12 Nov 2015
Ali Sheikh appointed head of Northern Trust Hedge Fund Services in Asia Pacific
Northern Trust has appointed Ali Sheikh as head of Hedge Fund Services, Asia-Pacific.“With record assets of USD5.3 billion raised in Asia,…
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Convergex Prime Services to launch new futures prime brokerage offering
Convergex has entered into a clearing agreement with INTL FCStone Financial enabling it to offer its clients access to FCStone's futures…
Mill Hill selects Gravitas for cloud support solutions
Gravitas Technology Services is to provide alternative investment manager Mill Hill Capital with cloud hosting, archiving, network support…
DMS hires Murray McGregor as global head of structured finance
Fund governance firm DMS Offshore Investment Services (DMS) has appointed Murray McGregor as Global Head of Structured Finance, to lead the…
LiquidityBook helps CBOE expand connectivity to PULSe trader workstations
Chicago Board Options Exchange is collaborating with LiquidityBook to expand connectivity to its CBOE PULSe trader workstation, an…
Quant hedge fund manager ManAHL releases Arctic as open source project
Quantitative hedge fund manager Man AHL has released Arctic, its MongoDB-powered financial tick store, on code collaboration and management…
Opportunistic private real estate fundraising
With Blackstone Group’s latest opportunistic offering, which closed in Q3, becoming the largest private real estate fund of all time,…
11 Nov 2015
Entry barriers stifling growth of alternative investments funds
For the first time in five years regulatory requirement has been knocked off the top of the list of the biggest challenges facing the…
Clear skies ahead for Guernsey’s funds sector
What does the future hold in store for Guernsey? Guernsey Finance’s Kate Clouston (pictured) paints a bright picture for the island’s funds…
Hedge fund manager Hatteras Funds to split from RCS Capital
Hedge fund manager Hatteras Funds is to repurchase itself from RCS Capital Corporation and re-establish itself as an employee-owned…
RSRCHXchange adds OTAS Technologies to its online marketplace for institutional research
RSRCHXchange has added OTAS Technologies (OTAS), a provider of market data analytics, to the list of providers on the firm’s institutional…
UMB Fund Services adds two to team
UMB Fund Services (UMBFS) has hired Michael Yanke as head of fund administration and Mackenzie Johnson as legal counsel in Milwaukee.Yanke…
Hedge funds up 1.19 per cent in October
The hedge fund industry produced an aggregate return of 1.91 per cent in October, bringing YTD returns to near flat for 2015, but still…
10 Nov 2015
Elian strengthens Luxembourg depositary team with senior appointment
A month after being granted a licence to provide professional depositary services from its Luxembourg office, Elian has appointed Kerstin…
Options to deliver Trader Serve’s trading compliance tool AlgoGuard as a managed solution
Options, a provider of cloud-based IT services to hedge funds, private equity houses, investment banks, trading firms and broker-dealers,…
