New analysis by quantitative hedge fund Two Sigma Investments reveals how last month’s ‘Reddit raid’ by retail traders upended factor-based investment metrics, as the fallout from the GameStop saga continues to reverberate across the hedge fund industry.
By Stephen Oxley (pictured), managing director, Institutional Relationship Group, PGIM – I read a prediction in one of those crystal-ball gazing missives that financial firms like to put out at the start of every year. It forecast that there will be continued
EFA is to use Refinitiv as its primary data source for Securities operations. This decision reinforces and expands the long-standing relationship between EFA and Refinitiv. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
The increasing democratisation of stock trading – and the growing impact of social media in market movements – is likely here to stay following last month’s GameStop frenzy, which could bring sweeping changes to the way hedge funds build short
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Envestnet Yodlee, a data aggregation and analytics platform specialising in consumer spending data analytics, says asset managers are increasingly seeking out such alternative data insights in their hunt for alpha.
The global hedge fund industry is currently facing headwinds from fee pressure, increased redemptions, and liquidations, with the situation being further worsened due to the decreasing number of launches of new funds, as investors around the world are more inclined
Japan’s macroeconomic backdrop is strengthening alpha-generating opportunities for hedge funds, with a growing number of newly-launched Japanese equity strategies looking to capitalise on a kaleidoscopic range of stockpicking ideas arising from market-friendly structural reforms, a pick-up in economic momentum, improving
The co-ordinated billion-dollar raid on hedge funds’ short positions in GameStop by amateur traders represents another risk management factor in a battalion of emerging challenges that now confront managers’ portfolios, industry participants say.
Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform, has launched historical funding statistical data on Bitfinex Terminal, a real-time market data feed. Bitfinex customers can obtain free access to key metrics of the funding market, such as the Flash Return Rate (FRR),
