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West palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net) – Leading risk analytics provider Measurisk, LLC, an affiliate of J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services (WSS), today announced that it has crossed an important industry milestone in modeling the full positions of over 1,000 hedge funds – making it the largest position-based hedge fund analytical platform in the industry.
Measurisk acts as an independent intermediary facilitating the flow of risk information between hedge funds and investors. Measurisk receives the full positions from the hedge funds, but only provides summary risk and exposure statistics to investors. In this way, investors receive the risk transparency they need, while hedge fund managers maintain the confidentiality of their individual positions.
Measurisk also announced that the platform now includes managers that collectively make up more than 50% of the total $1.3 trillion* hedge fund industry assets.
“We are excited that the industry has chosen Measurisk as the preferred outlet to bridge the needs of both the investor and the manager" said Andrew Lapkin, President of Measurisk. "In today’s markets, transparency and risk management are paramount. Position-based risk information provides investors with a higher level of information necessary to make the best investment decisions – especially when having to navigate these difficult market environments.”
Measurisk’s independent, third party risk solutions are designed to address the needs of pension plans, endowments and foundations, family offices, insurance companies, hedge funds and funds of hedge funds. Measurisk compliments the full breadth of J.P. Morgan WSS services including: fund administration; custody; performance analytics and securities lending.
JPMorgan Chase & Co., is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.1 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management, and private equity. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan, Chase, and Washington Mutual brands.
J.P. Morgan Worldwide Securities Services (WSS) is a premier securities servicing provider that helps institutional investors, alternative asset managers, broker dealers and equity issuersoptimize efficiency, mitigate risk and enhance revenue. A division of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (NYSE: JPM), WSS leverages the firm’s unparalleled scale, leading technology and deep industry expertise to service investments around the world. It has $13.5 trillion in assets under custody and $3.7 trillion in assets under administration.
West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – Execution LLC, an agency-only global broker dealer, today announced that it has opened a New York office as part of its long-term US growth plan.
Execution’s new office is located at 450 Park Avenue and will include space for US sales and trading, desk analysts, options and European sales. The New York office will allow for further growth in headcount, and will facilitate deeper relationships and exceptional service for many of the firm’s New York based clients.
“Having a New York presence will enable us to hire outstanding talent from New York, New Jersey and Long Island and will further enhance the level of service for both new and existing clients,” Gary Cunningham, CEO, Execution LLC said. “New York will complement our existing offices in Greenwich and San Francisco and was the natural next step for the firm.”
Daniel Fox, Partner of Execution, will oversee the NY office and will be joined by Jonathan Fairhurst, AnnaMarie O’Neill, Chief Market Strategist Rick Bensignor and Financial Desk Analyst Yousef Abassi. John Margolis, who recently joined Execution following a 20 year career in technology and trading most recently with Thomson Financial, will also be joining the team to build out an options capability.
Execution will maintain its Greenwich office and is in the process of opening a Boston office where the firm will service Boston based accounts for US, European and Asian equities. Execution has developed an edge operating in a velvet rope environment on a platform free of proprietary trading conflicts.
Execution LLC is the U.S. subsidiary of London based Execution Limited, a full-service agency broker providing clients with execution, sales, trading, research and corporate access, free from the conflicts inherent in proprietary trading and corporate broking. Execution services many of the world’s major investing institutions, including mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies and hedge funds. Empowered by its technology and differentiated by its people, Execution provides access to the market’s core liquidity providers through extensive personal relationships and expertise. Execution LLC is a member of NASD and SIPC.
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Vineland Daily Journal – So Mark Cuban — internet billionaire, Dallas Mavericks owner, blogging geyser — is in the soup for alleged insider training, the feds claiming he saved himself $750,000.
That’s chump change. It wouldn’t even pay his NBA fines. But the folks down at the Securities and Exchange Commission can be a little touchy.
The upside to all this, though, is we could well be treated to another episode of one of the more entertaining grudge matches in the public domain.
