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Digital asset investment products continued to benefit from positive investor sentiment last week with inflows totalling $646m, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Financial services tech provider Iress has appointed Rob Kirby as Head of Sales and Business Development for the EMEA region at QuantHouse, part of Iress and a provider of API data feeds to hedge funds, investment banks, brokers, market makers, financial technology providers and trading venues.
6 Monks (6M) has been granted authorisation by the Luxembourg Financial Regulator, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), to provide Alternative Investment Fund Management (AIFM) services to third-party funds investing in Web3 and crypto assets.
Nomura has appointed hedge fund veteran David Seif as Managing Director and Chief Economist for Developed Markets. Based in New York, Seif reports to Rob Subbaraman, Head of Global Macro Research, and Paul Nikodem, Head of US Fixed Income Research.
Rising stars in the hedge fund industry are now considering factors beyond financial compensation as they strategise their career paths, according to Ilana Weinstein, Founder and CEO of the IDW Group, which calls itself a “leading boutique for hedge fund managers”, who spoke recently on Bloomberg Television. 
London-based macro hedge fund Rokos Capital Management saw a 12.5% gain in Q1 2024, with a 3.8% gain in March alone, benefiting from other macro traders’ wrong-way bets on the US Federal Reserve potentially lowering interest rates, according to a report by Bloomberg. 
A second straight year of losses has prompted Antara Capital, a $1.3bn hedge fund backed by Blackstone, to block redemptions from its illiquid assets by placing them in a so-called side-pocket, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Switching holdings from bitcoin and ether to solana and other ‘minor’ cryptocurrencies helped digital assets hedge fund firm Pantera Capital’s roughly $300m Liquid Token Fund record a 66% Q1 return, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The Swiss franc is beginning to attract long interest from hedge funds after weeks of wagers against the currency, according to a report by Bloomberg citing the latest data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
EEX Group’s global power markets continued their strong growth in March 2024, with a total of 1,057 TWh traded on the spot and derivatives markets (39% YoY). Volumes on the European power spot markets increased by 12% YoY, reaching a total of 72.9 TWh.

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