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The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has registered its first dry bulk freight derivative trade for clearing last Friday, marking an important milestone for its new global commodities segment.  The trade was registered for 90 lots of the Q4 2016 Capesize 4TC contract at a price of 8,750 US Dollar per lot. The trade was conducted by Gunvor Group company Clearlake Shipping, and another counterparty, having been arranged by the broker Freight Investor Services. Steffen Köhler, Chief Operating Officer of EEX, says: “The trade in our freight sector represents another important landmark for EEX. With these trades, we are entering a
Purdue University's Center for Commercial Agriculture and the derivatives marketplace CME Group are partnering to produce the Purdue/CME Group Ag Economy Barometer, a monthly nationwide measure of the health of the US agricultural economy. The introduction of this new economic indicator underscores the importance of the agricultural economy and its participants – food producers and agribusinesses – to the overall US and global economies, Purdue and CME Group said Tuesday (May 3) in announcing the partnership. "Agriculture is a critical component of the global economy and has been the cornerstone of CME Group's business for nearly 170 years," says CME
The Portfolio Amalfi™ platform by Nedelma Inc. offers multi-asset, multi-language, multi-currency dynamic reporting and data visualisation, as well as analytical capabilities to the asset management industry. The platform also offers data aggregation tools, portfolio management solutions and a calculation engine. Users can analyse and view data from multiple perspectives using a combination of attributes, formulas and values, with extensive options for dynamic customisation.  Nedelma also has an online investor document repository with document approval workflow and interactive reporting.  "Everybody in the financial industry cares about four factors – improving performance, increasing transparency, raising assets and reducing costs. Our products help
Hatteras Funds, a provider of alternative investment solutions for Financial Advisors and their clients, has restructured its Managed Futures Strategies Fund (HMFIX) to provide greater transparency and reduce overall fund expenses for investors.  Hatteras has cut fees by 20 per cent bringing the total overall expense ratio to 1.99 per cent for the I shares. The Hatteras Managed Futures Strategies Fund (HMFIX) is a multi-manager solution that offers Financial Advisors and their clients a portfolio diversification tool with the benefits of low correlation to traditional stocks and bonds. The Fund provides access to two experienced investment managers, ROW Asset Management
LoCorr Funds has hired Wayne Wagner as Vice President, National Account Manager. Wagner will be responsible for expanding distribution through new selling agreements, deepening existing relationships and expanding partnership opportunities with LoCorr’s top broker/dealer partners. Wagner, who brings nearly 25 years of financial services experience to LoCorr Funds, was most recently with Ameriprise Financial as the VP, Head of Wealth Management Consulting where he built the external Wealth Management Consultant team focused on serving the affluent client base. Wayne also spent more than eight years with Principal Financial Group in Phoenix, where he was a VP/Divisional Sales Manager for the
One year after launch, the RWC Nissay Japan Focus Fund has delivered significant outperformance versus the index generating +7.2 per cent for its investors versus the TOPIX’s decline of -11.7 per cent, making it the third best performing fund out of 265 within the Lipper Japan UCITS peer group. The fund is an actively managed portfolio of Japanese equities with a strong focus on active engagement with those companies. Through positive and constructive shareholder engagement, the team aims to help boards unlock value and so generate alpha within the fund.    Management teams in Japan are seeing increased scrutiny on
CME Group’s April 2016 volume averaged 13.8 million contracts per day, up 21 per cent from April 2015.   CME Group April 2016 options volume averaged 2.6 million contracts per day, up 15 per cent versus April 2015, with electronic options averaging 1.6 million contracts per day, up 31 per cent over the same period last year.  Total open interest at the end of April was 110 million contracts, up 20 per cent from year-end 2015. Interest rate volume averaged 5.5 million contracts per day in April 2016, up 8 per cent from April 2015, while equity index volume averaged
Three out of six of the MVIS suite of investable Long/Short Equity Indices recorded positive performance in April. Each index is constructed using transparent, liquid ETFs and US Treasury securities to produce hedge fund-style returns without hedge fund pricing, opaqueness and redemption restrictions. The MVIS Global Event Long/Short Equity Index led the way with a return of 0.42 per cent, followed by the MVIS Western Europe Long/Short Equity Index (0.39 per cent) and the MVIS Emerging Markets Long/Short Equity Index (0.31 per cent). The month’s biggest loser was the MVIS Global Long/Short Equity Index with a return of -0.51 per
 Many Hedge Funds historically have used futures to gain exposure to indices, but this may be set to change, according to research by exchange traded fund (ETF) provider Source. The overall costs of ETFs have been trending lower, making them more competitive compared to futures based on the same underlying indices, especially when considering the additional costs of ‘rolling’ futures at each expiry period. Three of the six indices that Source regularly monitors had more expensive futures rolls in the December 2015 expiry period compared to the relevant Source ETFs. This was in spite of asset managers reducing their net
Nir Regev’s Regev Group, which is based in Missouri, has joined DFPG Investments, a national independent broker-dealer and RIA. "We are very pleased that Nir identified the fit with our firm," says DFPG's CEO, Mike Bendix. "Nir brings a lot of value to DFPG, not the least of which is his stellar reputation and respect from so many industry peers and partners."  Nir Regev (pictured) says: "Part of the draw to DFPG was the established expertise they provide relating to alternative products, which I consider important to my practice. But the tipping point for me was DFPG's people. I recognised

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