CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, has announced that Micro WTI Crude Oil futures volume surpassed one million contracts on Friday, 6 August, 2021. “Since launching just a month ago, we continue to see strong interest
Independent fund administrator Centaur Fund Services has appointed Michael Marisca as Head of Business Development. Based in Centaur’s US headquarters in New York, Marisca will be responsible for overseeing and growing the company’s sales and revenue globally. Marisca has extensive
Managed futures funds produced a third straight positive month in April returning 1.43 per cent, according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. For the year to date, CTAs returned 3.80 per cent through
Digital asset investment products saw a fifth week of outflows totalling USD26 million, although the level of the outflows is lower than seen in either in May and June, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Report from CoinShares.
Exegy Inc, a global specialist in low-latency market data and execution solutions, predictive trading signals, and hardware-acceleration technology, has appointed Craig Schachter as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). In this newly created leadership role, Schachter will be responsible for setting and
Event driven strategies topped the hedge fund performance chart during the first three months of the year, as the industry drew some USD9 billion in new capital in Q1 and saw trading volumes surge, new analysis by hedge fund asset
Hedge funds’ nine-month consecutive run of positive returns has been halted, with managers ending last month in the red as market volatility and renewed uncertainty over the impact of coronavirus variants. Hedge Fund Research’s main industry-wide benchmark, the HFR Fund
The RM Targeted Investment Opportunities I strategy was launched in October 2020 by RM Funds to allow investors to capitalise on the market dislocation in real asset prices and listed securities created by the global health pandemic. Now closed, the
Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform, has made BIT Mode on Satoshi available to the exchange’s user base, enabling customers to divide their holdings into the smallest units of a bitcoin. SAT and BIT Mode is now available (1BIT =
Drawbridge, a provider of cybersecurity software and solutions to the alternative investment industry, has promoted Simon Eyre to the role of Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Eyre will drive Drawbridge’s corporate cybersecurity strategy and oversee infrastructure, security and privacy
