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Deutsche Börse is expanding its market data offering by launching a pure post-trade transparency product for its regulated exchanges.
The new information product, “MiFID Post Trade”, provides trading prices and volumes for all MiFID relevant instruments traded on the Frankfurt stock exchange (Xetra and trading floor) as well as Tradegate Exchange. The data, which is non-delayed and quality assured, offers greatest transparency and more value than data that is available for OTC markets.
“MiFID Post Trade satisfies our clients’ needs for a pure post-trade transparency product for MiFID relevant stocks,” says Georg Gross, Head of Front Office Data
Having been hithard following the suspension of Guillaume Rambourg in March, with client redemptions nearing 1 billion pounds, Gartm
Standard and Poor’s has revealed in its latest review that funds-of- hedge-funds managers have continued to build on absolute performance in
Henderson Global Investors has launched a UCITS III-compliant Hor
Luxembourg Financial Group has seen five managers join its Luxemb
June proved to be an erratic month, with the UCITS HFS Index unable to gain traction following May’s losses.
Prime Fund Solutions, the former Fortis division in the process of being acquired by Credit Suisse, has launched a front, middle and back office service for fund of hedge funds managers.
The new service combines Prime Fund Solutions’ operational capabilities with technology developed in conjunction with Comada.
The platform, called PFS Horizon, will allow fund of funds to manage the entire investment process through one interface.
The service facilitates online trade execution with post trade monitoring and reporting; position analysis with drill down to investment activity details and cash movements; cash forecasting/projection with future liquidity profile; and investment information including
The Hennessee Hedge Fund Index declined 1.35 per cent in June, bringing its year-to-date performance to +0.20 per cent.
The S&P 500 decreased 5.39 per cent in June (-7.57 per cent YTD), the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 3.58 per cent (-6.27 per cent YTD), and the Nasdaq Composite Index fell 6.55 per cent (-7.05 per cent YTD).
Bonds advanced, as the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index increased 1.57 per cent (+5.33 per cent YTD), due to increases in treasuries, investment grade and high yield bonds.
“The rebound from the worst recession since the 1930’s faces added risks from Europe’s debt
Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets has appointed Paul Osment as director for leveraged credit sales reporting to Martin Bates, head of capital markets sales.
In this newly created position, Osment will join the leveraged credit sales team covering banks and leveraged investors for both bonds and leveraged loans.
Osment has over 12 years’ credit sales experience having worked at Lehman Brothers, ABN Amro, BMO Capital Markets and latterly, Evolution Securities.
Bates says: “I’m delighted Paul is joining the leveraged credit sales team. As Lloyds continues to expand its capital markets platform and loan lending to core customers, it is important
Singapore Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange are extending their mutual offset arrangement to include the S&P CNX Nifty Index futures contract.
The addition, effective 19 July, allows round-the-clock trading of the contract as investors can offset Nifty futures positions in one exchange to the other.
The Nifty futures contract will be the fifth covered by the arrangement between SGX and CME, which has been in place since 1984. Other contracts covered by the arrangement are the Eurodollar, Euroyen, Yen Nikkei 225 and USD Nikkei 225 futures contracts.
Gan Seow Ann (pictured), president of SGX, says: “The addition of the
