William de Winton, co head of bank research at Morgan Stanley, has joined London based hedge fund Lansdowne Partners to run a long short equity fund, according to a report in the Financial Times today.
The OECD is inviting public comment on a draft of the revision of the Principles of Corporate Governance that were adopted by OECD governments in 1999. It follows a request from OECD governments for reinforcement of the Principles in response
The London rumour mill grinds out the news that Tony Kirby, the former executive director of the GSTPA who recently joined Deutsche Borse as head of STP initiatives, has tired of commuting to Frankfurt and of German office politics. He
Netik, the securities data management and reporting software firm. says it has released an upgrade d version of its Data Portal product. The company says the upgrade to the Data Portal now in Netik InterView release 7 was driven by
Linux continues to gain popularity in the US securities industry, with large brokerage firms leading the adoption charge, says TowerGroup. Tower says the language is currently deployed as the operating system on 9 per cent of all servers in the
City Networks, a UK based provider of software and services to the treasury, securities and derivatives markets, says it increased both revenue and operating profits in 2003. For the fiscal year ending June 2003, City Networks delivered a positive financial
CMS WebView plc (CMS), a provider of software systems for real time financial data distribution and management, says the market data feed it built for the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) has gone live. The new market data feed provides
During 2003, a further 13 firms from across Europe Finland, France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK signed up to use the Russell Mellon CAPS AMI database service. This brought the total number of asset managers using AMI to 114, with
Fidelity Investments has announced that it has made two additional appointments to its London based Fixed Income portfolio Management team. Beatrice Rodriquez has joined the team as money market manager, and Joe Andrews has been hired to the Quantitative Research
DALBAR has released the results of its 2003 study of methods to improve retirement income security through increased saving rates. The study, whose findings are based on the 45 year history of inflation rates, interest rates and investment returns of