
Tide may be turning for market neutral hedge funds
Equity market neutral hedge fund strategies could be set for a reversal of fortunes, as trading conditions normalise towards 2020’s midway point.

Equity market neutral hedge fund strategies could be set for a reversal of fortunes, as trading conditions normalise towards 2020’s midway point.

Hedge funds and asset managers must design portfolios to successfully weather volatile markets, and “invest heavily” in technology, rather than focus on predicting the next downturn, says Man Group chief investment officer Sandy Rattray.
FlexTrade Systems, a global leader in multi-asset execution and order management systems, has integrated QuantHouse’s QuantFEED Solutions for market data into the FlexONE OEMS. The newly certified FlexONE integration with QuantHouse is a complete single-source front-end buy-side service offering that
The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has established a new regional committee focusing on the SBAI’s work in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA Region). Elena Manola-Bonthond, CIO of CERN Pension Fund, has been appointed Chairman and Doc Horn,
Data management and analytics solutions provider, Asset Control, has appointed a new director, Stef Nielen, to focus on the firm’s growing buy-side customer base. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Inflows into digital asset investment products totalled USD233 million last week, the largest inflows since early March, according to the latest CoinShares Digital Assets Fund Flows Report. While price action last week pushed assets under management to over USD65 billion
A total of 250 clients have now committed to use the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) Global Trade Repository (GTR) service to meet their forthcoming European Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) reporting obligations. This is an 80 per cent increase
Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel), the fast growing investment manager connecting traditional finance with the digital assets market, has appointed Simeon Tsonev as a Senior Option Trader. Tsonev joins from BNP Paribas Asset Management, where he was a currencies portfolio
London-based research analysis provider Substantive Research has appointed Drew Hermann as Head of Sales, Americas, part of the firm’s expansion plan to build out its North American operations. In his role, Hermann will work closely with asset managers to source quality,

Global macro hedge fund Arete Capital Partners is tilting towards shorter-duration assets amid an evolving rate environment which carries far-reaching consequences for inflation and the cost of capital.