13 Jul 2016
Cybersecurity strategies for investors and managers
Whilst the cybersecurity narrative typically tends to focus on how asset managers are putting steps in place to improve their cyber…
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New GLEIF challenge facility triggers updates of LEI data to all interested parties
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), the body responsible for ensuring the operational integrity of the Global Legal…
Man GLG completes emerging markets debt team with five senior hires
Man GLG, the discretionary investment management business of Man Group, has appointed five senior investment professionals, completing the…
Bats unveils community policing programme for US equities
Bats Global Markets has created the Bats Community Policing Program for its US equities and options exchanges, an initiative designed to…
ALTX East Africa launches in Uganda
ALTX East Africa has gone goes live with its high tech exchange in Uganda.The team, led by chief executive Joseph Kitamirike, has built the…
Activist Insight acquires Activist Shorts Research
Activist Insight, a provider of news and data on shareholder activism around the world, has acquired New York-based data-provider Activist…
Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index up 0.36 per cent in June
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category…
Open-end investment funds lead to cautious trading against mispriced assets, says Oxford University research
The open-end structure of most investment vehicles discourages asset-managers from trading against mispricing – to the detriment of…
Pacific Fund Systems strengthens management team
Pacific Fund Systems (PFS), a provider of fund accounting and transfer agency administration software via its PFS-PAXUS application, has…
Institutional investors continue to see hedge funds as key part of investment portfolios
Despite the majority of institutional investors redeeming from hedge funds during the first half of this year, most continue to view hedge…
12 Jul 2016
Unigestion moves into new London office for expanded UK team
Boutique asset manager Unigestion has moved its London-based staff into new London headquarters in Stratford Place, W1.Since the beginning…
Agrocorp International to pay USD150,000 for call cotton reporting violations
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an order filing and settling charges against Agrocorp International Pte Ltd,…
CBOE to list SPX Monday-expiring Weeklys options
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) plans to list S&P 500 Index (SPX) Monday-expiring Weeklys options, beginning 15 August 2016,…
Sprott rolls out new private credit strategy
Sprott Asset Management, a USD10 billion Toronto-based alternative asset manager, has rolled out a second iteration of the firm’s private…
State Street to pilot GlobalCollateral’s settlement messaging service
State Street Corporation has agreed to participate in a pilot programme to test DTCC-Euroclear GlobalCollateral’s Margin Settlement…
