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Credit Suisse and UBS have been named the 2010 Greenwich share leaders in European equity trading, with each firm boasting a market share in excess of 11 per cent of overall institutional trading volume in European stocks.
These two firms were also named Greenwich quality leaders in European equity trading, along with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank.
Greenwich says competition for trading business in European equities is intensifying after a number of major brokers invested in the business just before an unexpected decline in institutional commission brokerage payments on trades of European stocks.
The strong recovery in
- 05/09/2010
With recent reports and individual commentators suggesting that US pension fund allocations into alternative investment vehicles will rise from their current three pe
- 05/09/2010
This week’s spotlight is on Frankfurt-based Tungsten Capital Management and their market neutral absolute return PRO ART ERV Fund.
- 05/09/2010
US corporate credit manager, Concerto Asset Management, has won a EUR60 million credit alpha absolute return mandate from London-based multi-manager boutique, Goodhart Partners.
- 05/09/2010
Signet, the London and Swiss-based fund of hedge funds management and advisory group, is preparing to launch the Signe
- 05/09/2010
August results show that global hedge funds, using Hedge Fund Research’s HFRX UCITS III-compliant index, made modest gains of +0.17 per cent, bringing them to +0.18 per cent YTD.
- 05/09/2010
BGC Partners, an intermediary to the wholesale financial markets, has completed its first fully electronic Euro interest rate swap transactions over its hybrid voice and electronic execution platform, BGC Trader IRS, which went live on 1 September.
BGC Trader IRS is an extension of BGC’s hybrid technology platform, which has already been deployed and used in over 50 BGC products across credit, rates, foreign exchange, equities and commodities.
The BGC Trader IRS platform incorporates the Volume Match tool, an auction-style functionality which enables customers to transact a wide range of products fully electronically.
Elie El Hayek, managing director, global head
- 05/09/2010
Returns for the Credit Suisse Liquid Alternative Beta Index suggest that hedge funds were negatively impacted by broad market sell-offs in August, although certain sectors showed resilience amid the increased market volatility.
Although the index was down 1.14 per cent in August, it outperformed the MSCI World which fell 4.03 per cent.
Helping to minimise the losses of the index was the Global Macro Liquid Index, which posted slight gains of 0.69 per cent for the month.
Despite the month’s negative returns, the index remains largely positive year-to-date with three of the four sector indices posting gains.
Merger arbitrage remains
- 05/09/2010
- 05/09/2010
KPMG has appointed James Dimech DeBono as an associate partner in its financial risk management practice.
DeBono will be responsible for setting up a team to focus on supporting investment managers, funds and other financial institutions in the preparation of valuations of their portfolios.
The team will comprise quantitative finance and valuation professionals with advanced degrees in quantitative disciplines and significant practical experience in the analysis and valuation of portfolios of “hard-to-value” and illiquid securities.
DeBono trained as an accountant and has 19 years’ advisory experience.
He joins KPMG from Duff & Phelps, where he was managing director for four
- 03/09/2010
The APAC prime brokerage division of Swiss banking giant, UBS, has been a hive of activity of late, with five new executi
- 02/09/2010
- 02/09/2010
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