Hedge fund managers ended July 2019 up 0.53 per cent on an equal-weighted basis, and 0.70 per cent on an asset-weighted basis, according to data released by Eurekahedge. Investor optimism towards the resumption of the US-China trade talks combined with
Following a strong start to the year, February has been challenging for CTAs, with all Societe Generale CTA Indices finishing the month in negative territory. The Short-Term Traders Index was down 4.29 per cent but remains positive YTD, up 1.19
PostFinance, one of the leading retail financial institutions in Switzerland, is a new shareholder of SIX, the operator of the Swiss financial market infrastructure. SIX’s shareholder base of now includes 127 banks and all significant participants of the Swiss financial
The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index decreased to 75.9 in August, down 8.7 points from July’s revised reading of 84.6. Investor confidence across all regions weakened, with the North American ICI decreasing from 80.3 to 72.5, the European ICI
Hedge fund performance fell in February as global equities declined, ending a streak of fifteen consecutive monthly gains for the broad-based HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index. The HFRI FWC declined 1.8 per cent for the month, led by losses in
Ogier has assisted Bletchley Park Asset Management (BPAM) as legal counsel on the launch of its first cryptocurrency fund. BPAM was founded by Lewis Fellas, a former portfolio manager at the Harvard Management Company, and Ronnie Potel, formerly an executive
McKay Brothers, a specialist in low latency networks, has secured a minority investment from Jane Street Group that will support the continued growth of McKay’s successful private bandwidth and market data businesses. Jane Street Group joins IMC, Tower Research Capital,
Strooga Consulting is pioneering new research on environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration by drawing on data solutions from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), a provider of corporate governance and responsible investment (RI) solutions for the investment industry. ISS’ robust extra-financial
TOBAM, a Paris-based research driven quantitative asset manager and founder of the Maximum Diversification approach, and China Asset Management Company (ChinaAMC), have formed a strategic partnership to develop a new Anti-Benchmark China A-shares equity investment strategy. The announcement that China’s
The average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR9,141 million in February, up 29.4 per cent compared to February 2017 and up 17.6 per cent from the previous month. On 6 February 2018, Euronext daily volume
