Backstop Solutions Group (Backstop), a cloud-based productivity suite for institutional and alternative investors, and Mercer, a business of Marsh & McLennan, have formed a strategic alliance which will make Mercer’s institutional investment data, forward-looking research and ratings available through Backstop’s
Investors have continued to withdraw capital from hedge funds following disappointing returns – but newly-launched products aimed at tapping into this year’s market dislocations could be boosting renewed allocator interest, new research by eVestment shows.
Private credit managers are on track to provide some USD100 billion of real economy financing this year, as investors increasingly turned to the sector as a resilient portfolio hedge and diversifier amid equity market ruptures during 2020’s coronavirus pandemic. New
Most hedge fund industry employees have been working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic, but now firms are split over when staff should return to work and when businesses can resume face-to-face contact with investors and other clients, a new study
OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for international institutional investors and academic researchers, has launched a new version of its IvyDB Asia database. IvyDB Asia 2.0, which includes historical data for option markets in Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and
eVestment, a specialist in institutional investment data and analytics, has become the first institutional investment platform to offer access to the Alpha Nasdaq OCIO Indices. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
CubeLogic, a provider of enterprise risk management solutions, has launched a new Risk-as-a-Service (RaaS) offering developed in partnership with Numerix and IOWArocks. The new service delivers advanced credit, market and compliance risk analytics in a flexible, scalable solution with both end-of-day
Rebounding equity markets and credit spread tightening led to meaningful sequential-quarter recoveries of fund performance and balance sheet investment valuations for alternative investment managers (alt IMs) in Q2 2020, with the correction in liquid markets bolstered by unprecedented Fed stimulus,
Investment managers in UK are prioritising alternatives, multi-asset, and ESG fund launches for 2020, citing rising demand outside the traditional asset classes, according to a new report from Alpha FMC. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Alpha Sigma Capital (ASC), a digital assets fund focused on delivering growth capital to blockchain and tokenised projects has launched what it says is the first-ever fundamental research model on blockchain companies with tradable digital assets and blockchain ecosystems that are
