Liquidnet, a technology-driven agency execution specialist, has appointed Eric Blake as Head of Latin America with responsibility for expanding the business in the region by identifying new sources of actionable liquidity for both local and international asset managers.
Digital asset inflows reached $901m last week, pushing year-to-date inflows to US$27bn, nearly triple the record annual high seen in 2021, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly Report from CoinShares.
Vantage Point Asset Management is increasing its stakes in Japanese equities and the US dollar, anticipating that a Donald Trump victory in the upcoming US presidential election will boost global growth and keep inflation elevated, according to a report by
Shanghai-based Power Asset Management has closed its options arbitrage strategy following significant losses amid recent market volatility, making it the latest Chinese hedge fund to be impacted by unpredictable stock movements linked to government stimulus efforts, according to a report
White Elk Partners, the global macro hedge fund firm founded by Carl Radford and Michael Rothlin, has marked its one-year anniversary by securing a licence to operate as a registered Investment Manager in Hong Kong.
CoinShares, a European specialist in digital assets investments has established a new US central office based in New York City, strengthening the company’s presence in the world’s largest financial market.
Code Willing has launched the CWIQ platform to help quant hedge funds streamline data analysis workflows for model development, simulation, and backtesting, allowing research teams to focus on data science, feature engineering, and alpha generation.
Hedge funds are increasingly shaping the European dividend market, with futures on Euro Stoxx 50 Index dividends, once driven largely by autocallable product hedging, now seeing heightened activity from multi-strategy hedge funds employing various derivatives, according to a report by
Hedge funds, asset managers, and other speculators moved into bullish dollar positions in the week ending 22 October, holding around $9.2bn in long dollar bets, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission compiled by Bloomberg.
Balyasny Asset Management, the $20bn-plus multi-strategy hedge fund firm founded by Dimitry Balayasny, has strengthened its natural gas and power trading business in Denmark with the appointment of Federico Censi as a Gas Trader, according to a report by Financial
