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First Light Asset Management has selected Market Street Advisors’ Archer MSA investment management platform and a full suite of operational services from MSA Ops.
First Light was established in September 2013 by chief executive and senior portfolio manager Matt Arens and managing director Brett Johnson.
First Light needed a turn-key solution from a company with extensive knowledge of separately managed accounts and back office expertise.
Arens says: "The experience and responsiveness of Market Street Advisors' team was a key element in our decision."
Ron Rawdon, senior vice president, director of new business development at MSA, says: "First
Eze Castle Integration, a provider of IT solutions and private cloud services to hedge funds and alternative investment firms, has released the next generation of its Eze Disaster Recovery (Eze DR) service.
The new version of Eze DR features advanced technology to deliver more aggressive Recover Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and enhanced testing to ensure clients can resume operations after a disaster.
Eze DR is a fully managed disaster recovery solution used by hedge funds around the world. The newest version incorporates hypervisor-based replication technology to replicate, in near real-time, a client’s virtual production environment
Roth Capital Partners, a full service investment bank focused on serving emerging growth companies, has launched an online investment platform called OpenRound.com.
OpenRound.com aims to simplify the “road show” for growth stage companies and creating access to accredited investors. By leveraging the internet, accredited investors residing around the world can find, review, engage with and invest in growth stage companies. OpenRound makes this process more accessible and transparent by providing an online investment platform.
“This is a logical extension of our business of supporting small-cap public companies. Following passage of the JOBS Act, more innovative companies are utilising the
Options is expanding its partnership with Redline Trading Solutions, a provider of low-latency market data and order execution solutions, to offer a fully managed ticker plant for options and equities.
The Options-Redline collaboration enables trading firms to access a complete and fully resilient set of exchange-traded equities, options, futures and FX market data, in addition to a full suite of broker connections, and to submit and track orders to the exchanges.
Additionally, the service is being delivered via market leading low latency infrastructure and alongside a fully redundant hosted environment with storage in NY4 and Weehawken.
The delivery
Fidelity Institutional has launched a new solution for accessing alternative investments.
Fidelity’s platform will provide research, education and third-party due diligence, as well as access to a wide range of alternative investment products for all Fidelity Institutional clients.
Financial advisors and family office professionals will now have access to a variety of alternative investment products, including hedge funds, private equity funds and ’40 Act mutual funds.
Fidelity’s platform will also provide access to research and third-party due diligence reports through strategic alliances with leaders in the space – including CAIS, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) and Morningstar.
ISIS Fund Services has launched a Private Equity Real Estate Platform (I-ReS) providing both property accounting and partnership accounting services to private equity funds that invest in real estate.
Between ISIS and its real estate strategic partners, the platform has a seasoned team of both private equity fund administration accounting professionals and property accounting professionals with on average 10 years individual industry experience.
Key advantages of utilising the platform include the ability to leverage the expertise of knowledgeable professionals and use top tier technology that will ultimately create efficiencies for the investment manager. The structure alleviates the investment manager’s
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, has opened an office in Dallas to help support a growing client base in that market.
Abacus Group’s expansion, which included the addition of 57 new funds this year, was prompted by increased demand in the Dallas market from new and existing fund managers. While an improved economic environment in 2013 has contributed to new fund launches, heightened regulatory pressure on the business has prompted funds to seek more cost efficient business technology models that meet new requirements.
Changes imposed under Dodd-Frank have set
Guernsey Finance has welcomed an announcement from the Channel Islands Stock Exchange (CISX) that it is once again open to considering new listing applications.
A statement published on the CISX website says that it is “gradually able to apply more capacity at this stage of proceedings to consider new listing applications with no apparent suitability issues.”
Fiona Le Poidevin (pictured), chief executive of Guernsey Finance – the promotional agency for the island’s finance industry internationally, says: “We welcome the announcement from the CISX that it is now once again open to considering new listing applications. This not only demonstrates determination
Gravitas has launched Gravitas Atmosphere, a secure, private, cloud-based online file sharing, sync and storage service, for the alternative investment industry.
Gravitas Atmosphere was designed for asset management professionals to access, share and synchronise corporate data or files from any authorised computer or mobile device anytime, anywhere, within a private, secure environment.
Gravitas has partnered with EMC Syncplicity and EMC Atmos to deliver Gravitas Atmosphere within the Gravitas Private Cloud, which is powered by VCE’s Vblock technology.
“The collaborative, dynamic ways in which we work have changed things dramatically and the alternative asset management industry is no exception,” says Patrick
Accelerator Academy, an early stage business development programme, has announced the 10 high-growth tech and digital start-ups accepted on to its sixth semester.
The 10 new participants span a number of sectors and address a number of challenges, from unnecessary wallet clutter and making address books smarter in a contextual sense to connecting people with high quality, gourmet food producers and breaking down barriers in the art world.
The 10 start-ups are listed below in alphabetical order:
Audiowings – is making headphones smart enough to give you the music you want to listen to and intuitive enough to
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