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With fund managers’ demand for increased access to larger datasets, the opportunity arises for service providers in the outsourcing space to enhance these already-expanding datasets. The increased use of data and evolving use cases are leading to a shift towards clients’ front office functions.
Libby Vanderkaay (pictured), Senior Vice President and Head of Account Management at Arcesium, says: “Historically, we’ve managed a great deal of middle- and back-office data for our clients, so consuming data for the front office is simply a natural extension of our capabilities. We see this development as an opportunity to have a real single source of
By A Paris – They say you should never let a serious crisis go to waste and the latest wave of turbulence caused by the global Covid-19 pandemic is certainly testing the hedge fund industry to understand how to make the best of a difficult situation.
The fortunes of hedge funds have been mired in chaos. The HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, lost 7.76 per cent by the last week of March yet the in the same breath, the Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index registered its strongest outperformance relative to underlying markets since October 2008, outperforming the MSCI AC World Index
Trading platform BidFX has gained access to frontier markets by adding global markets banking specialist ICBC Standard as a new liquidity provider.
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In a recent white paper entitled Evolution in Asset Management, SEI pointed out that 70 per cent of US fund managers are currently looking to deploy advanced analytics in the front-office. The field of data science and machine learning-based data analysis is helping to transform how fund managers think about data to gain a competitive edge.
TORA, a provider of a cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS), has partnered with risk & compliance platform provider, Imagine Software to create a front-to-back end trading solution for hedge funds & asset managers.The affiliation between the two companies’ offerings will provide the strongest universal multi-asset front-to-back trading solution. The two systems will work together to generate a new best-in-class leader across the value chain to create a truly integrated trading platform.
TORA first established the industry’s first cloud-based OEMS over 13 years ago providing clients with state-of-the-art trading tools to assure best execution and manage complex trading
The Hedge Fund Association (HFA), an international nonprofit trade and nonpartisan lobbying organisation, has announced the results of its 2020 Global Board of Directors election. HFA members re-elected Camille Clemons, Jennifer Keeney and Emily Slocum, and elected Jill Calton, Lauri Goodwyn, James Koutoulas, Alexander Reyes and Joshua Stone. All HFA Directors are volunteers serving for up to two consecutive three-year terms.
Jill Calton, UMB Fund Services
Camille Clemons, Cohen & Company
Lauri Goodwyn, Seward & Kissel LLP
Jennifer Keeney, BNY Mellon Wealth Management
James Koutoulas, Typhon Capital Management
Alexander Reyes, Citrin Cooperman
Emily Slocum, GQR Global Markets
Joshua Stone, FundsLawyer PLLC
The recent equity market rally is unlikely to stave off the “devastating” economic impact of Covid-19 this year, according to Absolute Return Partners’ founder and CIO Niels Clemen Jensen.
More than half of hedge fund managers are now using alternative data to gain a competitive edge, according to a wide-ranging new study into alt data trends by the Alternative Investment Management Association and fund services provider SS&C.
The report, ‘Casting the Net: How Hedge Funds are Using Alternative Data’, explores the ways in which hedge funds now utilise alternative datasets – defined as unconventional, non-market and non-traditional economic and financial information, such as satellite imagery, social media trends and weather patterns – in their businesses.
The study, jointly published by AIMA and SS&C today, quizzed some 100 hedge fund
RISE Wealth Technologies, a Munich-based AI investment technology firm – has announced a second month of strong performance for its flagship Volatile Special Opportunities Program (VSOP) strategy.
Up in April by 2.27 per cent and up by 21.83 per cent for the year, VSOP entails a systematic multi-strategy approach in the S&P 500 index volatility market with a real-money track record dating back to July 2016.
The fund is composed of a Balanced Portfolio consisting of S&P 500 futures and treasuries with a duration risk of circa five years. It also trades overlay strategies on situational patterns. While the fund
Pragmatism in the face of uncertainty
Pragmatism in the face of uncertainty