19 May 2016
GMEX Avenir Warehouse Receipt System goes live at Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa
Phase 2 of GMEX Technologies’ project to implement the warehouse receipt system AvenirWRS at the Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa…
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Four of six IndexIQ Hedge Fund Indexes positive in April
Four out of six of IndexIQ’s family of IQ Hedge Indexes recorded positive performance in April, with the IQ Hedge Long/Short Index leading…
Barclay CTA Index Slips 0.05 per cent in April
Managed futures traders lost 0.05 per cent in April according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index has gained 0.95…
Clean Data: The Next Game Changer? – KNEIP’s Lee Godfrey on why data cleanliness should be a top priority for asset management company CEOs
The typical CEO of an asset management company has many things on his mind, but data cleanliness is unlikely to be top of the list. It…
Brad Rinklin joins Eze Software’s management team
Eze Software Group has appointed Brad Rinklin as Senior Managing Director – Marketing. Prior to joining Eze Software, Rinklin spent over 15…
VMS partners with EDI to expand offerings to asset managers
Vertical Management Systems (VMS), a provider of data, financial networking and account aggregation technology, has partnered with Exchange…
Jürg Hunziker joins Avaloq Group Executive Board
Jürg Hunziker has been appointed Group Chief Markets Officer and deputy CEO of the Avaloq group. The former SunGard executive will join…
Worth Venture Partners publishes new Worth Insights hedge fund paper
Worth Venture Partners, an emerging manager hedge fund platform headquartered in Manhattan, has released a new paper titled "Accessing…
Hedge funds flee equities in Q1, says S&P
Hedge funds were severely impacted by US stock market performance in Q1, according to the latest S&P Global Market Intelligence Hedge…
Murano Systems: lending an ear to improve private equity fund raising
A recent report produced by BNY Mellon in collaboration with Preqin shines a light on how much demand there is among institutional…
Direct lending funds back in focus as an alternative source of finance for SMEs
By Kerill O’Shaughnessy, Walkers – In the aftermath of the financial crisis, the implementation of the Basel III agreement in the EU as…
18 May 2016
Investment community backs ‘remain’ at Howard Kennedy sponsored Brexit debate
The investment community voted to remain in the EU last night (Monday 16 May) following a passionate discussion at the ‘Brexit: Pursued by…
Cordium and Knadel form strategic alliance
Cordium has formed a strategic alliance with specialist management consultancy Knadel allowing the provision of bespoke solutions to the…
Dedicated managed accounts: Making hedge funds great again
By Josh Kestler, HedgeMark – On April 14, 2016, the trustees of the New York City Employees’ Retirement System (NYCERS) voted to liquidate…
Alger launches Small Cap Focus Fund for non-US investors
Fred Alger Management has launched the Alger Small Cap Focus Fund, a new Alger SICAV sub-fund, to its product line-up. The Fund will be…
