Total global hedge fund assets under management have mushroomed to a record USD3.6 trillion, thanks to defensive outperformance and opportunistic gains during 2020’s upheaval – though the biggest firms continue to take the lion’s share of investor capital as smaller names are
The London Metal Exchange (LME) has issued a discussion paper on market structure, putting forward a set of proposals designed to enable the Exchange to modernise and adapt to emerging trends and evolving customer needs. The proposals aim to achieve
The Derivatives Service Bureau (DSB) has released its second and final consultation paper regarding user fees and contracts for 2019. Industry feedback is being sought on open topics including potential changes to user support services, service level agreements, and resiliency,
StatPro Group, an AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analysis and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has acquired ODDO BHF’s regulatory risk services bureau, for an undisclosed sum in cash. The acquisition adds a full, managed
Data and analytics company BMLL has made the BMLL Data Feed available to sell side participants on the Kx Streaming Analytics platform. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Hector McNeil (pictured), co-Founder and co-CEO, HANetf presents his most recent commentary, arguing: The Case for Non-Transparent Active ETFs. Growth in the ETF industry is sustained, long-term and global – at the time of writing, there have been 51 months
A survey by Market Intelligence specialists, Acuiti, commissioned by Avelacom, a global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, has found that in their efforts to stabilise trading revenues, proprietary trading firms are overwhelmingly interested in trading
The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has identified the key priorities where financial market infrastructures (FMIs) should focus in the coming years to proactively and effectively manage risk in a post-pandemic environment. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
An unprecedented number of delays when sending out orders to market is costing hedge fund managers USD20 million per year, according to new research from TradingScreen. A combination of operational inefficiencies and trade errors cause the majority of delays, while high
Tickeron, an artificial and human intelligence platform delivering trading insights and analysis, has launched a new AI Robots tool for cryptocurrency trading.Read the full story at Wealth Adviser
