As investors look to strengthen portfolio performance amid a shifting economic landscape, a new Barclays study suggests hedge funds now offer “a compelling alternative” to fixed income allocations, and may prove key to bumping up returns as allocators adapt to
Avelacom, a low latency connectivity, IT infrastructure and data solutions provider for global financial markets, is partnering with LDA Technologies, a vendor of ultra-low latency FPGA products, to deploy FPGA-enabled devices across its network, further reducing latency and enabling high
In this wide-ranging Q&A, Arnaud Sarfati, CEO and co-founder of Paris-based quantitative asset manager LFIS Capital, discusses how the firm is tackling ESG implementation in its quant strategies, touching on portfolio constraints, evolving regulation, auditing concerns, and “data exhaustivity”.
Flows into digital asset investment products slowed to their lowest weekly figure since October 2020 last week at just USD1.3 million, according to the latest Digital Assets Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares. Worries over bitcoin mining issues in Xinjiang,
As the ongoing digital assets boom continues to throw up myriad investment opportunities for asset managers and investors alike, London-based Nickel Digital Asset Management aims to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the cryptocurrency market, offering a diverse range
The Intraday Power market, operated by EPEX Spot, grew by 3 per cent to 9.4 TWh in June (June 2020: 9.1 TWh), with the Dutch market achieving a record volume of 561 GWh (previous record: 472 GWh in May 2021).
Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital token trading platform, has upgraded the exchange’s matching engine in a move that bolsters the exchange’s capacity to handle spikes in volatility as volumes continue to surge, driven by increasing numbers of institutional investors entering the
Battea Class Action Services, a global expert in providing turn-key class and collective action antitrust and securities litigation recovery services, international litigation research and monitoring, has formed a new partnership with Apex Group. For more than 20 years, Battea has
Hedge funds betting against Sainsbury’s have taken a dent after the UK supermarket giant’s share price rose this week on the back of strong Q1 sales numbers, prompting the FTSE 100-listed firm to revise its profit outlook upwards. A number
Digital assets hedge fund BKCoin Capital has named Mark Treinkman as head of quantitative trading. Treinkman was most recently at Pattern Capital Management, where he had been a software developer, portfolio manager, quantitative trader, and financial advisor focusing on small
