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Horizon Software (Horizon), a provider of electronic trading solutions and algorithmic technology, has opened a new Singapore office to support more sales in the region. Horizon already has five clients located in Singapore and the client base is witnessing significant growth across the APAC region.
The new office, located in One Raffles Place Mall, #02-01 Singapore 048616, will focus on better serving Horizon’s clients, supporting the growing traction in the regional market and increasing Horizon’s visibility in the area.
Horizon software believes it is ideally positioned to support local players and to bring larger scale project offerings for prospects in
JonesTrading Institutional Services (JonesTrading), a global banking and brokerage firm, has formed a strategic relationship with Boldwater Partners (Boldwater) to develop its capital introduction services offering.
Nuveen Infrastructure’s Glennmont Partners, a clean energy infrastructure manager, has launched its energy transition enhanced credit II strategy (ETEC II) after raising €250 million, for investments in renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure assets.
The new strategy will draw on the experience of Glennmont’s original €200 million energy transition credit strategy which has exposure to over 150 renewable energy loans and has consistently delivered value for investors.
ETEC II will seek to capitalise on growing opportunities to support the green energy and infrastructure transition. The strategy also aims to boost the deployment of renewable technologies including both onshore and offshore wind
The winners of the inaugural Hedgeweek & Private Equity Wire European Credit Awards, which recognise excellence among private equity fund managers and service providers in Europe across a wide range of categories, have been announced.
In the ongoing bear market, hedge funds have provided their best downside protection as a proportion of broader market falls since the dotcom crash at the turn of the 21st century.
The Managed Funds Association (MFA), the trade association for the global alternative asset management industry, has announced its newly elected and appointed members of its Board of Directors for 2022-2023.
These new board members, who officially begin their term on 1 October, include top executives from leading alternative asset managers and service provider organizations.
Natalie Birrell, President, Anchorage Capital Group, LLC, currently serves as Chair of the MFA Board of Directors, and Jim Rowen, COO, Renaissance Technologies, serves as Vice-Chair. MFA’s more than 150 member firms collectively manage nearly $2.6 trillion across a diverse group of investment strategies, including
SpiderRock Technology Services, an algorithmic execution and risk management technology provider to institutional trading clients, as well as agency broker-dealer and market data provider, has deployed the Eventus Validus platform for trade surveillance, initially for the firm’s client activity in futures and options on futures contracts.
SpiderRock serves large hedge funds, bank trading desks, proprietary trading firms and other institutional clients globally with its flagship equity and options offering and now growing futures business.
Eventus is a global provider of multi-asset class trade surveillance and market risk solutions. The Validus platform is designed to be easy to deploy, customise
While allocations to alternative investments have long been a staple of endowment and pension portfolios, they have yet to penetrate the defined contribution (DC) market. However, the return profiles and unique diversification of illiquid alternatives may offer an attractive investment opportunity for DC plan participants, according to the latest Cerulli Edge – US Retirement Edition.
Daniel Small, a former fund manager at Platinum Partners, wants his conviction for rigging a bondholder vote overturned because he says prosecutors failed to prove he intended to commit a crime, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites a memo sent to the court late last week by Small’s lawyer Seth Levine as saying that his client, who was convicted of securities fraud by a jury in a Brooklyn court in August but acquitted of a wire fraud conspiracy charges, should get a new trial because the law he was accused of breaking was “too vague” and prosecutors
Crispin Odey, the founder of hedge fund Odey Asset Management and well-known donor to the Conservative party, believes it’s too early to get bullish on sterling despite the fund plugging to a record low against the dally following Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s ‘mini budget’ announcement, according to a report by MarketWatch.
