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Activist hedge fund CIAM says SCOR SE’s board of directors can “no longer ignore” shareholder discontent over governance practices, after the French reinsurance firm’s annual general meeting registered sizeable opposition to the board’s proposed remuneration policies.
Sucden Financial, the global multi-asset execution, clearing and liquidity provider, has partnered with Refinitiv to distribute market insights and premium in-depth investment research via their Eikon platform.
In this 5th and final podcast of the series, Steven Unzicker, Founder of ANZU Research, SEI’s Ross Ellis and Michael Neumann, Head of AI Quantitative Strategies and Partner at Arabesque, discuss how the decentralised model – as characterised by Uber and Airbnb – could inform the future of fund management.
Event driven hedge funds are making hay amid soaring levels of corporate activity, with new stats showing these managers raked in their best first-quarter returns in almost 30 years, as a number of newly-launched strategies look to get a piece of the M&A action.
Event driven managers – which seek to capitalise on stock mispricings and other valuation anomalies stemming from mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, takeovers and other corporate events using activist, merger arbitrage and special situations strategies – posted a first quarter composite return of 7.3 per cent, according to new research by bfinance, their strongest Q1 showing since
Symphony, a financial markets’ infrastructure and technology platform, has established a strategic partnership with fintech firm Saphyre, to integrate patented AI technology into pre and post-trade workflows for front, middle and back office teams.
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The Project Finance Exchange (PFX), a ‘closed’ marketplace where capital-raising construction and infrastructure projects can connect and engage seamlessly with private fund managers, has grown to over USD30 billion aggregate capital available within its first three months of opening in April.
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Quantitative traders, researchers and systematic investors have traditionally mined historical financial data, seeking out repeating patterns around which to build their trading strategies, investment theses and fund portfolios.
MSCI Inc, a provider of decision support tools and services for the global investment community, has launched the MSCI Crowding Model solution to help institutional investors navigate crowded markets by providing high quality, timely information and data to inform their decision making in achieving their investment objectives.
The MSCI Crowding Model is built into an easy-to-use dashboard and helps identify crowded, neutral or uncrowded scenarios across individual securities, factors and hedge fund holdings. This enables investors to assess their own exposure to crowdedness and gain insight as to how the rest of the market is positioned.
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Man Group has a selected Salerio, the post-execution trade processing solution from corfinancial, to assist in the migration from the OASYS US securities trade processing flows to the DTCC’s Institutional Trade Processing (ITP) CTM (Central Trade Manager) platform.
Last year, DTCC announced that it would decommission OASYS on 31 October 2021.
Man Group has been automating key post-trade processes, including trade confirmation and settlement for international securities, for many years using Salerio. It was, therefore, the natural solution to manage the migrating US trade confirmation workflow.
Salerio provides seamless connectivity to DTCC’s CTM platform and Man Group was
Brave New Coin, a data analytics and research company backed by Techemy, is to partner with QuantHouse, a global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including innovative market data services, an algo trading platform, and infrastructure products and part of Iress (IRE.ASX), to makes Brave New Coin’s data feeds, undices and analytics available to QuantHouse customers.
Upon launch, QuantHouse will feature Brave New Coin’s high-speed single asset indices for top ten crypto assets, plus the Brave New Coin DeFi Index.
Trusted by leading financial institutions, Brave New Coin’s enterprise-grade cryptocurrency market data solutions deliver actionable insights around trading, valuations, portfolio
