Solutions
Iron Cove Partners (ICP) is a leading full-service national insurance brokerage firm serving the financial services industry. Headquartered in Garden City, Long Island, ICP is a trusted advisor with decades of experience and over 150 Hedge Funds as clients. ICP provides cutting edge brokerage and consulting services to some of the globes largest financial institutions.
The company provides the full spectrum of insurance products and services including Employee Benefits, Commercial Property and Casualty, Transactional Insurance as well as Private Client, Life Insurance and Estate Planning.
It specialises in meeting the unique insurance demands across all areas of the financial services industry
Pillar Capital Management (‘Pillar') was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Bermuda. The firm manages open-ended Bermuda incorporated funds invested in the global property catastrophe risk market.
The senior management team at Pillar, headed up by CEO and CIO, Stephen Velotti (pictured), has an average of 25 years' experience in the insurance linked securities marketplace. Deal access is a critical element of any successful ILS manager. In that context, last year Pillar reviewed over 1,600 opportunities with an 87 per cent declination rate, with Velotti explaining that alpha is generated from judiciously selecting the best securities on such a
Nedelma Inc is a software product solutions company. Its flagship product, The Portfolio Amalfi platform, offers multi-asset, multi-language, multi-currency dynamic reporting and data visualisation, as well as analytical capabilities to the asset management industry. Users can analyse and view data from multiple perspectives using a combination of attributes, formulas and values, with extensive options for dynamic customisation.
"Our management team has held senior positions at Goldman Sachs, UBS, GE Capital, Mitsubishi UFJ, Deutsche Bank and we apply our extensive expertise and firsthand knowledge to develop and enhance Nedelma's products," says Nedelma CEO, Michael Medvinsky.
"We saw a recurring set of
With over 1,500 employees in international locations, over 250 employees and 40 partners dedicated to the financial services practice, EisnerAmper LLP has the breadth to handle global engagements and provide comprehensive guidance and support to its roster of hedge fund clients.
EisnerAmper currently services over 1,300 hedge funds and 200 private equity/venture capital sponsors. Whomever the client, the firm always strives to speak their language and avoid using technical accounting jargon.
A “clients first” approach is central to the EisnerAmper philosophy. It is often chosen both as an alternative to “Big 4” firms as well as a supplementary advisor to
Alternative fund managers who wish to avoid the limitations of running ’40 Act mutual funds, and the risks that come with having to constantly provide daily liquidity, are turning their attention to closed-end interval funds. UMB Fund Services has a decade of experience providing turnkey solutions for managers looking for an elegant route to market.
Although not a new product innovation, interval funds and registered hedge funds offer fund managers the ability to control redemptions and deliver returns that allow illiquidity premia to be more fully realised. The only difference between the two is that the former has a daily
Neptune Networks, a fixed income market network for pre-trade indications in bonds, has completed connectivity to FlexTrade’s buy-side EMS platform, FlexTRADER, to distribute pre-trade data to assist investors with liquidity and price discovery within existing workflows.
With 22 dealers committed to the platform, over USD110 billion of gross notional and more than 20,000 axe/inventory items updating real time across 11,000 individual bonds (including investment grade, high yield, emerging markets and select rates from 20 different denominations), Neptune continues to expand from its original focus on European corporate bonds to a portfolio that also reflects the global nature and reach of its
Independent hedge fund administration specialist Custom House Global Fund Services has opened an office in Beijing to accommodate the need for experienced fund administrators with a local presence.
In addition, the firm has hired Nancy Wang and Yichen Huang as relationship managers responsible for business development and client collaboration. The new hires will be based in Beijing and Shanghai respectively. They will report to Allen Li, director of the Hong Kong office.
"Custom House continues to expand on our relationship-driven services in the Asia alternatives market as new fund launches are on the rise," says Mark Hedderman (pictured), CEO,
Quoniam, a quantitative asset management firm headquartered in Frankfurt, with more than EUR26 billion in assets under management, has implemented Axioma Risk to improve the quality of its daily risk reporting.
Axioma Risk provides complex risk reports as well as ad hoc deep dive risk analyses for various asset classes.
With Axioma Risk, Quoniam’s risk department can define and customise the statistics it uses for risk figures and stress tests, which enables Quoniam’s risk team to quickly name and quantify risks associated with investments under its surveillance.
"Quoniam has been a valued client of our portfolio construction and
Wall Street Horizon’s Enchilada corporate event dataset is now available through Interactive Brokers’ IB Trader Workstation (TWS) platform.
With this collaboration, tens of thousands of traders and investors can now access Enchilada’s comprehensive forward-looking and historical corporate event data for 5,000 North American companies.
The platform tracks more than 40 different event types including earnings dates, dividend dates, splits and investor related conferences, which are available via a web-based application or direct data feed.
“We aligned with Wall Street Horizon in 2010 because their feeds were far and away the most accurate and timely, and we are pleased
The Central European Gas Hub (CEGH), located in Vienna, is already the reference market in Central Eastern Europe (CEE), according to a paper from Powernext, operator of the pan-European gas trading platform PEGAS.
Powernext published the position paper in response to a study initiated by E-Control on the performance of the Austrian gas market and the impact potential market area integrations.
An integration with neighbouring markets like Slovenia, Slovakia and Croatia could further bundle liquidity in CEE and reduce dependency on oil-indexed contracts.
The study on potential market area mergers has been conducted by the independent consultant WECOM.
