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Lyxor Asset Management is reinforcing its cross asset research team with the appointment of Rob Koyfman as senior strategist.
Based in New York, Koyfman reports to Jeanne Asseraf-Bitton, global head of cross asset research.
Koyfman’s main responsibility will be to further expand the current cross asset research. His contributions will strengthen the top-down input into investment decisions by Lyxor’s portfolio managers.
Koyfman started his career at Goldman Sachs in 2002 where he held several roles including REITs research, portfolio strategy research and macro trading. Koyfman has also worked at Caxton Associates as equity strategist and most recently
Jeremy Hester has been named as head of sales for Northern Trust’s global fund services business in the UK, responsible for offering investment operations outsourcing, fund administration and the full range of asset servicing solutions, to investment managers domiciled in the UK.
Hester joined Northern Trust in 1994 and was most recently head of sales for Northern Trust in Australia and New Zealand, where he was instrumental in growing the bank’s client base in the region.
His previous role in Northern Trust’s Melbourne office has been assumed by Angelo Calvitto who is also responsible for client relationship management
EDHEC-Risk Institute has launched its smart beta index design and production activity, ERI Scientific Beta. The aim is to revolutionise the index world through, firstly, a new approach to smart beta investing called Smart Beta 2.0, which enables investors to choose and control the risks of these new benchmarks, and secondly, total transparency on the methodologies and compositions of the indices available on the platform.
Through its More for Less initiative, ERI Scientific Beta intends to promote a more transparent and efficient index market for the benefit of investors.
ERI Scientific Beta is taking initiatives that are at odds with those
SmartStream Technologies’ TLM Trade Process Management solution, which addresses the post-trade allocation, confirmation, clearing and settlement processes, now fully supports SWIFT’s Global Electronic Trade Communication (GETC) solution.
GETC uses well established SWIFT ISO 15022 messages to provide a standardised process for matching fixed income and equities trades for both buy and sell-side firms.
The post-trade world still has a large amount of manual processing and GETC enables participants to reuse their existing SWIFT infrastructure to create a standardised and automated approach to confirmation matching. GETC minimises operational risk, increases STP and significantly reduces the costs of post-trade processing.
Can Britain, like the US, successfully use the fracking technique to build energy reserves and cut costs? If so, what can be learned from the US? Eric Gordon, Energy Analyst at Brown Advisory, comments…
In the US, fracking technology has revolutionised the energy market where it has seen a stunning surge in the volume of oil produced in the last three years to the point where it is remarkably accounting for the majority of global oil production growth. The process has caused much controversy and debate over its environmental and economic impact. However, in the US, fracking remains regulated by individual
BNP Paribas Securities Services has launched its global Dealing Services solution in the UK – a new concept providing institutional investors access to a network of dealing teams using sophisticated dealing technology and covering all asset classes.
The broker neutral, institutional outsourced dealing solution is designed to meet an industry trend towards outsourcing from asset managers and owners, as they seek cost efficiencies in the face of heightened regulatory demands and increasing technology expenditure.
Carl James (pictured), managing director of BNP Paribas Dealing Services UK, says: “The raft of regulatory requirements has, and will have a dramatic impact
Prospects are clouded for Cyprus as a domicile for investment and transaction structures set up by entrepreneurs and investors from Russia and other eastern European countries such as Ukraine following a levy on bank deposits and capital controls imposed by the government as part of a package of measures to stabilise the country’s banking sector, says Olivier Sciales, founding partner, Chevalier & Sciales…
However, east European investors unsure about the long-term future of Cyprus as a financial centre have a choice of other jurisdictions within the European Union through which to channel investments either into EU countries or back into
7Hedge has launched exclusive FX services structured to provide clients in developing FX markets with dedicated access to an institutional network of Tier-1 solutions, previously reserved for global conglomerates.
Delivering foreign exchange turnkey solutions for its clients to match, gain and profit from market realities, its diverse customer base of exchanges, hedge funds, high frequency traders, ultra high net-worth individuals and corporates benefit from tailored liquidity and professional treasury solutions.
Services include FX algorithms and an extensive network of prime brokers, coupled with a dedicated expert education programme geared towards the institutional market participant.
Consulting in the
ITG, an independent execution and research broker, has launched a new hosted solution for ITG Order Management System (formerly known as Macgregor XIP).
This new web-based solution offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional OMS deployments for use by both long-only institutional investors and hedge funds.
The ITG OMS hosted solution also provides real-time market data capabilities, redundant FIX connectivity and disaster recovery functionality.
The first institutional investor to go live with the new solution is Affinity Investment Advisors.
"The hosted solution provides us with all of the functionality of ITG OMS without the need to purchase
Igor Puljic and Marjoleine van der Peet are to join the hedge funds team at Kempen Capital Management (KCM) in Amsterdam.
Puljic (36) will join KCM’s hedge funds team in May as senior portfolio manager. He has 13 years of manager selection experience. Most recently, he spent eight years at London-based Key Asset Management where he was deputy chief investment officer and portfolio manager for the firm’s flagship multi-strategy fund of hedge funds.
“I am very excited to be joining such a high quality organisation which has a strong reputation in the hedge fund industry,” he says.
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