Financial information firm Refinitiv has unveiled key enhancements to its ESG scoring methodology, making its company scores “more data driven than ever”. Accounting for industry-based materiality weighting of metrics, with minimal company size and transparency biases, the updated methodology allows investors
Savvas Savouri, chief economist and partner at long-running UK hedge fund manager Toscafund, says UK chancellor Rishi Sunak’s economic update has “supercharged” his confidence.
IHS Markit, a specialist in critical information, analytics and solutions, has launched its Data Lake, which comprises over 1,000 datasets in a single catalogued platform.
By Don Steinbrugge, Founder and CEO, Agecroft Partners – The massive dislocations in the fixed income markets in March caused huge divergence in performance among hedge fund managers with similar strategies.
A new report from iCapital Network has revealed a bullish attitude amongst senior advisors towards alternative investments for the coming year. Currently, 34 per cent of those advisors surveyed about their appetite and future plans for alternative investments have at
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index registered its strongest outperformance relative to underlying markets since October 2008, outperforming the MSCI AC World Index by 9.22 per cent in March.Long volatility and tail risk hedge funds topped the performance tables for Q1
Institutional investors in the UK and Continental Europe are boosting allocations to alternative income assets, such as infrastructure debt and equity, structured finance, real estate finance and private corporate debt, in the pursuit of stronger risk-adjusted returns and diversification. That’s
IOWArocks has added Marex Spectron into its rapidly expanding community of content creators and content consumers. Marex Spectron is a commodity broker, providing its global client base with an unrivalled breadth of coverage in metals, energy, and agricultural markets. Paul Watmough,
Virtual data room provider Intralinks has released the initial results of its 2018 LP Survey which, among other things, found that nearly two-thirds of the limited partners (LPs) queried expect to increase their allocations to alternative investments in 2018. “The
The Interactive Brokers Group has become one of the first brokerage companies to commit to in-depth monitoring of securities globally, following its deployment of the SIX Sanctioned Securities Monitoring Service (SSMS).The service, deployed in two waves between April 2019 (standard
