03 Mar 2016
50 South Capital Advisors to acquire Aurora Investment Management
50 South Capital Advisors, the investment advisory subsidiary of Northern Trust is to acquire the hedge fund solutions provider Aurora…
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Preserver Partners launches liquid alternatives mutual fund
Preserver Partners has launched a liquid alternatives mutual fund – the Preserver Alternative Opportunities Fund – to provide investors…
Cowen Group appoints new vice chairman
Cowen Group has appointed Fred S Fraenkel as a Vice Chairman.Peter A Cohen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cowen, says: “Fred is a…
Tradeweb Markets acquires CodeStreet
Tradeweb Markets, an operator of global fixed income and derivatives marketplaces, has acquired CodeStreet, a specialist in data-driven…
Opus Fund Services named Best Global Hedge Fund Administrator at 2016 Hedgeweek Awards
Opus Fund Services has been named Best Global Hedge Fund Administrator at the 2016 Hedgeweek Awards. The annual Hedgeweek ceremony…
Hedge fund study reveals more manager-investor equilibrium and a rise in alternative seed deals
Newly launched hedge funds continued to entice investors with management fee discounts while simultaneously tightening restrictions on…
02 Mar 2016
CBOE Futures Exchange reports ADV for February
February average daily volume (ADV) at the CBOE Futures Exchange was up 23 per cent from February 2015, but down 25 per cent from January…
NewAlpha AM strengthens its organisation with a Global Strategist
NewAlpha AM, a French global emerging manager acceleration specialist, has appointed Driss Lamrani (pictured) as Global Strategist, based…
Looking Glass Investments opens predictive analytics office in Brunswick, Maine
Looking Glass Investments (LGI), a fixed-income alternative investment firm focused on marketplace lending, has opened a research office in…
Private Client Services announces new advisor group
The Russell Group, at Louisville-based wealth management firm Atlas Brown, has recently joined Private Client Services’ (PCS) broker/dealer…
Intercontinental Exchange to acquire SPSE and CMA from McGraw Hill Financial
Intercontinental Exchange is to acquire Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations, Inc. (SPSE), a provider of fixed income evaluated…
Baymarkets takes on support, maintenance and development of SIX x-clear’s Clara clearing solution
The support, maintenance and continued development of SIX x-clear’s Clara clearing system has been taken on by Baymarkets.Since 2010 SIX…
Just one MVIS Long/Short Equity index positive in February
Only one of Market Vectors Index Solutions (MVIS) family of six investable Long/Short Equity Indices recorded positive performance in…
CBOE to offer FLEX Index Options with Asian and Cliquet style settlement
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) plans to offer FLEX index options with Asian and Cliquet style settlement beginning Monday, 21…
NZ Super Fund appoints Ramius to manage USD200m merger arbitrage mandate
The NZ Super Fund has appointed a subsidiary of Ramius, the global investment management business of Cowen Group to manage a USD200 million…
