30 Nov 2017
Optima Fund Management: The risk hypochondriac
It’s fair to say that Optima Fund Management has seen a lot of change in the hedge fund industry, given that it is preparing to celebrate…
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Research veterans launch Alpine Macro
Macroeconomic and financial market research veterans Chen Zhao, Tony Boeckh and David Abramson have partnered to launch Alpine Macro – an…
Euronext acquires Irish Stock Exchange
Euronext has expanded its ‘Federal model’ with the acquisition of 100 per cent of the shares and voting rights of The Irish Stock Exchange…
Quant Insight makes macro research available via RSRCHXchange
Quant Insight (QI), a macro research firm providing discretionary asset managers with actionable investment ideas, has made its research…
Maples Fund Services appoints North American Head of Business Development
Maples Fund Services, an independent global fund services provider and division of MaplesFS, has appointed Brendan Tyne as Head of Business…
Boston Partners Global Long/Short Fund now available on Goldman Sachs platform
The Boston Partners Global Long/Short Strategy, a diversified equity fund that seeks long-term growth of capital while minimising exposure…
Greater demand for alt investments drives AUM to new record level
Alternative assets under management reached a record USD7.7 trillion in 2017, according to a new survey by BNY Mellon, and look set to…
Does regulation need to be painful?
By Bob Kneip, KNEIP – For all its trillions of assets under management, the funds industry is still relatively young and immature. It…
29 Nov 2017
Algorithms help FX managers drive efficiency gains
One of the key roles that technology plays in global FX and OTC markets, which by their nature are highly fragmented, is the price…
Global Investor Confidence down in November by 1.0 point to 97.1
The State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for November 2017 decreased to 97.1, down 1.0 point from October’s revised reading of…
Hedge Invest hires COO for its English subsidiary
Hedge Invest SGR, an independent asset manager specialising in alternative investments (hedge, UCITS alternatives, real estate and private…
Rolet steps down as CEO of LSE
Xavier Rolet has agreed to step down as CEO of London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) with immediate effect, at the request of the Group’s…
Cboe Europe Equities deploys big xyt’s Liquidity Cockpit
Cboe Europe Equities (Cboe) is using smart data specialist big xyt’s Liquidity Cockpit, which is designed to give global trading and…
Price swings create challenging environment for CTAs
Pricing volatility in currency and energy markets has created a challenging performance environment for CTAs in 2017 so far, according to…
Joseph Dufresne, Megan Renkow and companies to pay more than USD4.9m over futures trading fraud
Joseph Dufresne (a/k/a Joseph James) and Megan Renkow (a/k/a Megan James), and their companies, United Business Servicing, LLC and United…
