11 Jun 2018
Paul Hastings appoints financial services regulatory partner
Financial services and regulatory partner Arun Srivastava is to join the London office of law firm Paul Hastings from Baker McKenzie, where…
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Gresham House appoints ex-Fidelity Director as Head of Institutional Business
Gresham House, a specialist alternatives asset manager, has appointed Heather Fleming to the newly created role of Head of Institutional…
Columbia Threadneedle appoints head of high yield portfolio management EMEA
Columbia Threadneedle Investments has appointed Roman Gaiser to the role of Head of Portfolio Management, High Yield, EMEA. Based in…
ICOs to account for 10 per cent of UK firms’ capital raising by 2023
Cryptocurrency initial coin offerings (ICOs) will become a significant fundraising route for companies seeking growth capital in the next…
Research Affiliates adds corporate governance expert as advisor
Research Affiliates has appointed London Business School Professor Alex Edmans, PhD, as an advisor. In this role, Edmans will support…
INGOT Coin & GMEX Commence Development on the All-Inclusive-Blockchain enabled Ecosystem
INGOT Coin has formed a Joint Venture Partnership with GMEX Group (GMEX), a provider of exchange and post-trade solutions to develop INGOT…
AlphaCentric Income Opportunities Fund granted Five-Star rating by Morningstar
AlphaCentric’s Income Opportunities Fund (IOFIX) has been awarded a five-star rating by Morningstar. The Fund celebrated its three-year…
Lendingblock partners with Octagon Strategy Limited
Lendingblock, an institutional platform for collateralised crypto-currency lending, has partnered with digital asset brokerage firm Octagon…
08 Jun 2018
Energy hedge funds surge to best gain since April 2016
Energy hedge funds soared in May to the best monthly gain since April 2016, leading the performance of the broad-based HFRI Fund Weighted…
07 Jun 2018
Automation is top priority for traders
Seventy one per cent of buy-side heads of trading and FX regard automation as their biggest priority, followed by 49 per cent who cite…
Peter Hutchison joins Thalēs as Managing Director of Institutional Sales
Thalēs has appointed Peter Hutchison as Managing Director of Institutional Sales and Relationship Management. Hutchison joins Thalēs from…
Broadridge acquires MackayWilliams
Broadridge Financial Solutions has expanded its global market intelligence business with the acquisition of MackayWilliams, a specialist…
CTA performance impacted by changing market conditions
Following a marginal uptick in April, Societe Generale Prime Services’ SG CTA Index moved into negative territory in May, down 2.41 per…
Large-in-scale dark volumes increase as buy-side firms focus on delivering best execution post-MiFID II
The vast majority (88 per cent) of buy-side traders see see the shift to block trading in the dark as a positive outcome of MiFID II,…
eFront appoints MD and SVP for Asia-Pacific
Alternative investment management software and solutions provider eFront has appointed John Legrand as Managing Director and Senior Vice…
