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End of hedge funds for CalPERS
26 September 2014 Sacremento, California
Reporter: Stephen Durham

CalPERS is set to eliminate its hedge fund programme, known internally as the Absolute Return Strategies (ARS) programme, as part of an ongoing effort to reduce complexity and costs in its investment scheme...

Collateral management solution for LCH.Clearnet
26 September 2014 London
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

LCH.Clearnet has successfully implemented the Calypso collateral management solution to its collateral and liquidity management offering...

Hedge funds overcome summer slump
25 September 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Total assets in hedge funds increased 1.6 percent in August to $3.07 trillion, overtaking the all-time peak level set prior to July’s slight decline, according to eVestment’s latest report...

Lombard Risk promotes Groetch
25 September 2014 London
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Lombard Risk Management has promoted John Groetch to managing director for the Americas, effective immediately...

New Dubai office for eVestment
25 September 2014 Dubai
Reporter: Stephen Durham

Analytics provider eVestment is to open a new Dubai office to meet growing investor interest in traditional, alternative managers in the Middle East and Africa region...

Clearstream provides triparty service
24 September 2014 Luxembourg
Reporter: Tammy Facey

Triparty agent Clearstream is to provide Eurosystem triparty collateral pledge services to participants...

SL-x confirms restructuring
24 September 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

SL-x Technology has confirmed that it is reviewing its corporate strategy and restructuring its operations, citing “the slow transition' of the US and European stock lending marketplace from its current OTC structure to a CCP structure...

SunGard's hottest stocks
24 September 2014 Global
Reporter: Stephen Durham

The hottest stocks from around the globe for the week beginning 22 September 2014 have been compiled by SunGard’s Astec Analytics...

SmartStream wins TLM Reconciliations SEC contract
23 September 2014 Washington DC
Reporter: Catherine Van de Stouwe

SmartStream has been awarded a contract by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to furnish SmartStream’s TLM Reconciliations Premium solution to the SEC’s office of compliance inspection and examinations (OCIE)...

Europe overcomes bad results
23 September 2014 Frankfurt
Reporter: Stephen Durham

European H1 earnings in the securities lending market has yielded more opportunities for fast money shorting on disappointing results, according to research from Deutsche Bank...

4sight recruits Raymond Blokland
23 September 2014 London
Reporter: Stephen Durham

4sight Financial Software has hired Raymond Blokland as a senior consultant...

CaIPERS recruits chief investment officer
22 September 2014 Sacramento
Reporter: Tammy Facey

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CaIPERS) has promoted Ted Eliopoulous as its chief investment officer...