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Linedata has extended the capabilities of Linedata Reporting to include mobile access to fund data via smart phone and tablet and secure order entry on tablets for investors away from their desks.
This capability is being used by Linedata’s back office clients across North America and Europe.
Linedata Reporting now enables Linedata’s fund accounting, administration and transfer agency clients to provide a secure, mobile reporting and order entry facility for end investors. It caters for a wide variety of mobile devices.
The information can be tailored to the individual’s needs, and the live reports are badged with the
eFront has launched FrontPM, a set of portfolio monitoring and analysis capabilities that aims to streamline and automate the gathering of portfolio company data and enable sophisticated performance analysis and reporting.
Investment managers will be able to dedicate more time to portfolio analysis and more quickly perform tasks such as responding to investor inquiries and generating quarterly reports. They will produce more accurate reports and streamline the portfolio company valuation process while spending less time troubleshooting and auditing their analyses.
Managers can enable their investors to easily receive and incorporate FrontPM output by generating AltExchange documents, the industry standard
Institutional equity derivatives broker Macro Risk Advisors has launched Macro Risk Solutions, a firm that advises clients on how to strengthen investment portfolios through periods of market uncertainty.
Using a research process focused on global risk analysis, and leveraging expertise in OTC derivative trade construction, the firm will help clients anticipate and hedge against areas of systemic market risk.
The independent and non-transactional based advisory model gives clients confidence they are achieving optimal outcomes when risk managing their portfolios with help from Macro Risk Solutions.
"The past five years have demonstrated the ongoing instability of the financial system
Omgeo’s Central Trade Manager (Omgeo CTM) community has increased by 33 per cent in 2013, with the addition of over 150 broker/dealers and 280 investment managers.
More than 1,700 clients globally are now using Omgeo CTM, a central matching platform for cross-border and domestic equity, fixed income, exchange-traded derivative (futures and options) and contracts-for-difference transactions.
During this time, total equity and fixed income volumes on Omgeo CTM also increased by 82 per cent.
Omgeo CTM community growth has been attributed to global market participants’ increased desire for automated, post-trade solutions that reduce risk and increase efficiency.
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Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds is to host Imagineer Technology Group’s Clienteer software platform in the AbacusFLEX private cloud environment.
The partnership allows AbacusFLEX clients to access the Clienteer CRM Platform, with the option to either be maintained internally or be hosted by Imagineer.
Clienteer affords fund managers the flexibility to centralise all of their contact, account and fund information along with Outlook integration.
Clients can send out personalised and watermarked email distributions, K1’s, run fund and account performance analytics and compliance reports. Managers who are on-the-go can
Lucera Financial Infrastructures is making its infrastructure available to power electronic trading by financial institutions and high-frequency trading (HFT) firms.
Lucera’s platform enables customers to accelerate time-to-market, high speed connections to marketplaces and exchanges, and reduce operational and regulatory risk while eliminating the capital expense of building and operating a real-time network of customer and exchange connectivity.
“High frequency trading firms, exchanges, banks and hedge funds can reap huge savings and achieve significant improvements in performance by operating their infrastructure on Lucera,” says Jacob Loveless, CEO of Lucera. “Our customers are able to reach new levels of performance by
BATS has selected Equinix as its primary data centre provider for all of the BATS exchange platforms, including the Direct Edge Exchanges – EDGA and EDGX.
BATS and Direct Edge completed their merger on 31 January.
EDGA and EDGX will remain at their current location at Equinix’s NY4 data centre in Secaucus, New Jersey until January 2015 when they will migrate to BATS’ technology in Equinix’s NY5 data centre.
In the second quarter of 2015, the BATS BZX and BYX Exchanges, and BATS Options, will move to NY5 from their current location of NJ2 in Weehawken, NJ.
The Managed Funds Association (MFA) has launched an online hedge fund glossary in collaboration with Latham & Watkins through its Book of Jargon – Hedge Funds.
This resource, available on MFA’s website www.managedfunds.org, provides users with a complete set of key terms, phrases, and definitions specific to all aspects of the global hedge fund industry.
The hedge fund glossary offers users access to an interactive library of more than 900 terms, including acronyms regularly used to describe key industry terms, as well as jargon adopted by professionals in the hedge fund industry.
The Book of Jargon – Hedge
Indus Valley Partners (IVP) has launched IVP RAPTOR cloud, enabling alternative asset managers to meet their global regulatory reporting needs from a purpose-built cloud platform.
IVP RAPTOR (Regulatory Analytics Portfolio Transparency Operational Reporting) includes coverage for all major regulatory filings required by US-based alternative asset managers, including Form PF, 13F/D/G, CPO-PQR, CTA PR, Form ADV, Form 3, 4, 5 and the upcoming AIFMD for Europe.
In addition to automating regulatory filings IVP RAPTOR supports risk and exposure reporting in the OPERA format for investors and fund allocators.
The technology is already implemented with over 25+ clients and supports
Imagine Software has launched Imagine Risk Services, the next generation of its Imagine Financial Platform (IFP) and App Marketplace.
Financial institutions and third parties provide portfolio and risk analytics, drawing from Imagine’s risk and portfolio management analytics and data.
Imagine Risk Services addresses the challenge of providing users with the exact tools they need, anywhere and anytime, via a cost-effective cloud-based solution.
Increased demand from investment managers for the inclusion of risk analytics as a seamlessly integrated feature set has left service providers scrambling for suitable options. Imagine Risk Services answers the call for “a la carte” risk
