Hedge funds, as measured by the Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index, were up 2.2% in the first quarter of 2011, posting positive performance in each month of the quarter, according to the latest hedge fund industry review published
BGC Partners has launched BGC Trader for Yen Interest Rate Swaps (IRS). BGC is the first interdealer broker to launch a fully electronic platform for the Yen IRS market. This new market offering utilises BGC Trader, BGC's proprietary multi-asset, integrated
Bolsa Mexicana de Valores is migrate its current real-time, proprietary market surveillance system to Nasdaq’s SMARTS platform. SMARTS has international standards built into all of its monitoring processes, allowing for seamless consolidation of supervisory duties and making these duties more
HS Group Ltd (HSG) is to make its first investment into a new hedge fund set up by Kenneth Lee and Michael Yoshino, former China and Japan specialists at Soros Fund Management. The duo will be joined by an experienced team,
Elsen has closed a USD400,000 round of funding for its financial technology platform, which allows hedge funds to run financial models and algorithms faster and more efficiently. Elsen plans to use this capital to accelerate growth and add additional resources
Long-known for secrecy and operating in the shadows of investment and finance, hedge funds will become increasingly transparent and more active on social media in 2015, according to Peppercomm. “Secrecy is no longer going to work for many hedge funds,”
Investors, consultants and hedge fund managers are now able to conduct sophisticated risk analysis, construct and optimise portfolios and generate reports on hedge funds' performance and risk via a native iOS Risk-AI Fusion app. Risk-AI Fusion is the first ever,
The London Metal Exchange (LME) has announced plans to enhance participation and liquidity on its electronic platform, LMEselect. The LME is focusing on increasing liquidity on standard monthly dates to provide a simpler way to trade existing LME futures. “Our
The Dow Jones Credit Suisse Hedge Fund Index finished up 1.80% in April, with estimated new asset flows totalling USD9bn. Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index Co., LLC, says, "Nine out of ten sectors posted positive performance for the
Over 20 per cent of hedge funds frequently misrepresent important information about funds and their performance to investors, according to a study by NYU Stern Finance Professor Stephen Brown. With co-authors William Goetzmann from the Yale School of Management, Bing
