19 Jun 2014
Cantor Fitzgerald expands prime services group
Cantor Fitzgerald has strengthened its prime services business with the additions of Paul Mandile, David Sklar and Robert Marietta.…
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Gottex to focus on alts, multi-asset and Asian asset management post EIM merger
Gottex Fund Management is to concentrate on alternative solutions, multi-asset and Asian-focused asset management following the completion…
Schroders and Imperial College London collaborate on multi-asset study
Schroders Multi-Asset Investments and Portfolio Solutions (MAPS), led by Nico Marais, is collaborating with Professor Tony Constantinides,…
Financial sector adopting poor ‘cloud practice’
A large number of businesses in the financial services sector are putting their IT systems and data at risk by failing to adopt good cloud…
Man Group to acquire Numeric
British hedge fund manager Man Group is to acquire Numeric Holdings, a privately-owned, Boston-based quantitative equity manager with…
Becoming an AIFM: insourcing vs outsourcing
“The issue is one of insourcing versus outsourcing,” says Alan Picone (pictured), Managing Director at Kinetic Partners (Luxembourg), when…
Super ManCo could boost capital raising efforts in Europe
Regardless of whether a hedge fund manager has an AIF, a UCITS fund, or one of each, the end objective is the same: to improve their…
AIFM solution offers open architecture
“Our AIFMD solution will be an infrastructure platform with distribution support but it absolutely won’t be an active distribution model;…
The third party AIFM: a multiple benefit solution
DMS Offshore Investment Services identified the need to create an AIFMD solution for its clients three years ago when it opened its Dublin…
Unveiling the Super Management Company
For the past 20 years or more the growth of the UCITS brand has been an unrivalled success: total assets are now an eye popping EUR7.1tn.…
SYZ & CO launches flexible European corporate credit strategy
The Swiss banking group SYZ & CO has launched OYSTER Flexible Credit, a new sub-fund of its Luxembourg Sicav, employing a credit…
Access to collateral could become a challenge, says study
An overall shortage of collateral is unlikely despite new global regulatory obligations and tighter risk controls mandating increased…
18 Jun 2014
BNY Mellon launches MyOnCore portal
BNY Mellon has launched MyOnCore, an online portal that offers transparency and oversight to investment managers who have outsourced their…
TOM Smart Execution connects to BATS Chi-X Europe
TOM Smart Execution is now connected to BATS Chi-X Europe, adding another trading venue to the Smart Order Router (SOR).With the new…
British firms fined over GBP500m by FCA in 2013, says Kinetic Partners
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) penalised British firms a total of GBP506.94m (USD770m) in 2013, according to research from Kinetic…