HFR Europe and Calyon have signed a license agreement to offer structured products based on the HFRX investable hedge funds indices.
The Lyxor L/S Equity strategy outperformed this week, mostly from beta, according to the latest Weekly Brief from the firm’s Cross Asset Research team. L/S Equity returns were homogeneously red in December, and green in January. Yet, a number of
Fortis Bank Information Banking is boosting the European rollout of its Prime Fund Solutions platform with the establishment of an Italian subsidiary.
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the global hedge fund trade association, has expressed concern about the European Commission’s new draft text for the implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). The European Commission proposed the new text
QuantHouse, an independent provider of systematic trading solutions including market data services, algo development tools and global network infrastructure has been selected by Quest Partners (Quest) to support the diverse needs of the firm’s automated traders. Quest specialises in research-driven,
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the largest institutional fund manager in the world, has launched its first absolute return currency fund.
Blockchain technology company Currency.com has launched a fully-functional trading platform for tokenised securities, which allows investors to trade, invest in, and benefit from exposure to, real-world financial instruments by directly using cryptocurrencies. Currency.com is accessible to all types of investors
UK-based global macro manager Emergent Asset Management Limited (EAML), is a macro hedge fund that is also involved in an innovative joint venture in the Argenti
GMEX Technologies (GMEX), a provider of multi-asset exchange and post-trade business and technology solutions, has launched ForumCustody and ForumWallet, part of the GMEX Fusion product suite, to include Digital Custodian and Vault capabilities. GMEX Fusion delivers digitally enabled hybrid trading
MarketAxess Holdings Inc has introduced REXIQ: Reducing Execution Costs, a new proprietary approach to analysing trading costs in the fixed-income markets that has been developed by MarketAxess Research. In highly liquid markets such as equities, a number of sophisticated approaches
