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SpiderRock Advisors (SRA), a USD1.5 billion asset management firm focused on providing customised option overlay strategies to advisers and institutions, is to begin offering option overlay strategies to clients via the Envestnet platform. Eight customisable option-based overlay strategies from SpiderRock Advisors are now available through an Envestnet custom SMA offering. SRA will offer strategies to hedge concentrated stock positions and broadly diversified portfolios, as well as income-generation strategies using put writing and call writing.
“We are pleased to have SpiderRock’s option overlay strategies on our platform,” says Jean Heath, CIMA, Head of Asset Manager Network for Envestnet. “We have seen an
The European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT and its clearing house European Commodity Clearing (ECC) have launched new local Intraday auctions in four countries: Austria, Belgium, France and the Netherlands. The first trading day was 14 October 2020. Market results are available here. These products complement the already existing local 15 minute Intraday auction in Germany, the coupled 30 minute Intraday auctions in Great Britain as well as the coupled 60 minute Intraday auctions in Switzerland.
Ralph Danielski, Chief Executive Officer of EPEX SPOT, says: “These contracts have been among the most requested innovations in our annual customer survey. Intraday auctions play
Enfusion, a provider of cloud-based investment management software and managed services, has selected Drawbridge Partners, a cybersecurity software and services firm specialising in the needs of hedge fund and private equity managers to bolster its vendor due diligence process.Enfusion will deploy the DrawbridgeConnect platform to manage third party risk and build a robust cybersecurity program that exceeds industry standards.
DrawbridgeConnect allows users to easily aggregate internal cyber risk assessment data to drive analysis, determine program strength and remediation, and create and manage a resilient program to fulfil evolving data privacy mandates, regulatory and investor demands. Firms can easily assess
Broctagon Fintech Group is parnering with Spotware, a trading solutions expert, to become a specialist provider of cTrader White Labels.Brokerages seeking to adopt Broctagon’s brokerage turnkey solutions now have a wider variety of trading platforms made available to them. In addition to the industry-popular MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5, Broctagon added Spotware’s cTrader to its repertoire of technological solutions.
Offering cTrader solutions in combination with Broctagon’s liquidity products means brokers, especially in Asia, can easily set up an accelerated cTrader White Label, fully-equipped with market-ready offerings.
This partnership will allow the introduction of more sophisticated trading tools to
Apex Group, a global financial services provider, has acquired FundRock Management Company SA and FundRock Partners Ltd (FundRock).Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Hilton Global Associates launches offering due diligence services including hedge fund manager investigations.
Arcesium, a leading global financial technology and professional services firm, has expanded its India-based operations with the addition of a new office in Bengaluru.The new Bengaluru office is expected to commence its operations in the second quarter of 2021 with 200 employees, with expected potential to grow to 500 employees over the upcoming year.
Arcesium’s Bengaluru presence will enable the firm to leverage the robust IT foundation and diverse talent pool of the “Silicon Valley of India.” The region’s remarkable personnel will join the firm’s existing roster of strong technology, management, and finance graduates from the firm’s two Hyderabad offices.
EDI has partnered with Orbit Financial Technology to launch the earning call transcript dataset for all types of investors, from long-only, proprietary to quantitative funds, from buy-side to sell-side.China is the second largest economy in the world, and its stock market capitalisation is also ranked just next to US. Due to the less matured governance and language barrier, it is difficult for foreign investors to understand China A-listed companies and the China economy in general.
Da Wei, Director at Orbit Financial Technology, says: “While earning call transcripts is more and more adopted by both quantitative and fundamental analysis as one
International asset management consultancy, MJ Hudson, has acquired Bridge Group, a funds service provider based in Ireland, conditional on Irish regulatory approval. The acquisition will build on MJ Hudson’s specialist funds operations in London, Luxembourg and Guernsey and adds a strategically important geography to the MJ Hudson network.
Bridge Group is a Dublin based provider of specialist support services to the funds sector. Founded in 2005, it offers regulatory compliance, domiciliation and risk services and is authorised to provide third party management services to both UCITS and alternative investment fund platforms (AIFM and UCITS management services, commonly referred to as a
TransFICC, a specialist provider of low-latency connectivity and workflow services for Fixed Income and Derivatives Markets, has completed a dedicated enhancement to Aeron messaging. Aeron is ideal for financial markets trading as it combines fast and reliable messaging. Designed for the Cloud or Deployed servers, Aeron is the fastest available platform, capable of managing more than 80,000 messages a second on a single thread, yet also providing a robust and reliable process.
Martin Thompson, Founder of Real Logic, developed the Aeron clustering enhancements, which allow firms to run the cluster on fewer machines, whilst also enabling fast messaging throughput – the
