Global institutional advisory firm Cornerstone Capital Management has been named as “Best 130/30 Strategy Hedge Fund” for 2016 by Hedgeweek. The award celebrates Cornerstone’s outstanding performance in the long-short equity fund strategy and underscores the team’s ability to navigate the
CME Group, in its capacity as joint administrator and calculation agent for the LBMA Silver Price, and Thomson Reuters, are implementing new measures to further enhance and develop the LBMA Silver Price Benchmark, based on ongoing consultation with participants and
Agecroft Partners has announced its leadoff Institutional Investor and Consultant panel for the Gaining the Edge – Hedge Fund Marketing Leadership Summit taking place in NYC on 28 April. Panelist will include: Craig Bergstrom, CFA, Partner, Chief Investment Officer, Corbin
New investments into hedge funds in February 2016 were a trickle at USD4.4 billion with performance losses of USD24.5 billion dropping overall industry AUM to USD2.94 trillion, according to the February 2016 eVestment Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report. February has
The total value of funds business in Guernsey grew by GBP2.7 billion (1.2 per cent) during the fourth quarter of 2015. Figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) show that, at the end of December 2015, the net asset
Cowen Group is to acquire CRT Capital Group’s credit products, credit research, special situations and emerging markets units. The acquired business will be named Cowen Credit Research and Trading and will focus on distressed debt, special situations and emerging markets.
Violin Memory, provider of all-flash storage platform solutions for primary storage and active workloads, and Stream Financial have launched FlashSync, a Data Portal Appliance that aims to provide ultra-high performance access to and interrogation of multiple data sources. FlashSync has
Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network’ buy-side community of more than 800 asset managers can now trade Taiwan-listed securities directly and anonymously with one another through its platform. The addition of the Taiwanese market continues Liquidnet’s expansion in Asia-Pacific and
IndexIQ’s IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF (QAI) has been named “Best 40 Act Liquid Alternatives Fund” for 2016 by the readership of Hedgeweek. QAI, the oldest and largest liquid alternatives ETF, will mark its seventh anniversary in the marketplace on
iCapital Network, a financial technology platform that provides the high-net-worth market with access to alternative investments, has acquired Credit Suisse’s HedgeFocus business. The HedgeFocus portfolio contains more than 20 hedge fund access vehicles representing approximately USD1.8 billion in assets in
