As global economies prepare to unlock, potentially driving up inflation and interest rates, hedge funds’ low sensitivity to rate moves can help bolster investors’ portfolio performance, says K2 Advisors, the hedge fund investing unit of Franklin Templeton.
New research from ETP provider GraniteShares shows nearly two out of three professional investors predict shorting of US tech stocks will increase over the next six months with nearly a fifth forecasting a dramatic increase. Its study with hedge funds,
Procensus, an opinion sharing community for institutional investors, has launched a premium service which extends access to the platform’s benchmarking data to corporates, capital markets bankers, alternative asset managers and regulatory authorities, providing them with enhanced market intelligence. Read the
More than a quarter of decision-makers in buy-side financial firms (28 per cent) cite fragmented and unreliable data management infrastructure that struggles to cope with increasing data volumes as the biggest data management challenge they face, according to the results
Chronicle Software (Chronicle), a provider of low-latency technology solutions for the financial services industry, has expanded Chronicle FIX connectivity providing simplified access to additional pools of FX and cryptocurrency liquidity. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Law firm Seward & Kissel represented opportunistic credit manager Kennedy Lewis Investment Management in connection with its strategic partnership with York Capital Management to form Generate Advisors. Read the full story at Private Equity Wire…
A London based alternative investment manager with in excess of USD1 billion of assets under management has signed an annual license for Insig AI’s proprietary Data Tool. This contract win follows successful client testing and enables the client to structure
Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager, and CoinDesk Indexes, a subsidiary of CoinDesk Inc, have launched the Grayscale Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Fund, a new diversified investment product, and the CoinDesk DeFi Index. Grayscale DeFi Fund (the Fund)
AccessFintech and SIX have partnered to provide Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) eligibility and penalty data to joint CSDR customers. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) continues to register strong market interest and growth in its Japanese Power Derivatives products. From January until June 2021, a volume of 3,519 GWh was traded in Japanese Power Future contracts. This is more than
