on the first quarter’s infrastructure fundraising activity.
Fundraising for unlisted infrastructure funds declined in Q1 2015, with just four funds closing, raising an aggregate USD5.3 billion in institutional capital (Fig 1). This represents the lowest amount of capital raised in a single quarter since Q3 2013, when USD4.8 billion was raised. However, those fund managers that are closing funds are often raising large amounts of capital; the average fund size has increased from USD503 million for funds closed in 2011 to USD984 million in 2014.
This trend is reinforced
- 23/04/2015
Altana Wealth, the asset management group, has teamed up with Godot Huard, a behavioural computer scientist, who has developed a unique system based on the theory that ‘directors know best’.
There is much academic evidence to support the theory that the purchase of shares by a firm’s own directors can give a great insight to those investors who are ‘outsiders’ of the company in question.
However, there are several critical factors which need to be considered before the theory can become a viable investment proposition:
• the ability to analyse the large amounts of data generated by directors filings
- 23/04/2015
Macro Risk Advisors (MRA) has expanded its Risk Strategy team with the addition of Ling Zhou as an Equity Derivatives Strategist.
The addition of Zhou demonstrates MRA’s continued effort to offer exceptional and timely analysis of global market risk to its institutional investor client base.
“Ling brings a strong base of equity derivatives knowledge and an exceptional ability to develop quantitative tools," says Pravit Chintawongvanich, Head of Risk Strategy at MRA. "Our institutional client base continues to seek our help in valuing products with embedded optionality. Ling’s product knowledge furthers our mission in this area.”
As the firm expands its
- 23/04/2015
DigitalTangible, a decentralised gold, precious metals and bitcoin exchange has rebranded as Serica as it broadens its investment platform offerings to global traders, investors, and merchants.
Serica is aiming to provide smooth trading of any valuable, physical asset and digital money, in ways that have traditionally been considered impossible or extremely difficult.
Serica’s rebrand coincides with upcoming launches of its newest product offerings linking bitcoins, the bitcoin blockchain technology, to valuable, physical assets around the world. Serica’s broadened ability to trade assets beyond precious metals includes new verticals such as real estate, soft commodities, and even farmland. Serica also establishes
- 23/04/2015
- 23/04/2015
CloudAlpha Capital Management, a start-up hedge fund, has chosen Linedata’s flagship hedge fund solution, Global Hedge, as its portfolio management technology solution.
Global Hedge is designed to allow clients to have total control of their portfolios and transactions, from the front office straight through to the back office.
CloudAlpha will focus on the US Technology markets in a long/short capacity. Set up last year, CloudAlpha is using Linedata Global Hedge Portfolio Management System in a fully hosted environment, which has enabled the start up to launch quickly and avoid any unnecessary technology and resource overhead costs.
Benny Ho, Operations Director
- 23/04/2015
Societe Generale has launched Tempo, a collateral management outsourcing solution aimed both at buy-side and sell-side market participants, including traditional and alternative asset managers, institutional investors, banks and major corporates.
A unique, multi-asset offering, “Tempo” alleviates the complexity, cost and operational burden of collateral management throughout the entire value chain.
With the introduction of new risk management standards and margining regulations for cleared and uncleared derivatives, by EMIR in Europe and the Dodd Frank Act in the United States, collateral will progressively need to be managed by sophisticated, automated processes across a network of multiple counterparties, clearing brokers
- 22/04/2015
The hedge fund industry produced an aggregate return of -0.17 per cent in March to end Q1 2015 +1.23 per cent, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Industry Performance Summary Report. The S&P 500 increased +0.96 per cent over the same period.
Hedge fund performance returns were mixed in March amid increased equity market volatility and divergent moves in currencies, rates and commodities.
Managed futures (MF) funds posted their fifth consecutive monthly gain in March, +0.27 per cent. There continues to be a meaningful performance gap between large MF funds (>USD1bb) and their smaller peers. In 2014, large MF funds
- 22/04/2015
Investment management sector technology specialist RFA (Richard Fleischman & Associates) has launched a new data governance solution for the alternative asset industry.
The data governance service extends the full functionality previously only offered by enterprise level data governance services to the alternative asset industry at a significantly lower price point.
The RFA Data Governance service reports on permission structures and monitors and logs data access, and generates real time alerts based on the criteria set by the client. Clients located in the United States and the United Kingdom will be able to access the new service in a subscription format
- 22/04/2015
- 22/04/2015
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2015 measured 3.36 per cent, down from 3.91 per cent in March.
“The forward Redemption Indicator for both April and Year to Date 2015 are consistent with seasonal trends and closely in line with year ago numbers. This suggests the hedge fund sector remains stable,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies.
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator represents the sum of forward redemption notices received from investors in hedge funds administered by SS&C GlobeOp on the SS&C GlobeOp platform, divided by the AuA at the beginning of
- 22/04/2015
Special Reports
FeatureD
- Intel
- April 26, 2024
- Intel
- April 25, 2024
- Intel
- April 24, 2024
- Intel
- April 23, 2024
- Intel
- April 22, 2024
- Intel
- April 19, 2024
- Intel
- April 18, 2024
- Intel
- April 17, 2024
