Fixed-income electronic trading platform MarketAxess saw record global Emerging Market (EM) trading volumes of USD146 billion during 2015, a 30 per cent increase in trading volumes compared to the previous year. MarketAxess further expanded its group of global liquidity providers
Hedge funds gained 0.50 per cent in May according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. The Index is up 4.13 per cent in 2017. The Barclay Hedge Fund Index has now been profitable for seven months in
Recognos Financial, provider of AI based data management solutions for the financial services industry, has launched Recognos ETI, a new data extraction platform designed to unlock greater context and insight from otherwise untapped business data. Utilising the latest advancements in
Franklin Square Capital Partners, a manager of business development companies (BDCs), has unveiled an new structure for non-traded alternative investments that reduces fees and seeks to align the interests of investors, advisors, regulators and sponsors. The firm recently announced that
For the first time in several years, investors have begun expressing an interest in opportunities in Asia, according to Agecroft Partners. The firm says that investors have shared increasing concerns about the high valuations of both the US equity and
Hedge funds returned an average of 0.21 per cent in May 2017, and aggregate returns are +3.20 per cent YTD in 2017, according to eVestment’s Hedge Fund Industry Asset Flow Report for May 2017. May performance was led by funds
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for June 2017 measured 3.59 per cent, up from 3.08 per cent in May. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for June 2017 was 3.59 per cent, reflecting a sharp drop from the 4.88 per
Wholesale electronic trading platform ParFX has expanded the number of currencies in its offering with the addition of the Hungarian forint (HUF). In recent years, the Hungarian forint has become increasingly popular among the global FX trading community, with approximately 90 per cent of Hungarian forint trades executed outside of Hungary’s domestic
Mark Hawtin, Investment Director, GAM, on the challenges facing Apple… The numbers reported by Apple last night showed that Apple is struggling to grow in a smartphone market that is becoming saturated at the high end. The move to the iPhone
Up until recently, machine intelligence could only be used by large sell-side institutions and sophisticated quantitative trading groups to improve how they operated in the marketplace. But as technology advances continue to push the depth and breadth of machine learning
