Man Group, the largest listed hedge fund group in the world, has published interim results to end June 2016 that show that funds under management are down from the end December figure of USD78.7 billion to USD76.4 billion. Net inflows
Incline Investment Management (IIM) is marking the fourth anniversary of its proprietary investment program, the Systematic Hybrid Strategy, which has outperformed its benchmark, the HFRX Macro: Systematic Diversified CTA Index by close to 25 per cent since its launch in
Operations technology startup Predictive has acquired 2338 Technologies, an early-stage, privately-backed startup developing machine learning technologies. The purchase price has not been disclosed. 2338’s technology will now power PredictiveOps, a SaaS application that is aiming to transform language in
Exiger, a regulatory and financial crime, risk and compliance firm, has acquired The Poseidon Group, a Hong Kong and Singapore-based due diligence and business intelligence firm. With the addition of Poseidon into its growing portfolio of specialised due diligence and
Boutique asset manager Unigestion has launched a long/short strategy, the second of two factor funds created in collaboration with its client Railpen, which were announced in January. The first of the strategies, the long only “Equity Compass” strategy, which launched
OptionMetrics, a provider of historical option price data, tools and analytics, has bolstered its global technology, development and operations team with the addition of veteran systems engineers, software engineers and quality assurance specialists. The new hires are a direct response
June has seen two events in the ETF calendar organised by firms who have overcome their market competitiveness with each other in favour of educating investors. The ETF Forum is an independent, UK-based partnership founded by ETF/ETP providers BMO Global
Activist Insight, a provider of news and data on shareholder activism around the world, has acquired New York-based data-provider Activist Shorts Research. Activist Shorts Research, founded in 2014 by Adam Kommel (pictured) and Wayne Gerard, profiles over 100 activist short-sellers
The open-end structure of most investment vehicles discourages asset-managers from trading against mispricing – to the detriment of investors and market efficiency, Oxford University research has shown. “The findings from my study, co-authored with Professor Mariassunta Giannetti from the Stockholm
BarclayHedge has ranked Elberon Investment Fund as one of the world's top-performing "long bias" equity funds for the three-year period ending on 31 March 2016. Elberon, which is managed by Bruce Salomon, ranked number eight globally and number two in
