Solutions
Strait Fund Services (STRAIT), a fund solutions company providing a full range of services for hedge funds, private equity funds, family offices, and other asset management firms, has incorporated Wrike’s Professional Services cloud-based project management and collaboration enterprise solution into its software suite.STRAIT will expand its robust institutional technology platform with Wrike’s automated product for collaborative project and workflow management. The Wrike Professional Services application will complement STRAIT’s core systems, creating a comprehensive, fully integrated workflow solution.
“The new normal caused by the pandemic has made technology an even more critical component of a fund administrator’s infrastructure,” saus Stacey
Systematic hedge funds, quants and algo traders now able to benefit from five years of historic Level 3 data for insights, backtesting and alpha generation, thanks to data and analytics company BMLL Technologies.As the demand for data driven insights to improve trading decisions is continuously increasing, so is the need for new, alternative and granular data sets that help industry participants navigate market volatility while maintaining a competitive advantage. However, the technical lift and scalable compute power required to ingest huge amounts of data and derive meaningful insights is significant. To achieve these insights, a large proportion of quants spend
ARK36 has launched as an actively managed investment fund, focused on the cryptocurrency markets, delivering a risk-adjusted exposure to crypto-assets for professional investors. The fund is regulated as an Alternative Investment Fund with Limited Number of Persons (AIFLNP) by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, (CySEC), is based in Larnaca, Cyprus, and has appointed Grant Thornton Cyprus as fund administrators.
Even during a global pandemic, expansive economic policies are pushing the equities and commodities markets higher, forcing investors to look to minimise their exposure to the rising inflation shown by major fiat currencies. As a licensed AIFLNP, ARK36’s focus on
TORA has integrated its order execution management system (OEMS) with MTS BondsPro, MTS Markets International, Inc’s (MMI) ATS. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Hedge fund managers are growing more comfortable with moving data to the cloud in order to enhance operational value, but find data management their greatest challenge as well as their top spending priority for the year ahead. That’s according to a new survey of 56 hedge fund managers by investment management technology provider Enfusion, which reveals the state of cloud in the industry, managers’ system preferences and hosting decisions, data management challenges, as well as the lessons traditional asset managers can learn from cloud-based hedge funds.
“The shift in acceptance and adoption of cloud-based technology marks an inflection point for
Options, a leading provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has achieved the prestigious Microsoft Cloud Platform Gold Partner Status. In doing so, Options joins the top 1 per cent of Microsoft partners worldwide.
A joint bid by the New Zealand Exchange (NZX) and the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has been selected to develop and operate the managed auction service for the New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme (NZ ETS) – one of the Government’s main tools for meeting domestic and international climate policy targets.NZX Chief Executive, Mark Peterson, says the successful bid to the Ministry for the Environment showcased the value of bringing together the deep experience and capabilities of NZX and EEX to implement and operate a solution tailored to meet the needs of New Zealand and NZ ETS participants – and aligned
Chronicle Software (Chronicle), a multi-asset low latency trading software provider, has expanded its global footprint with an office in Singapore to serve as an additional local base to support these requirements across the region.In line with the region’s rapid development, the diverse currency markets in Asia are continuing to show strong growth. Over the last four years, Chronicle has seen increasing demand from local trading venues and market participants needing to build low latency, high performance trading capability to capitalise on these opportunities.
Chronicle combines fast, reliable and scalable low latency trading software with the commercial model that passes
Mercury Derivatives Trading, a global futures proprietary trading firm with more than 500 traders operating in markets on six continents, has deployed Eventus Systems’ Validus platform for trade surveillance.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
The quality of research skills among hedge funds and other investment managers is closely tied to their ability to generate alpha in portfolios, a new deep-dive industry study has found.
Inalytics, a UK-based research outfit that aims to identify and benchmark investment skills for institutional investors, probed the connection between research capability and alpha generation using its database of 370 active equity portfolios and 26 fixed income credit portfolios.
The study split the portfolios into two groups: those with positive and those with negative alpha. It tracked opening buys – the first time a manager adds a new stock to the
