The hedge fund industry reversed two consecutive months of losses in November, returning 5.54 per cent for the month, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. By comparison, the S&P 500 Total
Challenger data provider, Exchange Data International (EDI), has written to the CFTC, the heads of the relevant Committees of the US House of Representatives, and the US Senate – which oversee the CFTC – requesting they investigate the CME Group’s
TRG Screen, a provider of enterprise subscription spend management solutions, has acquired the Market Data Reporting (MDR) business from Jordan & Jordan (J&J). Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Social media networks are now “critical communications channels and sources of real-time data” for investment managers, presenting myriad opportunities – and potentially huge risks – to firms, and dramatically reshaping the way they trade portfolios, build investment ideas and communicate
IHS Markit has extended its Data Lake to support unstructured content using the latest natural language processing (NLP) technologies. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Vela, an independent provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, is now offering execution services for US Equities and Equity Options.The new execution capabilities are available on Vela’s low-latency DMA Platform as well as its automated
Quincy Data has expanded its offering with the addition of US treasuries data, using sister company McKay Brothers’ microwave network to transport the data to Aurora, IL in under four milliseconds, the lowest latency available. Read the full story at
Style Analytics, a London and Boston based factor analysis firm that is now a part of Investment Metrics, has partnered with Australian-based asset consultant and research advisory firm, Foresight Analytics, to deliver decision insights, advice and direction to its myriad
The world has witnessed an unprecedented explosion of data over the last few years. Most of us will be familiar with the term Terabyte, which represents 1012 or 1 trillion bytes of data. But such is the data-drenched world in
Ayush Ansal, chief investment officer at the hedge fund, Crimson Black Capital, comments on the prospects of the UK leaving the EU without a deal…“With a No-Deal departure from the EU now arguably odds-on, the UK is heading for the
