Hedgeweek exclusive: Lombardi Capital founder – and ex-Soros PM – Igor Kryca explains why some US investors are wrong about European equity markets and highlights the opportunities the lack competition is creating.
The European Power Spot Market, operated by EPEX SPOT, saw a 7% increase in trading volume year-on-year in February, reaching a total of 53.2 TWh. Day-Ahead trading registered a 3% growth, while Intraday Markets trading increased by 19%.
It’s been easy for digital asset hedge fund managers to look back of late. But what lies ahead? Consolidation, opportunity, and the looming question of regulation.
Institutional allocations to digital asset funds – a genuine prospect this time last year – have been delayed again after the events of last year. But other investor types see opportunities.
It’s been a little over three months since the collapse of FTX Trading and its cryptocurrency exchange. For fund managers, that’s a lifetime.
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling $76 million last week, the fourth consecutive week of positive flows, taking year-to-date inflows to $230 million, and indicating a change in investor sentiment, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Hedgeweek exclusive: Albourne Partners’ Travis Williamson (pictured) and Steven D’Mello explain why, following the collapse of FTX, counterparty due diligence has become more important for all active trading strategies.
Hedgeweek exclusive: Mike Novogratz, the CEO of Galaxy Digital, gives his thoughts on the state of the digital assets hedge fund industry at the end of the first month of 2023 – and sees signs of progress.
CTAs delivered record gains in 2022, the fourth consecutive year of positive performance across all strategy types, according to the 2022 CTA Performance Report from the Capital Consulting group of Societe Generale Prime Services.
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Market commentators say sweeping write-downs on private assets next year could see institutional flows rebalance in favour of hedge funds as fees, liquidity and capacity issues focus minds.