The stock market gamification seen in the Robinhood-GameStop trading saga is unlikely to end soon or draw major near-term regulatory actions, according to a major new report published by Bloomberg Intelligence (BI), North American Gamification of the Stock Market Report.
In recent months, Market Neutral L/S strategies underperformed other hedge fund strategies, in a context where risk assets rallied following the Pfizer vaccine announcement in November 2020. Lyxor’s stance on the strategy remains Underweight on the back of its exposure
Lukka, a crypto asset software and data provider, has partnered with global business information provider IHS Markit to redistribute Lukka’s institutional-grade blockchain and digital asset data products, including Lukka Prime and Lukka Reference Data, as part of the comprehensive IHS
AlgoDynamix, a specialist in behavioural based forecasting for financial markets, has launched powerful new Quantum Computing capabilities. The new cloud-based service uses technology provided by D-Wave Systems and is a world first in behavioural forecasting for financial analytics. The new
State Street Corporation has launched Insights, a new research platform that offers clients proprietary research, exclusive data-driven indicators and the latest market commentary from the firm’s team of global macro strategists. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Refinitiv has launched MarketPsych ESG Analytics, a new analytics tool to provide numerical ESG insights on companies and countries based on news and social media monitoring.
London-based regulatory compliance firm eflow is working with Refinitiv to further improve the existing market data store currently used in eflow’s trade surveillance platform TZ. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Hedge funds started 2021 on a positive note returning 0.98 per cent in January, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. By comparison, the S&P 500 Total Return Index was down 1.01
Vela, an independent provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has added the Cboe One Feed to its normalised market data service, SuperFeed. Vela’s SuperFeed is a fully managed, low-latency market data feed that delivers high-quality,
Only 31 per cent of senior financial professionals see London as the world’s leading financial hub, down from 34 per cent last year and a fall of 22 per cent since 2018. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
