14 Feb 2017
Calamos Investments appoints Lead Portfolio Manager of Calamos US Growth Strategies
Calamos Investments has appointed Michael Grant (pictured), Senior Vice President, to lead portfolio management of the firm’s approximately…
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BTL Group to commence Interbit blockchain pilot with Wien Energie
BTL Group is working with a group of leading energy companies, including Wien Energie, Austria’s largest regional energy company, on a…
Bermuda’s captive insurance register maintains stability in 2016
Bermuda Monetary Authority (the Authority) has confirmed that Bermuda had 776 active captive licences on its register as at 31 December…
Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index gains 0.50 per cent in January
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category…
13 Feb 2017
Blockchain to become mainstream in financial post trade market within a few years
Blockchain will become adopted in the financial post-trade area in three to five years, according to almost half (48 per cent) of the…
Qineqt hires data architecture expert
Qineqt, a NYC based company that is building a foundational data architecture for investment managers, has added another Senior Data…
SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index up 1.71 per cent in January
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for January 2017 measured 1.71 per cent.Hedge fund flows as measured…
Invast Global attracts two investment bank heavyweights
Invast Global has appointed industry veterans Andrew Pal (pictured) and Cassandra Lister as specialist consultants, further strengthening…
Lyxor reports hedge fund performance recovers in February
Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team has focused on the performance of value equity funds versus their benchmarks in this week’s report,…
Arendt chooses Unity NXT Regulatory Reporting from Confluence for AIFMD reporting
Arendt Regulatory & Consulting has selected Confluence’s Unity NXT Regulatory Reporting AIFMD Transparency Reporting to support their…
Man AHL announces winners of second annual coding prize
Matthew Ridley from the University of Oxford has been awarded first place and a cash prize of GBP5,000 in the second Man AHL Coder Prize, a…
Asset inflows into alternative UCITS remain strong, says LuxHedge
The Alternative UCITS market keeps showing strong growth with LuxHedge recording net inflows of EUR5.2 billion in assets under management…
Hedge funds start 2017 on largely positive note
In the face of more than USD100 billion in investor redemptions in 2016, hedge funds continue to perform surprisingly well out of the gate…
Hedge fund Alpine Global Master Trust appoints Northern Trust for admin services
Alpine Global Master Fund, a long/short market-neutral hedge fund, has appointed Northern Trust (Nasdaq: NTRS) to provide hedge fund…
10 Feb 2017
Bats reports Q4 net income growth of 50 per cent
Bats Global Markets has reported net income of USD32.5 million and adjusted earnings of USD38.5 million for the fourth quarter ended 31…
