Exchange Data International (EDI)m a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing and reference data services, has launched a flexible volatility dataset series. The buy-side, sell-side and their service providers have been prompted to take advantage of opportunities in the markets
By Don Steinbrugge, Agecroft Partners – The changing landscape caused by the Coronavirus will lead to the largest shake out in the hedge fund industry since the 2008 market crash. Below are some of the ways we believe the Coronavirus
Hedge funds globally have allocated at least USD59 billion to responsible investment (RI), according to a survey by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and the Cayman Alternative Investment Summit (CAIS). The survey of 80 asset managers with USD550 billion
With the US presidential election campaign rapidly gathering pace, the issue of political contributions – and the potential for conflicts of interest – has become a major issue on fund managers’ compliance radars.
Traders disagree over whether MiFID II has been successful, according to new research by SIX, with a combined 70 per cent of traders surveyed by the Swiss exchange believing that trading has become more transparent – a key goal of
Intensifying market competition in an increasingly crowded space is the top concern among credit fund managers, according to new research from global law firm Ropes & Gray. The report, ‘Driving Success: Challenges and Opportunities in Credit Fund Platforms’, analyses the
Performance remains top concern for alternative risk premia managers despite a better year for the industry, according to new research by MJ Hudson Allenbridge.The Alternative Risk Premia Fund Review was conducted using an online questionnaire with 34 asset managers participating,
CloudQuant says it has proven the value in the Precision Alpha Machine Learning Signals (PA Signals) alternative data set. Its detailed data science study shows a long-short portfolio outperforms the equal-weight S&P 500 ETF by an average of 37.9 per
Thomson Reuters has added sell-side research from Deutsche Bank, Kepler Cheuvreux and European Securities Network’s (ESN) to the Investment Research Marketplace (IRM) solution on its financial desktop platform Eikon. Thomson Reuters IRM was launched on Eikon in March 2018 to
Smartkarma, an investment research network for independent research providers, has launched Boost Research, an accelerator programme designed to support investment analysts who want to start independent research businesses. Boost Research aims to improve the overall supply of independent research to
