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ARQA Technologies, the independent financial markets software provider, is to provide clients with a consolidated financial data feed provided by S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions.
The provider of next generation trading products will address the growing demand from ARQA clients for differentiated low-latency data at different speeds.
S&P Capital IQ Real-Time Solutions is one of ARQA Technologies’ long-standing partners in the provision of fast market data delivery. The global ConsolidatedFEED, an additional offering from the firm, is designed for investors, sales/traders and risk managers, as well as electronic quote and news applications. The end-to-end market data feed is
Asoka Wöhrmann, Co-CIO at DeAWM, on the US-Government-shutdown and debt-ceiling…
The budget and debt-ceiling battle in the United States has the world holding its breath. The fronts between the Republicans and the Democrats seem to have hardened. At the same time, a ceasefire must be reached by 17 October. This is the date the United States is expected to hit the USD16.7 trillion debt ceiling.
After that point, the United States will not be able to pay its bills. Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management (DeAWM) has prepared three scenarios outlining the further development of the crisis and its implications –
Investors have allocated nearly USD26bn to securitised credit strategies since the financial crisis, including USD3.9bn in 2013, according to an eVestment report on hedge fund investment in securitised credit markets.
The universe, which includes ABS, MBS, and CDOs, has produced average annual returns in excess of 25 per cent making it one of the greatest runs for both investors and managers the hedge fund industry has produced in its history.
In the 56 month span beginning January 2009, investor flows into the universe was positive nearly 70 per cent of the time. In the last nine months flows
The IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF (QAI), the first hedge fund-style exchange-traded fund and the industry’s largest alternative ETF, has topped USD500m in assets.
This represents a growth rate in excess of 50 per cent year to date.
"We are seeing tremendous interest in QAI from the financial advisor community, who increasingly are using the fund as their core hedge fund portfolio holding, while QAI also is being added to ETF model portfolios throughout the industry," says Adam Patti, IndexIQ’s chief executive officer. "In many cases, QAI is used to provide the liquid alternatives allocation in these models,
The trustee of the GBP145m Midcounties Co-operative Pension Scheme has chosen Towers Watson to manage its investment portfolio on a fiduciary management basis, following a competitive tender.
Towers Watson’s delegated investment service provides an integrated approach to managing assets against liabilities for all sizes of pension funds in the context of a journey plan to full funding. The company is one of the world largest fiduciary managers and now has delegated responsibility for around USD60bn of assets worldwide.
Chris Ford (pictured), EMEA head of investment at Towers Watson, says: “We are delighted that the Midcounties trustee has appointed
HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) has appointed Mary Bowers as a senior global high yield fund manager in its global fixed income team, based in New York.
The team manages approximately USD3bn in the high yield capability. Bowers will manage the HSBC GIF Global High Yield Bond Fund and the recently launched HSBC GIF Global Short Duration High Yield Bond Fund which have USD1.1bn and USD20m in assets respectively.
Bowers joins from Aberdeen Asset Management/Artio Global Investors (formerly Julius Baer Asset Management) in New York, where she had ten years of experience in global high yield portfolio management, co-managing approximately
Institutional investors across the world are most concerned about tail risk and rising interest rates as they begin to position their portfolios for the end of ultra-loose monetary policy in developed markets.
That is one of the key findings from Allianz Global Investors’ survey of nearly 400 senior decision makers at institutional investors from 41 countries around the world.
While only a minority of respondents expect interest rates to rise towards their long-term historical averages before 2015, rising interest rates and tail risk are seen as most prevalent economic risk factors affecting investment performance over the next three
Peppercomm Strategic Communications has acquired Walek & Associates, an independent financial, capital markets and investor relations firm.
The move combines Peppercomm’s full suite of integrated marketing and communications offerings, including creative design, digital, social media, experiential and strategic licensing, with Walek’s concentrated expertise in asset management, capital markets and investor relations.
The announcement comes on the heels of Peppercomm’s recent acquisition of Janine Gordon & Associates and the formation of JGAPeppercomm, a specialty group focused on the consumer lifestyle and non-profit sectors. Together, these two acquisitions are part of Peppercomm’s move to deepen the firm’s expertise in key
Deutsche Börse will act as the exclusive licensor of Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) market data and information products to all international clients.
The new cooperation will benefit existing and potential customers by giving them access to both exchanges’ market data products under a single license agreement. A signing ceremony was held in Frankfurt on 2 October 2013.
The partnership also allows Deutsche Börse to deepen its client service capabilities in important Asian markets such as India, as well as strengthen the strategic alliance between the two exchanges.
“By partnering with BSE we give customers access to the
EDHEC-Risk Institute and Lyxor are launching a three-year research chair entitled “Risk Allocation Solutions” to develop academic insights that can be used towards the design of high-performance multi-asset investment solutions, based on specific investor needs.
Year one will focus on the next generation of risk parity, which may suffer from one major shortcoming, namely the fact that it is not explicitly sensitive to changes in economic conditions.
To find optimal ways to allocate risk budgets in investors’ portfolio construction, EDHEC-Risk Institute will in particular develop a dynamic risk allocation approach through three major topics:
• Extending standard
