Hedge funds
| January 18th, 2012 | FINCAD’s New Hedge Accounting Educational Series Helps Corporate Treasuries Manage Income Statement Volatility Series of seven white papers explains the basics of hedge accounting and hedge effectiveness testing |
| January 12th, 2012 | Point Nine Puts Vertex Capital’s Evolution UCITS Fund into the Cloud with Circle.2 Vertex Capital Management has migrated its Vertex Evolution UCITS fund to Circle.2, Point Nine’s live and cloud-based middle and back office services platform for hedge funds. |
| November 28th, 2011 |
Algorithmics Signs Optima for its New US Hedge Fund Reporting Service To help hedge funds meet new demands from regulators and investors, Algorithmics, an IBM Company and leading provider of enterprise risk solutions, today announced that its hedge fund reporting service is now available for the US market. The service, Algo Risk Reports, has recently signed Optima Fund Management as a client in New York for UCITS reporting. |
| October 11th, 2011 | Thomson Reuters Survey Finds Hedge Funds Require Flexible Technology to Meet Regulatory Overhaul Thomson Reuters today announced the results of a survey on the impact of managing risk and compliance in response to new regulations. The survey, carried out during a Thomson Reuters Forum held in September, polled over 90 members of the buy-side trading community on the need for hedge fund managers to establish institutional quality compliance programs to attract investors. |
| October 3rd, 2011 | eClerx Appoints Artie Schlesinger to Lead Hedge Fund Solutions - New hire demonstrates firm’s momentum in the financial services industry eClerx, a leading knowledge and business process outsourcing firm to the global financial services industry, today announced the appointment of Artie Schlesinger as Senior Manager. In this role, Schlesinger will be focused on providing support and guidance to clients in the hedge fund and prime broker space. |
| August 18th, 2011 | GlobeOp Launches Form PF Reporting Service for hedge Funds Ahead of SEC Deadline With the first SEC deadline for private fund (Form PF) reporting currently less than six months away for many large hedge funds and managed account platforms, GlobeOp Financial Services (LSE:GO.) has launched a reporting service to specifically support the requirements. |
| August 12th, 2011 | AIMA Responds to Temporary Short Selling Bans The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund association, has responded to the temporary short selling bans introduced by France, Italy, Belgium and Spain. AIMA ceo Andrew Baker said: “We do not think these bans will help the current market situation. Past experience has shown that bans on short selling do not prevent market falls and indeed can exacerbate volatility. Independent academic research also supports this conclusion. |
| August 11th, 2011 | Open Protocol Enabling Risk Aggregation Launched |
| May 23rd, 2011 | AIMA Warns New Barriers to International Clearing Could Be Created by EU OTC Derivatives Proposals
New barriers to international clearing could be erected by proposed new regulations for over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives in the European Union, according to the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund association. |
| May 17th, 2011 | OTC Fin’s Data Warehouse to Help Buy side Firms and Institutional Investors Achieve a Comprehensive View of Market, Credit, Liquidity and Portfolio Risk
OTC Fin, a provider of front and middle office financial technology to investment managers, hedge funds, hedge fund of funds and institutional investors, today announced the release of PAT DW (Portfolio Analysis Tool Data Warehouse), Version 3, which merges Funds of Funds and multi-asset security level data whereby providing increased transparency of portfolio holdings via its look-thru capability. |
