Hedge funds are up 0.43 per cent so far in 2018, their weakest performance on record since 2008 when they declined 0.23 per cent in the seven months up to July, according to the August 2018 Eurekahedge report. Almost 49
Fund manager Peter Lucey is planning to launch a new risk mitigation fund, Bull & Bear, on 1 October. Although only 30, Lucey (pictured), already has nearly a decade of fund management experience. After building his previous fund, Arsenal Advisors
Singapore-based hedge fund, Canning Park Capital, is launching a fund to target equities in large-cap companies across As
Abacus Group, a provider of hosted IT solutions for hedge funds and private equity funds, closed out 2012 with 100 per cent annual revenue growth. In addition, the company has doubled its client base in the last 12 months, propelled
Seix Investment Advisors, an affiliate of Virtus Investment Partners, has appointed Michael Tamasco, CFA, as managing director, Institutional Sales. Tamasco (pictured), has more than 25 years of experience developing new business globally, managing investment strategies and trading fixed income securities.
Vela, an independent provider of trading and market access technology for global multi-asset electronic trading, has partnered with CoinMarketCap to provide cryptocurrency data via Vela’s Market Data Feed service, SuperFeed. The partnership will provide Vela’s institutional client base with normalised
Apex Fund Services is expanding its North American fund administration services and client base with the opening of its Canada office in Toronto. Apex Fund Services (Canada) will be managed and run by Alex Chapman. He was formerly vice president
DWS has appointed Clarence Ng as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Alternatives Asia Pacific business, and Chief Operating Officer (COO) for DWS China. In these newly created positions, Ng will be responsible for managing the implementation of all financial
CFA UK’s latest Valuations Index, which measures investors’ perceptions of the value of equities, bonds and gold, indicates a risk-off mentality amongst investors in Q2 2018, with those polled seeing most value in safe haven assets. According to the Index,
Newedge, a multi-asset clearing and brokerage firm, has executed and centrally cleared over USD2bn in client interest rate swaps on the Eris Exchange platform, an exempt board of trade under CFTC regulation, with clearing services provided by CME Clearing. Newedge
