Hedge funds turned bullish on consumer stocks during the week ending 3 May as the latest economic data, including a softening in the US labour market, and comments by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell combined to revive bets on interest
Fidelity Prime Services, the prime brokerage of Fidelity Investments’s institutional trading arm, has appointed Jeffrey Cantafio as Vice President of Business Consulting in New York, where he will report to James Coughlin, Senior Vice President, Prime Services.
London-based quantitative macro-credit manager Tabula Capital will sell its parent European ETF business Tabula Investment Management, which was founded in 2018, to global asset manager Janus Henderson Group.
A bond market basis trade that has attracted the attention of regulators concerned about financial stability risks has helped hedge fund Exodus Point to chalk up a gain of around 2% for the year to the end of March, according
A regulatory crackdown in South Korea last year saw hedge funds Segantii Capital Management and Point72 Asset Management fined along with proprietary trading firm Jane Street Group and other investment firms, according to a report by Bloomberg.
New York-based diversified financial services firm Clear Street has made several senior-level hires within the prime brokerage business of its institutional division, expanding its derivatives, algorithmic and cap intro teams.
S&P Global has completed its acquisition of Visible Alpha, a financial technology provider of deep industry and segment consensus data, creating a new offering of fundamental investment research capabilities on its Capital IQ Pro platform.
April proved to be a busy month for portfolio manager appointments in Singapore, with six new positions filled at hedge funds either headquartered in or operating in the city state, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Ai For Alpha, a fintech specialising in AI investment strategies, has launched its “CTA Flows Oracle” technology, which intends to leverage the firm’s hedge fund strategy replication tech to predict flows of managed futures funds across asset classes.
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has launched insider trading criminal proceedings against hedge fund Segantii Capital Management, Founder and Chief Investment Officer Simon Sadler and ex-trader Daniel La Rocca.
