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Sapient Global Markets and The Energy Data Hub (EDH) have launched an energy markets benchmarking service available to EDH platform users.
This service delivers insight into global energy transactions in order to support risk management and trade strategy.
It allows users to measure company performance against the broader market and identify contrasts in market region or location, as well as transaction type or class. The service will also provide energy market participants with the first ever set of relative market metrics, including market size, volume rankings, volatility rankings, most liquid markets, and most liquid transactions data.
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Liquid Holdings Group has launched version 3.6 of its Liquid platform, which integrates order and execution management with real-time risk, reporting, shadow NAV, and managed services in the cloud.
The updated platform now delivers a more comprehensive toolkit of pre-trade risk and compliance controls, more robust options trading capabilities, and expanded global equities markets coverage.
With pre-trade risk controls becoming a necessity for hedge fund managers, the Liquid platform provides a fully controlled environment that ensures trading activity does not breach investment mandates prior to placing a trade. In version 3.6, Liquid’s sub-millisecond pre-trade risk engine now includes net
Fewer than four in ten of those working in banks, asset managers and hedge funds believe investments in corporate tax policy have a significant impact on reputation, according to a new report from Kinetic Partners.
Despite this, the firm’s 2014 Global Regulatory Outlook (GRO) report says tax is to be a “defining issue for the remainder of the decade”.
The survey reveals that while large majorities believe investment in independent governance (84 per cent) and internal compliance arrangements (93 per cent) strengthens firms’ reputations, only 38 per cent of respondents think the same of tax policy investments.
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Clearstream has opened up settlement to Russian corporate bonds its direct link to the Russian central securities depository, the National Settlement Depository (NSD).
In addition, Clearstream will work with its international central securities depository (ICSD) counterpart to ensure an effective linkage – known as the Bridge – between the two ICSDs.
The Bridge enables customers to easily settle transactions between accounts at the two ICSDs and will thus help increase liquidity flow in the Russian market.
The introduction of settlement for corporate Russian bonds, coupled with a firm commitment to establish the Bridge between the ICSDs in the
In Q4 2013 the alternative UCITS sector grew by 21 per cent compared to Q4 2012, showing continued demand and investment in alternative strategies, according to the Alceda Quarterly UCITS Review.
Strong equity markets, rallying into the year end, supported the demand for alternative UCITS strategies and drove the Q4 performance up 2.7 per cent, bringing year to date gains to six per cent.
Tracking the Absolute Hedge Alternative UCITS Index, which encompasses 468 funds, assets under management (AUM) reached a total of EUR159.4bn, an increase in AUM of 3.2 per cent on the previous quarter.
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Singapore Exchange (SGX) is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its global benchmark SICOM Rubber Futures this year, on the back of multiple records achieved in 2013.
From production to trading, rubber had its roots firmly planted within Singapore from the early half of the 1900s.
In 1994, the Singapore Commodity Exchange (SICOM) was formed to assume the role of the Rubber Association of Singapore, which was the price discovery centre for the natural rubber trade.
In these two decades, the SICOM Rubber Futures contracts served the trading and hedging needs of physical market participants.
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Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS) has added Morningstar CISDM data to its data offerings.
WRDS, a part of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, provides instant access to over 200 terabytes of data across finance, marketing, and economic disciplines for over 30,000 users in 32 countries.
The Morningstar CISDM Database allows for tracking of qualitative and quantitative information for more than 6,000 hedge funds, funds of funds and CTAs since 1994. In addition to the current funds, Morningstar CISDM includes a graveyard database of dead funds, providing robust information for over 13,000 inactive hedge funds.
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Gary D Halbert has acquired certain assets of active money manager database Theta Investment Research of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
The new firm, Theta Research, will be based in Austin, Texas as are Halbert’s other interests, namely Halbert Wealth Management, ProFutures, and Forecasts & Trends E-Letter.
Since 2000, Theta has been a source of performance information for active money managers. Offering subscriptions via the Internet, Theta publishes information on managers and their models on both a daily and monthly basis, allowing for the analysis of style, risk and performance.
For investment managers, Theta’s database will provide third-party verification of the
Singapore Exchange (SGX) has welcomed SAC Capital as a full sponsor on Catalist, its sponsor-supervised board for growth companies.
SAC is an existing continuing sponsor on Catalist. As a full sponsor, SAC will be authorised to sponsor IPOs on Catalist and oversee the company’s compliance with SGX listing rules.
The addition of SAC as full sponsor brings Catalist’s Sponsor pool to 10 full sponsor (with 52 registered professionals) and 7 continuing sponsors (with 22 registered professionals).
Currently, Catalist is home to a total of 141 listed companies.
Schroders Chief Economist and Strategist Keith Wade updates us on his thoughts on the pace of the current US economic growth…
The US economy has strong momentum having shrugged off the government shutdown, and leading indicators suggest that growth will remain robust in the first quarter of 2014. Risks are still skewed to the upside of our 3% real GDP forecast with signs that capex may also join the party as shareholders become more positive toward companies who invest.
Stronger growth will bring lower unemployment and our view is that the US Federal Reserve will be surprised by the pace of
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