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Bloomberg has signed an agreement to become the corporate sponsor of the EDHEC Business School’s MSc in Financial Markets.
Students studying the Financial Economics track of EDHEC's MSc in Financial Markets can now access the Bloomberg Professional service, or Terminal, which has more than 325,000 business and financial subscribers worldwide.
The Bloomberg Professional service is a software platform providing trusted real-time and historical data, market moving news and analytics to help business and financial professionals make better informed investment decisions. The service also features execution platforms for every asset class, research and a global network to communicate securely and
During the crisis in 2008, investors started to appreciate how important corporate governance was but it wasn't until 2013 that Cayman introduced the Statement of Guidance to provide a clear framework for best practices. This was followed by the Directors Registration and Licensing Law, 2014, which applies to all directors of Cayman registered mutual funds and requires them to be registered with or licensed by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority.
"CIMA now has a pretty detailed database of Cayman directors who are regulated and under the purview of CIMA," says Giorgio Subiotto pictured), Partner at Ogier. He says that when
Last year the number of hedge fund launches globally fell by an estimated 40 per cent, but despite this there have been a number of positive developments for the funds industry in the BVI.
One is the creation of an AIFMD opt-in regime for the BVI, called the Securities and Investment Business (AIFMD) Regulations, as the BVI looks to seek approval from the European regulator, ESMA, for third country equivalence and introduces into the BVI an AIFMD equivalent regime.
"Secondly, there is fairly advanced work on updating the BVI's Partnership Act. This statute is due a refresh and expected to
Eze Castle Integration, a provider of strategic IT solutions and cloud services to the alternative investment industry, has been named Best Cloud Provider in the 2017 Hedgeweek Global Awards 2017.
The annual reader’s choice award programme honours excellence among hedge fund service providers.
Keeping the winning streak going, Eze Castle Integration won three additional awards. The company was named “Best IT Consultancy” in the HFM US Technology Awards, “Best Cloud Solution” in the Fund Technology and WSL Awards, and received placement on CRN’s 2017 Managed Service Provider 500.
“Our clients rely on Eze Castle Integration to be their
Eze Software Group has partnered with OTAS Technologies to integrate OTAS’ real-time data analytics and market intelligence into its execution workflows.
OTAS specialises in activity analysis, using artificial intelligence and big data techniques to translate unusual market movements into actionable real-time alerts and signals.
Complementing the existing in-trade analytics native to the Eze EMS (RealTick), the partnership positions Eze Investment Suite to deliver the latest in pre- and in-trade analysis to help buy-side traders achieve best execution.
The integration embeds OTAS’ latest capabilities directly into the Eze EMS, allowing traders to monitor their entire order blotter and watchlist
Traditionally, hedge funds and private equity firms have allocated significant capital budgets to build out their own sophisticated Communication (Comm.) Rooms, which can take months to provision and bring online. With servers to buy and install, software to license and configure, and voice/networks to deploy – not to mention recruiting, hiring, and managing expensive and hard-to-find IT talent – it’s no wonder cloud solutions have emerged as the dominant choice for computing infrastructures at investment firms large and small.
Not surprisingly, many investment management firms – including those with well-established in-house infrastructures – are making the move to the cloud
Invast Global, a Sydney-based prime services provider, has been named Best Specialist Prime Broker at the 2017 HedgeWeek Global Awards.
With a unique peer-review voting structure, the Hedgeweek Global Awards have grown to become one of the most prestigious and eagerly anticipated awards in the global hedge fund industry.
During an elegant luncheon ceremony held amongst the opulent halls of the Reform Club in London’s Mayfair district, Australian-based, Japanese-backed multi asset prime broker Invast Global was voted HedgeWeek Global Awards 2017 Best Specialist Prime Broker. Past winners of the Best Prime Broker award are Societe Generale Prime Services (2015)
Linedata is extending its partnership with Morningstar in the area of fixed income and credit derivatives to include its Fund Services clients.
Linedata says that as the search for returns in a difficult investment climate progresses, the investment management community is investing in diverse global fixed income products, requiring accounting systems to have robust and flexible asset coverage.
The growth of alternative mutual funds and the increase in popularity of direct lending in private equity type structures require accounting systems to meet this challenge.
“As the global fixed income market becomes more complex and as more managers move
Cowen Prime Services, the prime services division of Cowen Group, has been named Best Global Prime Broker at the 2017 Hedgeweek Global Awards.
This is the second consecutive year that Hedgeweek has honoured Cowen Prime Services with this award.
The Hedgeweek Global Awards celebrate excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers and celebrates the achievements of firms that contributed to another significant year for the sector. The winners, who were presented with their awards in London on 3 March, were decided by a poll of Hedgeweek readers, who include both investors and managers as well as other industry professionals at
Advanced Logic Analytics (ALA), a provider of enterprise wide big data and finance analytics solutions for buy- and sell-side institutions and other financial firms, has launched its core big data analytics platform, ALA OneLogic.
ALA OneLogic was developed to provide advanced big data analytics capabilities for financial markets firms requiring powerful mining, processing, managing and analysis of their enterprise-wide information assets and external data sources, in one optimised platform.
Nick Ellis (pictured), managing director at ALA, says: “Big data is complex and in itself it does not create value. Firms that are able to become masters of data through
