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BCS Financial Group, the largest broker of securities on the Moscow Exchange, has overcome challenging market conditions in Russia in the first six months of the year to achieve significant growth compared to the first half of 2014.
Despite a difficult year for Russian equity markets, with lower volumes and falling equity valuations, BCS, which is independently owned, has increased both revenue and profit – vastly outperforming both the Russian market and competing firms.
The results come on the back of the company’s first move into the American market with the strategic acquisition of Alforma Capital Markets Inc, the
Geneva-based asset management company Argos Investment Managers SA is changing its name to Quaero Capital SA.
The rebranding is driven by the firm’s continuing international expansion and a growing concern that its original name may lead to confusion with other businesses in the sector.
Founded in 2005 in Geneva, QUAERO Capital is a specialist investment management boutique that offers a range of actively managed, high-conviction funds with a commitment to fundamental research and original thinking. ‘Quaero’ – the Latin word for ‘I research’ or ‘I seek’, is consistent with that commitment.
Quaero Capital is 100 per cent employee owned. Its
Liquidnet saw record third quarter performance in Europe as institutional investors increasingly searched for size and improved execution quality, ahead of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) rules taking effect in January 2017.
These rules are expected to bring about tougher best execution requirements and caps on trading within dark pools.
In Q3 2015, average execution size was USD1.5 million. Total principal traded climbed to USD34.7 billion, up 18.98 per cent year-over-year (YoY), with continued strong growth coming from Continental European members up 41 per cent to USD2.8 billion total principal traded YoY.
“More and more
Start-ups in ASEAN are drawing increasing attention from venture capital firms and several countries have put in place measures to encourage such activities. The appetite for venture capital investments has seen a growth in both the number of deals and aggregate value transacted between 2014 and 2015 YTD. On the other hand, buyout activity has yet to match the peak seen in 2014.
In 2014-2015 YTD, there were 401 venture capital deals completed in ASEAN, totalling USD2.2 billion in aggregate value. When looking at buyout activities in the same timeframe, a total of 81 private equity-backed buyout deals were transacted
100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF) successfully raised over GBP550,000 at its annual London Gala in aid of The Art Room, a charity that provides art as therapy to increase children's self-esteem, self-confidence and independence.
The 100WHF London Gala was held last night (27 October) at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, with the support of more than 250 leaders from the alternative investment industry. Elizabeth Corley, CBE, CEO of Allianz Global Investors, received 100 Women in Hedge Funds’ 2015 European Industry Leadership Award in recognition of her example and advocacy of mentorship for future leaders of the industry.
Macro Risk Advisors (MRA), a provider of global equity derivatives strategy and trade execution for institutional investors, has expanded its business development team with the addition of Katya Kouznetsov (pictured) as Vice President of Business Development and Clearing Operations.
The appointment of Kouznetsov is part of MRA’s plan to deliver its product and services to a wider audience of institutional investors who will benefit from exceptional analysis of global market risk.
"Katya brings valuable experience in business development initiatives, including prospective client engagement and ongoing client success,” says Drew Forman, Co-Head of Equity Derivative Sales and Trading at MRA.
Indus Valley Partners (IVP), a provider of technology solutions to alternative asset managers, celebrated its 15th year in the hedge fund industry this month by adding its 100th client to a long list of alternative asset managers using its solutions.
Now considered one of the largest independent solutions providers to hedge funds, IVP has clients with more than USD850 billion of assets under management on its platform.
Since it’s founding in 2000, IVP has built a business initially focused on the sell-side to one that is an integral part of the buy-side alternative asset management industry. With projections indicating
Six months after the transfer of agricultural products to the European Energy Exchange (EEX) the exchange registered a significant volume record on its dairy future markets. This is also the highest daily volume ever traded on a futures market for dairy products in Europe.
On 23 October 2015 a total of 324 contracts were traded on the dairy future market, corresponding to a volume of 1,620 tons. 108 contracts were traded in Butter Futures (equivalent to 540 tons) while 216 contracts were traded in Skimmed Milk Powder Futures (equivalent to 1,080 tons).
As of 11 May 2015 EEX has been
A new qualification, the Certificate in Finance and Technology (CFT), has launched as the first and only global qualification designed specifically for technologists in financial institutions.
The CFT is unique in giving technology professionals in financial services organisations a genuine understanding of the business context in which they operate. By bridging the gap between the worlds of finance and technology, the CFT helps financial institutions to maximise the value of their technology teams, as well as helping candidates advance their careers.
Rob Woods (pictured), co-founder of the CFT, says: “The gap in understanding between financial services and technology specialists
TradeSocio, a marketing software provider for brokers, has launched a marketing automation and analytics platform designed specifically for forex and futures brokers.
The platform analyses traders’ behaviour, allowing brokers to automatically send targeted messages to individual traders at the optimal times.
TradeSocio’s new marketing platform provides brokers with a suite of tools to increase their demo-to-live account conversion rates, attract new traders, increase trading volume, and improve the retention of existing traders. The platform achieves this by collecting trading data, and then allowing brokers to build automation ‘workflows’ to send emails to traders when certain conditions are met.
Brokers can
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