12 Oct 2017
Wedbush Securities appoints Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Wedbush Securities has appointed Dan Billings as its Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Billings (pictured), joined…
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All six IndexIQ IQ Hedge indexes in positive territory in September
All six of IndexIQ’s IQ Hedge Indexes recorded positive performance in September. Returns were led by the IQ Hedge Long/Short Index, up…
Women represent 19 per cent of alternative assets employees
Preqin’s latest overview of women in alternative assets finds that just under one in five employees at fund management firms is female.…
Colt revamps low latency APAC trading routes
Colt Technology Services has implemented further network optimisations to two of the company’s key low-latency routes in the APAC region.…
TransFICC secures strategic investment from Illuminate Financial and Main Incubator
TransFICC, a provider of low-latency connectivity for fixed income and derivative markets, has secured EUR1 million in early stage…
DC Thomson invests in ERIC to enhance MIFID II ready unbundled research provision
DC Thomson is partnering with Electronic Research Interchange (ERIC) to develop its bespoke investment research offering for the post-MiFID…
Cordium extends Cybersecurity and Data Protection Consulting Services to help investment firms comply with GDPR
Cordium, a provider of governance, risk and compliance services, has expanded its Cybersecurity and Data Protection Consulting Services to…
11 Oct 2017
MiFID II 90 days and counting…
By Nick Bayley (pictured), Duff & Phelps – With less than three months until the introduction of MiFID II, in some parts of the…
Almost two-thirds of asset managers see content marketing as most effective tool in coming year
Almost two-thirds (63 per cent) of asset managers regard content marketing as their most effective marketing tool with 65 per cent planning…
Hedge funds up 0.40 per cent in September
Hedge funds gained 0.40 per cent in September, according to Lyxor, with underlying markets, as represented by the MSCI AC World Index…
JP Morgan unveils first European ETFs
JP Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) is planning to list its first two European ETFs on the London Stock Exchange. The two actively managed…
NEX Group launches new cash and collateral movement workflow tool
Fintech company NEX Group (NEX) has launched PIVOT, a new cash and collateral movement workflow tool which enables clients to make cash…
SandPointe selects NAV for fund admin
SandPointe Asset Management has selected NAV Fund Administration Group (NAV) to provide full service fund administration to six SandPointe…
Hedge funds up 1 per cent on back of Global Macro recovery
The Lyxor Hedge Fund index was up 1.0 per cent last week, fuelled by the recovery of Global Macro managers, according to the latest Weekly…
Tradition and Starfuels collaborate to broker grain derivatives
Tradition, one of the world's largest interdealer brokers in over-the-counter commodity and financial products, and Starfuels, the…
