RepRisk, a specialist in ESG data science combining machine learning and human intelligence, has formed a strategic partnership with alternative data platform and marketplace BattleFin that will significantly expand alternative data buyer access to ESG risk data.RepRisk’s daily-updated dataset on
The C|T Group, an international strategic advisory and campaigns company, has launched C|T Solutions and Private Advisory (C|T SPA). From its base in London, C|T SPA will focus on providing actionable intelligence, investigative expertise, financial insight and strategic counsel both to
London-based research analysis provider Substantive Research has appointed Drew Hermann as Head of Sales, Americas, part of the firm’s expansion plan to build out its North American operations. In his role, Hermann will work closely with asset managers to source quality,
Jim Chanos, the president and founder of Kynikos Associates and one of the industry’s higher profile short-sellers, said that the evidence was almost irrefutable late last year that something was wrong with Wirecard.
AAAccell, an LPA Group company, has enhanced its suite of AI-based investment risk analysis and portfolio optimisation tools through a partnership with Swisscom, a major Swiss IT provider. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Managed futures funds turned in a second consecutive monthly gain in March returning 0.32 per cent, according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. For the year to date, CTAs returned 2.29 per cent
There is precious little to celebrate in the precipitous collapse of Wirecard, the German payments group whose shares have lost 90 per cent in a matter of days amid what now appears to be incontrovertible evidence of a massive and
Digital Asset Research (DAR), a leading provider of crypto asset data and research, has released its April 2021 Crypto Exchange Vetting and Asset Vetting results. Over 400 exchanges were evaluated during the latest vetting process to identify 19 Vetted Exchanges.
New hedge fund launches have slumped to lows not seen since the 2008 global financial crisis, while liquidations hit their highest level since the end of 2015, according to new analysis from Hedge Fund Research. HFR’s ‘Market Microstructure Report’ for
Following a ‘harmonious’ Q1, when global markets saw almost identical factor winners and losers, it was a definite case of ‘discord’ in May, with the month seeing global divergence in factor performance.
