After posting negative returns throughout Q3, the Preqin All-Strategies Hedge Fund Benchmark returned to positive territory in the first month of the final quarter of the year with a gain of 2.07 per cent in October. All top-level strategies and
Global Macro and CTAs outperformed the hedge fund space and delivered positive returns last week amidst difficult market conditions. We reaffirm our overweight stance on these two strategies.
Celoxica, a provider of accelerated market data, order entry and pre-trade risk solutions for the electronic trading community, has extended its Celoxica Feed Handler and Gateway portfolio to further support Interest Rate Markets by including the BrokerTec and Nasdaq eSpeed
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, is to introduce locational spot products on 17 November 2015, supporting the physical balancing of French Transmission System Operators (TSO) and German Market Area Manager (MAM). As a result, GASPOOL and
Tokyo-based hedge fund manager Sparx Group has launched the Sparx OneAsia Long Short UCITS Fund, a Pan-Asia market neutral strategy, on the MontLake UCITS Platform. A subsidiary of the long established Sparx Group, Sparx Asia Investment Advisors is based in
100 Women in Hedge Funds (100WHF), a nonprofit organisation for investors and professionals in the alternatives industry, has raised USD1.36 million for 100WHF Foundation to support its Celebrating Education – Investing in the Next Generation initiatives. The announcement was made at
London-based credit long/short hedge fund manager Palmerston Capital, which was set up by ex-JP Morgan credit trading head Stuart Wain, has closed its Founder Share Class as assets under management now total USD264 million. The fund has returned 9.55 per
Macro Risk Advisors (MRA) raised USD332,000 during the firm's fourth annual charitable trading day on 29 October, with the firm donating all of the net commissions earned from option, stock and ETF trades to charity. The four organisations to benefit from
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has recorded its highest trading volume to date in Japanese Power Futures. Throughout the month of October, EEX achieved a total traded volume of 111 GWh, thereby setting a new monthly record.Having launched in May
Hedge funds continued to face a difficult market environment in October as for a second consecutive month the majority of funds saw performance declines. The average return in the hedge fund industry came in at -0.21 per cent in October. The
