The UCITS HFS Index lost 0.71% in the third week of January but is still up 0.03% month to date (by business day 15, January 21st, 2010). Out of the eleven sub-strategies only Arbitrage was able to add returns
Jefferies has added six professionals to its quantitative strategies sales and trading effort, which includes algorithmic trading and other quantitative-based trading solutions for inst
Lucera Financial Infrastructures is making its infrastructure available to power electronic trading by financial institutions and high-frequency trading (HFT) firms. Lucera’s platform enables customers to accelerate time-to-market, high speed connections to marketplaces and exchanges, and reduce operational and regulatory risk
Morningstar has added OTC Markets Group data (previously known as Pink OTC Markets) to its Morningstar Quotes Data Feed. This latest addition complements the existing realtime and fundamental data sets, with realtime pricing data of more than 10,000 OTC securities.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has obtained an emergency federal court order freezing the assets of defendant Anthony Eugene Linton of Tucson, Arizona, dba The Private Trading Pool. The court’s order also prohibits the destruction of books and
The Supervisory Board of European Commodity Clearing (ECC) has appointed Dr Götz Dittrich as a new member of its Management Board. As of 1 January 2019, Götz Dittrich will take over the function of the Chief Operating Officer of ECC.
Prisma Capital Partners has appointed six staff, including three senior members, in the areas of portfolio management, operational due diligence and marketing.
The average Alternative UCITS fund is continuing to have a difficult time in terms of performance in 2018, with the LuxHedge Global Alternative UCITS Index posting a loss of 0.59 per cent in November, bringing YTD results down to -3.64
BI-SAM, a provider of performance attribution and reporting software solutions for the global asset management industry, has announced several new appointments, increasing its presence in Asian markets. The AuM growth in the Asian Asset Management market is driving the need
The Capzanine Situations Spéciales fund is providing financial and strategic support to Legal, the leading independent French coffee roaster. Affected by a fire in 2016, Legal had to meet medium-term financing needs to finish the modernisation of its industrial tooling
