A new survey of institutional investors and hedge fund managers has found that nearly seven in ten survey participants expect that equity markets will rise if tax reform is enacted by the US Congress and an even greater percentage expect
S&P Global Market Intelligence’s latest Hedge Fund Tracker analysis shows hedge funds bought USD2.2 billion in financials sector stocks, USD1.8 billion in energy sector stocks, and USD1.7 billion in healthcare sector stocks in Q3. In all, seven of the 11
Exchange turnover in structured investment and leverage products on Europe’s financial markets stood at EUR27.6 billion at the end of September 2017. This represents a significant 6.0 per cent increase year on year. Turnover fell 5.0 per cent from the
Macroeconomic and financial market research veterans Chen Zhao, Tony Boeckh and David Abramson have partnered to launch Alpine Macro – an independent research firm dedicated to providing unique analysis, insights, forecasts and actionable investment strategy recommendations. Chen, former Chief Global
Liquidnet Europe Limited, has extended its use of the big xyt analytics Liquidity Cockpit platform to monitor execution quality of its products along with cross-checking market volumes. big xyt is providing Liquidnet execution analysts with an interactive application to monitor
Visible Alpha has acquired Alpha Exchange, a research, discovery and management platform for investment professionals. Visible Alpha says that the addition of Alpha Exchange’s technology platform to its existing services will create a unified consumption and collaboration experience across research
Quant Insight (QI), a macro research firm providing discretionary asset managers with actionable investment ideas, has made its research available via the RSRCHX platform. Connecting QI’s investment ideas and the RSRCHXchange marketplace means portfolio managers can now seamlessly purchase QI
Grupo CIMD, the main independent brokerage, consulting, securitisation and asset management group in the financial and energy markets in southern Europe, has gone live with MDX Technology’s (MDXT) data distribution solution. The move is aimed at supporting increasing client demand for
The Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA) has partnered with eFront to provide members with eFront Data Intelligence (EDI). EDI, formerly known as eFront Investor Cloud (EIC), provides limited partners with access to high quality and verified private market data at
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned -0.51 p[er cent in October, underperforming the -0.22 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The Wilshire
