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Jeff Mazer and Katya Baron have joined Aequitas Capital as senior managing director of capital markets and treasury, and managing director of capital markets, respectively.
Mazer has more than 30 years of financial services industry experience. He most recently served as a director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Global Liquidity Investment Solutions unit, where he led a team that helped deliver investment management solutions for clients with approximately USD63 billion in assets.
Mazer will be responsible for managing the company's portfolio of investment offerings, executing senior and junior debt and credit strategies, and serving as an advisor to executive
TABB Group has promoted Anthony J Perrotta (pictured), Jr and Andy Nybo to partner, global heads of research and consulting.
According to Larry Tabb, founder and CEO, TABB Group, they have been appointed to the financial markets research and consulting firm’s executive management committee.
Perrotta is now directing all aspects of the firm’s client management, business development, and research content development. Nybo is directing all aspects of TABB’s research activities including equities, listed derivatives, fixed income and technology.
“As the financial industry continues undergoing significant regulatory reform, market structure changes and business model adaptation,” says Tabb, “we wanted to forge
ENSO Financial Analytics (ENSO), a provider of data-driven investment and operational insights for hedge funds, has appointed Michael McMahon (pictured) as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
McMahon will join the executive team and will be responsible for expanding ENSO's network infrastructure and core analytics. He will report to Partner and Co-Founder, Dwaine Alleyne.
McMahon was previously a Managing Director at Bank of New York Mellon, where he led several engineering and architecture teams in building a big data analytics platform for the bank. His vast knowledge base in information technology systems includes enterprise architecture for complex design and large data integration
TradeSharp has integrated with the Tradier API to enable individual traders using its Algorithmic Trading Platform to benefit from Tradier’s brokerage services, scalability and competitive pricing.
Individual investors and traders benefiting from TradeSharp’s flexible architecture and ability to easily automate any rules-based trading strategies in stocks, forex and ETFs, will now be able to make more cost-effective trades and have greater flexibility as a result of the integration with Tradier.
“Our integration with Tradier allows us to further simplify and streamline the process and cost-savings around any trade, strengthening the value of our intuitive, automated and algorithmic trading platform provided
The Institute of Trading and Portfolio Management (ITPM) has appointed fund manager and ex-Goldman Sachs and Brevan Howard trader Tristan Edwards as a Senior Trading Mentor in Australia and New Zealand.
Edwards has over 15 years' experience as a Professional Trader. After graduating with a degree in Commerce from the University of Tasmania in 1996, he joined the Commonwealth Department of Finance as part of their 1997 graduate program working on the Australian Commonwealth National Budget. He soon moved to the private sector and started his career in trading with Goldman Sachs in Melbourne as an Institutional Equities Trader
Munich Reinsurance America, has appointed John Vasturia (pictured) and Jill Beggs to new leadership positions, effective immediately.
Vasturia has been named as President of Munich Re America’s Specialty Markets and a member of the Company’s US P&C Executive Board. Vasturia replaces Carsten Prussog who has assumed a new leadership role with Munich Re (Group).
Previously, Vasturia served as Head of New Strategic Markets, with responsibility to establish an Innovation Practice and Risk Incubator for the US P&C Operations of Munich Re. Prior to this role, John was President of Regional Clients Underwriting at Munich Reinsurance America, Inc.
Vasturia first joined
FinTech Sandbox has partnered with Quandl, a web-based platform for financial and economic data. Quandl will offer startups participating in the Sandbox program access to both free and premium data from hundreds of publishers, via its simple and flexible platform.
FinTech Sandbox residents may use this data up to six months for development, testing, and customer demonstrations purposes.
Quandl is providing FinTech Sandbox residents with access to more than 20 million financial and economic datasets, including premium data from Zacks Investment Research, a leading data publisher of North American earnings estimates. Sandbox residents may now begin working with Zacks’ extensive
Orc, a specialist in electronic trading technology for listed derivatives, has launched certified connectivity to Borsa İstanbul enabling quoting and trading on Borsa İstanbul for all Orc clients using the Execution Bricks or the Orc Trading Bricks platforms.
Since its formation in 2013, Borsa İstanbul brings together all the exchanges operating in the Turkish capital markets under one roof.
“Turkey is becoming an increasingly attractive market, with a steady rise in trading activity and demand from the region,” says Jonas Hansbo (pictured), Chief Strategy Officer, Orc Group. “We are delighted to offer all Orc clients high-performance connectivity to Borsa İstanbul
Omni Partners Omni Macro Fund was up 4.9 per cent MTD as of Friday 21 August and the London and Irvine, California-based hedge fund manager is expecting further gains from moves at the beginning this week.
Since inception in 2007 the fund, which focuses on pursuing thematic and tactical opportunities in liquid products (FX, Commodities, Equity Indices and Rates), has produced an annualised return of 12.5 per cent.
Part of the Omni Macro Fund’s strategy involves pursuing fundamental mispricings with inherent convexity. Two of the themes the fund has been pursuing this year are known to be the slowdown
This extract from the Preqin Investor Outlook: Alternative Assets, H2 2015 analyses the responses gathered in Preqin’s latest round of investor interviews to find out what investors in private equity believe are the biggest issues they face at present.
Preqin’s recent survey exposed valuations, deal flow and fee pressure as some of the biggest challenges investors face while seeking to operate an effective private equity portfolio. While regulation has been cited as a key issue by over a third of LPs surveyed, it seems a large proportion of investors are yet to adjust their private equity investment plans in light
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