A new report into the global crypto hedge fund landscape from PwC and Elwood Asset Management has shown Gibraltar as the third most popular jurisdiction for crypto hedge fund managers, behind only the US and UK.Gibraltar, which is also listed
As global equities markets on both sides of the Atlantic continue to flutter, credit and emerging markets are throwing up comparatively attractive trading opportunities, BlueBay Asset Management, the London-based fixed income and credit-focused hedge fund, said on Thursday. Against a
For a fourth straight year, the US insurance industry has reduced its hedge fund investments, by USD2.6 billion in 2019 to USD11.9 billion, with the property/casualty segment reporting a year-over-year reduction of 22 per cent, the largest among the major
Bill Prew, CEO of INDOS Financial, considers how fund governance practices have evolved to cope with the recent pandemic, and before it, the 2008 financial crisis. Despite challenges, Prew says boards cannot let standards slip nor take short-cuts, otherwise the
Alternative credit fund management is the focus of three new memos published by The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI), covering fund structuring considerations, valuation, and conflicts of interest.
Visible Alpha, an investment research technology firm, has launched ‘standardised industry metrics,’ a proprietary data set that enables market participants to quantify and compare market expectations for companies across 184 industries. With over 90,000 industry-level financial and operating metrics, Visible Alpha
As sustainable investing and ESG (environmental, social, and governance) trends continue to soar among hedge funds, new research by BlackRock suggests a majority of ESG-tilted investment portfolios have outperformed non-sustainable counterparts during this year’s coronavirus-fuelled downturn.
Refinitiv is adding Bank Bills pricing information to its real-time data feed, thanks to its newly-expanded partnership with trading platform Yieldbroker. Customers will receive critical information relating to short-term funding, balance sheet management, along with hedging strategies and necessary instrument
WorldCoinIndex has launched a cryptocurrency derivative market data platform.Launched in 2014, WorldCoinIndex has been serving the cryptocurrency community for over six years. Over this timeframe, the cryptocurrency ecosystem has developed at a rapid pace, and it doesn’t seem to be
High-conviction long-positioned hedge fund portfolios outperformed high-conviction short portfolios during the recent market meltdown, according to new MSCI research exploring how hedge fund managers navigated Q1’s unprecedented volatility surge. The study, authored by Donald Sze, executive director, MSCI Research and
