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At a time when the outlook for fixed income is so uncertain, Aquila Capital intends to launch a Risk Parity Bond strategy. This is the first strategy of its kind in the market, and is designed to provide fixed income investors with a truly diversified and liquid counterbalance to their existing exposures, which may be perceived as vulnerable should fixed income markets reverse.
The objective is to offer investors long term stable returns regardless of the twists and turns in the economic and fixed income cycles.
The strategy blends the diverse characteristics of the uncorrelated asset types within the
Hedge fund manager Man Group has combined two of its hedge fund units and made changes to the company’s management structure ahead of Emmanuel Roman (pictured) taking over from Peter Clarke as chief executive officer on 28 February.
According to reports, Luke Ellis is to become president of the company with responsibility for its three main investment divisions, FRM, GLG and ALM, which runs the group’s largest hedge fund AHL.
Sandy Rattray, meanwhile, will replace Tim Wong as chief executive of AHL, with Wong taking up the role of executive chairman of the flagship quantitative division.
AHL, which saw assets
Cayman Finance has issued a statement regarding the US Senate Finance Commission confirmation hearing of Jack Lew…
At the recent United States (US) Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing Mr Jack Lew, President Obama’s nominee for Treasury Secretary, was asked about his investment in a Cayman Islands (Cayman) investment fund domiciled in Ugland House.
At this juncture, it is perhaps worth asking why people are still surprised that Americans including both Republicans and Democrats have money invested in Cayman investment funds, when it is certainly the case that all Americans who have a pension fund will likely have their money
Pine River Capital Management has deployed its Flex Trade Systems’ FlexTRADER EMS to facilitate trading for equities, FX and listed derivatives.
“In this business, one has to continue to innovate or die,” says Scott Reinhart, head of Pine River Capital Management’s Hong Kong office. “Trading strategies that might have been successful five years ago simply might no longer be attractive. FlexTrade’s solutions have helped us to expand our existing strategies and quickly launch new ones across multiple asset classes and geographic regions.”
As part of the deployment, Pine River is live with FlexTRADER for equities, FX, equity options trading and
Scipion Capital, the African commodities investment specialist, has strengthened its London office with three appointments.
The new hires come during a period of significant growth for the firm, and in anticipation of major new investment in 2013.
The increased global popularity of commodities trade finance as an investment strategy has led to a significant uptick in interest in the firm’s Commodities Trade Finance (CTF) Fund. The fund, which finances trade in soft and mineral commodities in Africa, has generated positive returns in every month since inception.
The fund’s track record and the growing popularity of CTF as a
SYZ Asset Management, the institutional asset management arm of the Swiss banking Group SYZ & Co, is now offering management of Japanese equities as part of its range of institutional strategies.
To implement this strategy, SYZ Asset Management has recruited Joël Le Saux, a Japanese market specialist.
Offered to institutional investors in the form of segregated mandates, this expertise will also be accessible to a broader public via the Oyster Japan Opportunities fund, which will be managed by SYZ Asset Management. This new asset class strengthens the SYZ & Co Group’s expertise in international equities and is an addition to
The turnover of investment certificates and leverage products traded on the European stock exchanges in the fourth quarter of 2012 was EUR20.7bn, or 13.4 per cent lower than in the third quarter of the year.
In year-on-year terms, the decline amounted to 21.9 per cent. This is shown by the latest market data collected by the European Structured Investment Products Association (Eusipa) from its members and analysed by Derivative Partners Research.
Six national associations contributed to the market statistics: Zertifikate Forum Austria (ZFA), Association Française des Produits Dérivés de Bourse (afpdb), Deutscher Derivate Verband (DDV), Associazione Italiana Certificati e Prodotti
Eurex Exchange has received confirmation from the South Korean Financial Services Commission to offer its full suite of products in South Korea without objection.
Eurex has already established a cooperation with the Korea Exchange (KRX), the Eurex/KRX Link.
The new possibility of a direct membership will further enhance the Eurex/KRX cooperation and strengthen the ties between Korean and German financial markets.
“We are very delighted by the Korean regulator’s decision to allow Eurex to offer direct access to market participants located in Korea. This is an exciting opportunity to admit additional customers to our robust and reliable network and offer
Torstone Technology, a provider of securities and derivatives processing software to the global financial markets, has released its OData (Open Data Protocol) interface to provide customers with an enhanced analytics and reporting capability by improving the integration between Inferno and other enterprise systems.
Inferno is a post-trade securities and derivatives processing software service meeting the needs of regional and mid-sized investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds and brokers for clearing, settlement and integrated accounting across multiple assets, currencies and geographies.
OData is a web-based protocol originally proposed by Microsoft to allow open access to data across multiple IT platforms. In
QuantHouse, S&P Capital IQ’s real time operation, has partnered with the European arm of Russian financial institution BCS Financial Group to launch low latency market data for MICEX-RTS – Russia’s main equity market.
In addition, BCS is leveraging its trading infrastructure and advanced algo-trading development tools.
There is established and long-term demand among European buy-side firms, hedge funds and specialist trading firms to access the Russian market. Coupled with this, is the increasing investment in smart and cost-effective technology to exploit arbitrage opportunities that exist between the prices of securities listed on multiple venues.
“As a result of
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