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Alternative data specialist QuantCube Technology, has added four new real-time economic indicators to the QuantCube Macroeconomic Intelligence Platform.
The indicators are:
Urban growth index – measuring development in cities and urban areas over time;
NO2 pollution index – tracking human activity by comparing average nitrogen dioxide produced across different regions;
Water stress index – monitoring water surface fluctuations to pinpoint the likely occurrence of drought and water shortages;
Agricultural index – observing agricultural land usage to help predict changes in agricultural yields.
“Over the last two years we have been working closely with the European Space Agency (ESA) on
The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index decreased to 110.5 in November, a drop of 3.6 points from October’s revised reading of 114.1.
The decrease was led by North American ICI, which dropped 5.3 points to 108.7. Asian ICI was up a more modest 4.8 points to 108.1, and European ICI ticked down 1.4 points to 95.3.
The Investor Confidence Index was developed at State Street Associates, State Street Global Markets’ research and advisory services business, in partnership with FDO Partners. It measures investor confidence or risk appetite quantitatively by analysing the actual buying and selling patterns of institutional investors.
In the highly competitive hedge fund community, the most productive use of information and data drives success. Managers must efficiently collect and process data to ensure its accuracy. The old saying, “GIGO” (garbage in-garbage out) is a constant risk. This is particularly true when it comes to unstructured data that is increasingly used in investment analysis and required for accurate investment recordkeeping.
Ocorian, a financial services group and provider of fund, corporate, capital markets and private client services has appointed Michelle Merola as Business Development Director.
Ocorian has more than 25 years’ experience in the employee benefits sector. The team provide tailor-made solutions in employee participation for a large portfolio of FTSE 100, 250, 350 and AIM-listed companies, multinational corporations, leading financial institutions, and smaller, often private equity-backed private companies.
Merola will work closely with Ocorian’s existing employee incentive plan clients to ensure service excellence and will proactively develop its client book within private equity. She will also further extend Ocorian’s scope
Gulf Capital, a thematic alternative investment firm in Asia, has released a white paper which outlines the significant future growth of the Asian economies and the growth in the intra-regional trade and investment flows between West Asia, including the GCC, and East Asia.
With Asia’s GDP expected to grow by USD22 trillion by 2050, it will account for 60 per cent of the global GDP, according to the paper “Bridging West and East Asia: The Investment Case for Ascending Asia”. Asia is the largest and most populous continent on earth.
The study, jointly published by Gulf Capital and Dr Parag
3D Investment Partners, one of Toshiba’s largest shareholders, has sent a letter to the Strategic Review Committee (the SRC) and the Board of Directors (the Board) of Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba or the Company) (6502.T).
In the letter, 3D indicates that it believes the SRC’s review of strategic alternatives was incomplete and inadequate and calls upon the SRC and the Board to perform a fully informed, objective review of all of Toshiba’s strategic alternatives.
3D noted that it does not believe that the SRC’s plan to split Toshiba into three different companies is optimal or likely to create value for Toshiba’s
Aztec Group is to deploy Fenergo’s cloud-native, Software as a Service (SaaS) CLM.
The independent fund and corporate services provider will leverage Fenergo’s AWS-powered multi-tenant SaaS CLM solution across its offices in the Channel Islands, Europe and the US to digitalise and streamline onboarding journeys and due diligence processes for anti-money laundering (AML), KYC and regulatory compliance. By replacing legacy systems and existing processes for onboarding and compliance, Fenergo enables Aztec Group to onboard investors faster while significantly enhancing the user, client and investor experience.
Aztec Group, which specialises in alternative asset classes and administers more than 450 funds
Increasingly sophisticated fraudsters are relieving capital-raising projects of USD100,000s through fee-frauds, according to Private Debt Investor (PDI), which caters for private debt lenders including hedge, alternative investment and other private capital funds worldwide.
Research by the Project Finance Exchange (PFX) has revealed that the global private capital market has grown to USD20.35 trillion liquidity managed and allocated through over 125,000 funds worldwide (sources: Cap-Gemini, industry associations and institutions). But many of the private capital funds populating the market are now having their identities cloned and exploited by fraudsters who are cheating companies out of USD100,000s.
Private capital is having
The use of data within the hedge fund industry has grown exponentially over the past decade, with fund managers from across the spectrum increasingly turning to ever-more complex datasets in a bid to stay ahead of the competition.
Acuiti has launched the Proprietary Trading Management Insight Report, a new product aimed at senior executives from the global proprietary trading community.
The report, which is produced in partnership with Avelacom, is designed to provide senior proprietary executives with a benchmark of how their peers are approaching key operational challenges. It also contains information on a series of metrics such as exchange growth and new contract launches.
Acuiti has built and continues to grow a network of senior proprietary trading executives from across the globe. Each quarter, network members can suggest questions and topics to be addressed in the report.
