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UBS is spreading its wings outside its Cayman fund administration stronghold into Dublin, where it is setting up a fund administration operation that will target hedge funds
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) and Reuters have signed a landmark agreement that allows CME to offer its electronic foreign exchange (eFX) markets to Reuters’ global customer base in a spot equivalent format.
The agreement, signed in May, marks the first major linkage of sell side traders in the interbank FX market to CME eFX futures markets, where hedge funds and other major buy side participants play a major role.
The service will go live in the fourth quarter and will be initially available in London, with roll out to additional markets in Europe, Asia and North America following. Participants
Credit Agricole’s Asian Investment Team examines the reasons for the recent declines in Asia and outlines the prospects for investors in markets such as China.
Borsa Italiana (the Italian Stock Exchange) has made significant progress in winning the support of hedge funds for its growing range of products. Raffaele Jerusalmi outlines the thinking behind the Borsa’s hedge funds drive.
HW: What products have you launched for the hedge funds market?
RJ: We offer the full range of exchange-traded products, from equity cash to derivatives, fixed income products, exchange traded funds, and corporate bonds.
From the hedge funds perspective, the most attractive products are the equity cash and equity derivatives products.
HW: When did you launch these products?
RJ: We started the electronic cash market in
Hedge fund assets under management in the Italian market reached a record level of EUR 8.5 billion as at the end of the first quarter of 2004, representing growth of 35% sin
Netage has launched the latest version of InvestorDynamo Standard. This new release of the company’s Outlook-based application for hedge funds focuses on improving data import, internal and external investor reporting.
This latest product release from Netage introduces a key component for importing legacy data plus additional built-in views and reports.
Users can now easily import legacy data through an Import Manager and use the extended functionality of the InvestorDynamo Mail Merge Wizard. Other major improvements include new reports and many advanced built-in views and lookup lists.
InvestorDynamo Standard is a user-friendly and affordable Outlook-based application that allows hedge funds to
All Eurex US participants based in the UK can now trade directly on the new fully-electronic US futures and options exchange following approval by the FSA.
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the London-based hedge fund and alternative investment association, this week announced the following promotions a
Standard & Poor’s has launched the S&P Equity Long/Short Index with 24 constituent funds and two regional sub-indices.
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AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has launched AXA KAPPA Opportunities, the second generation of its innovative credit-equity volatility arbitrage fund, AXA KAPPA.
