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Macro hedge fund Caxton Associates is said to be bucking an industry trend by raising fees rather than reducing them, according to a report by the Financial Times (FT).
FE Investments has launched a new range of responsible investment reports as the next step in leading the discretionary fund management industry to make responsible investments easily integrated into advice propositions and client management.
The leading MPS provider has launched the reports on all of its managed portfolio ranges and includes ESG reporting, data and other valuable insights, which help advisers explain the exposure risks associate with portfolios, funds and underlying holdings in clear and simple terms. Through the reports, the investor will be able to compare portfolios on a like for like basis and determine which model best suits
Digital token trading platform Bitfinex has added three new currency spot pairs against Tether tokens (USDt or EURt), GBP/USDt, GBP/EURt and JPY/USDt.
Trading of GBP/USDt, GBP/EURt and JPY/USDt commenced on 17/02/22 at 10:00 AM UTC.
Bitfinex is leveraging its position as one-stop shop for digital token trading offering a variety of services, including margin trading with up to 10x leverage.
Veteran fund manager David Roberts is to retire from fund management in August. This comes after a career of managing fixed income funds and investment teams that began in 1988.
Roberts joined Liontrust in January 2018 along with Phil Milburn and Donald Phillips to create the Liontrust Global Fixed Income team. Since their launch in 2018, Roberts has co-managed with Milburn and Phillips the Liontrust Strategic Bond, GF Strategic Bond and GF Absolute Return Bond funds. He has also been assisting Milburn and Phillips in managing the Liontrust GF High Yield Bond fund over the past four years.
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GoldenSource, a leading independent provider of Enterprise Data Management (EDM) and Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, has integrated FactSet content into its ‘GoldenSource ESG Impact” product and will be listed on the Open:FactSet Marketplace, a platform for premier data applications and workflow solutions tailored for investment professionals.
Integrating FactSet content, including Truvalue Labs ESG data, not only eases current daily operations for investment managers, it also puts them in the best position to thrive under evolving ESG requirements and regulations such as the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).
‘GoldenSource ESG Impact’ is uniquely positioned to handle interlinked reference
Rimes, a provider of data management and investment intelligence solutions to investors and asset managers, has appointed Renaud Larzilliere as Chief Operating Officer with immediate effect.
Larzilliere leads the sales engineering, implementation, client services and enterprise project management teams, and is a member of the Executive Committee. He will continue to lead the Rimes technology group, of which he’s been the CTO for the five years.
Quincy Data, powered by McKay Brothers, has added MEMX market data to its New Jersey Metro Quincy Raw Data (QRD) service.
MEMX data is distributed via QRD at the lowest latency to key US equity trading hubs in Mahwah and Carteret, NJ. Since its launch in 2019, QRD has been adopted by banks, hedge funds and market-makers and has significantly levelled the playing field for ultra-low latency equity exchange market data.
Quincy Data’s NJ Metro raw data services offer full market data feeds from ten major US equity exchanges. QRD provides stock and ETF market data in native exchange
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has launched DTCC Treasury Kinetics, a new service that provides access to critical US treasury transaction data, increasing transparency into the repurchase agreement (repo) market.
Leveraging data from the Government Securities Division of DTCC’s subsidiary, Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), this new service provides a daily summary of aggregated and anonymised trade activity including number of trades, volumes, dollar amounts and rates for delivery vs payment (DVP) repo. On average, FICC matches, nets and settles repo transactions valued at more than USD3 trillion dollars each day.
DTCC Treasury Kinetics is the latest
The global pandemic continues to significantly impact investment strategies among global asset managers, according to new research from Clearwater Analytics (CWAN).
A poll of over 140 asset managers and owners representing more than USD5 trillion in AUM showed more than a third of investors investment strategies will change this year in response to Covid. The study asked how investment strategies had changed since the start of the pandemic, and how this compares to what they have planned for 2022 in the wake of the recent omicron surge.
At a macro level, 58 per cent of companies reported making changes
Options Technology, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has achieved compliance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) ISAE3402, SOC1, SOC2 and SOC3 standards for the twelfth consecutive year.
In 2011, Options became one of the first cloud infrastructure providers to achieve SOC 2 Type II compliance. The firm has continued to meet the latest AICPA examinations each year since. Audit compliance attests that Options meets the latest information security, data availability, and privacy standards.
