13 Nov 2019
Context Capital Partners makes senior leadership changes
Context Capital Partners, an alternative specialist firm with holdings and operating companies in various sectors of the alternatives…
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AFME calls for greater supervisory convergence in European crypto-asset regulation
The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) has published a new paper setting out five recommendations to deliver supervisory…
Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index gains 0.31 per cent in October 2019
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category…
BTIG appoints new member to Dallas Outsourced Trading team
Jill Kreutz is to join BTIG’s Outsource Trading division in Dallas.Kreutz joins the unit from the firm’s Institutional Equities desk, where…
The third wave: A tipping point for outsourced execution services in the US
By Gary Paulin (pictured), Global Head of Integrated Trading Solutions, Northern Trust Capital Markets – The asset management industry is…
12 Nov 2019
EEX Group acquires commodities business of Nasdaq Futures
EEX Group is to acquire Nasdaq Futures’ (NFX) futures and options exchange business. EEX Group will acquire the core assets of NFX,…
FactSet launches Workstation on OpenFin
FactSet, a provider of integrated financial information and analytical applications, has deployed the FactSet workstation on OpenFin, the…
Hedge funds post 0.88 per cent return in October, says Backstop BarclayHedge
The pace of hedge fund returns picked up a bit in October, with the industry posting a monthly gain of 0.88 per cent, according to the…
Electra adds new capabilities to reconciliation platform
Electra Information Systems (Electra), a provider of post-trade solutions for the buy-side investment management industry, has added new…
Caspian partners with CoinRoutes to provide cryptocurrency trading algorithms
Caspian, a full-stack crypto trading and portfolio management platform for institutional investors and sophisticated traders, is to partner…
Hedge fund managers up 0.26 per cent in October, says Eurekahedge
Hedge fund managers were up 0.26 per cent in October, pushing their year-to-date return to 6.21 per cent, according to Eurekahedge’s latest…
Carbon Cap Management makes several new appointments ahead of fund launch
London-based investment firm, Carbon Cap has added several trading and environmental experts to its team in preparation for the launch of a…
Hedge funds gain in October, but managed futures slow overall returns
The global hedge fund industry saw an average return of +0.55 per cent in October, bringing year to data (YTD) average industry returns to…
Scharf Investments launches first UCITS fund with iM Global Partner
iM Global Partner, an investment and development platform focused on acquiring strategic investments, and Scharf Investments, an investment…
Integral and Jefferies FXPB launch TrueFX
Integral, a financial technology company, and Jefferies, a global investment banking firm, have launched TrueFX, a fully integrated service…
