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Gauging risk sentiment among hedge fund investors is more art than science but there are some indirect signals that one can use to examine this. If one looks at total inflows into hedge fund strategies in 2016, a clear picture emerges: CTAs attracted USD26 billion in net inflows, in stark contrast to all other strategies, which suffered USD110 billion of aggregate net outflows. The biggest losers in all of this were equity strategies, shedding USD50 billion of net assets; this despite generating 6.85 per cent returns.
What this would suggest is that large institutions, by favouring CTAs, view hedge fund
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Saxo Capital Markets UK Limited (Saxo), the UK subsidiary of Saxo Bank, has reduced the minimum spread for UK clients trading the UK100, the CFD index of the 100 largest UK listed companies by market capitalisation.
With spreads from as low as 0.8 basis points, Saxo now offers one of the tightest spreads in the market on the UK 100 CFD index.
The reduction in spreads took effect in early July 2017 to coincide with the launch of a new account functionality on SaxoTraderGO for its UK clients, before a planned roll-out in other regions by the end of
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SIX Swiss Exchange has successfully completed the upgrade of its X-stream INET trading platform. Alongside forward-looking improvements in performance and capacity, the stability of response times has been increased.
This means that market participants have even more reliable information on whether their orders have been executed, enabling them to act accordingly. This improvement plays a key part in fostering stable and orderly exchange trading.
When it comes to technology, SIX Swiss Exchange is one of the leading exchanges in the world. Its stock exchange system achieves top levels in terms of stability and availability. The latest upgrade to the
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AnaCap Financial Partners (AnaCap), the specialist European financial services private equity firm has competed an offering by AnaCap Financial Europe SA SICAV-RAIF (AFE) of EUR325 million of senior secured floating rate notes due 2024.
The offering took place through the new Luxembourg Reserved Alternative Investment Fund, AFE, building on AnaCap’s long track record investing in portfolios of performing and non-performing debt across Europe.
Justin Sulger (pictured), Head of Credit Investments at AnaCap Financial Partners LLP says: “AnaCap has been able to complete this transaction thanks to its long-standing track record in the European debt purchase sector. Another valuable component
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The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX) and its CCP subsidiary, Dubai Commodities Clearing Corporation (DCCC), have been recognised as a remote Exchange and Clearing House by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), the regulatory authority for the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM), enabling ADGM companies to access its trading and clearing platforms.
The recognition status takes effect immediately and enables financial institutions domiciled in the ADGM and licensed by the FSRA to become members of the DGCX, the region’s largest and most diversified derivatives exchange and clear through its globally recognised Clearing House, DCCC.
At present, Aarna Capital
- 24/07/2017
Tradeweb Markets, a builder and operator of global fixed income, derivatives and ETF marketplaces, has made a strategic investment in DealVector, a fixed income asset registry and communication platform.
The investment aims to enhance and leverage Tradeweb’s diverse network of liquidity pools, and help support new opportunities for DealVector’s innovative registry and anonymous, authenticated messaging solutions.
“We look forward to enhancing our offering by working with DealVector. Its pioneering technology aligns well with our goal to deliver differentiated capabilities that provide greater transparency, efficiency and connectivity to institutional investors,” says Simon Maisey (pictured), Managing Director and Global Head of
- 21/07/2017
Nasdaq, a leading provider of real-time market data and analytics to large institutions, financial professionals, and retail investors, has added four new data sets to the Nasdaq Analytics Hub.
The Hub debuted in May 2017 to address the growing needs of the buy-side to gain access to potential new trading and investment signals derived from the growing number of structured and unstructured data sets. The addition of these four new data sets provides insights from corporate filings, combinations of fundamental and technical factors, and two different approaches for long and short investing.
“Nasdaq is continuing to bring innovation and change to the
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Managed futures traders lost 0.98 per cent in June, according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge. This was the largest monthly decline so far this year as the Index is down 1.65 per cent through the first two quarters of 2017.
The BTOP50 Index, which tracks the 50 largest investable CTAs, also fell, registering a loss of 2.60 per cent in June, and is down 4.77 per cent for the year as well.
“The first half of 2017 has been difficult for the CTA industry,” says Sol Waksman (pictured), founder and president of BarclayHedge. “The combination of
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The most vital asset a business controls is its information. As the driver of many business processes, data is a powerful tool, and therefore has to be secure, accurate and accounted for. When this sensitive information gets into the wrong hands, it can cause serious damage to a firm’s business operations and reputation.
Types of dirty data
Forgotten data poses a critical security risk to financial firms. This type of data includes old reports, archived emails, outdated customer information and information that is stored on devices you may not realise (eg flash drives, scanners, printers, and video conference equipment). Verizon’s 2008
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BlueMountain Capital Management (BlueMountain), a diversified alternative asset manager, has appointed Claudio Macchetto as Head of Platform Distribution, a newly created position at the firm, effective 10 July.
In the role, Macchetto will be responsible for the marketing of BlueMountain’s diversified alternative investment strategies to wealth management channels and private banking platforms, as well as the management of retail distribution relationships globally.
“We are pleased to welcome Claudio to BlueMountain,” says Stephen Siderow, BlueMountain’s Co-President and Co-Founder. “He brings a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience working with top wealth managers and private banks. He will be instrumental in making our
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