The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 3.19 per cent in November, outperforming the 2.82 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The Wilshire
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to global capital markets, has partnered with Singapore Exchange (SGX) to provide ultra-low latency connectivity for order entry and market data. Following an initial expansion to SGX in 2020, Options has now added
Digital asset exchange Bitfinex, and Koine, a London-based digital asset custody provider, have launched an institutionally oriented post-trade service, enabling investors to mitigate counterparty risk and the use of private keys in the clearing and settlement of cryptocurrencies.Koine customers gain
Following three years of development by Wall Street veterans, Leverj launched the first high-speed decentralised derivatives exchange, which provides spot and futures trading of cryptocurrencies. DeFi Exchange Leverj.io and liquidity providers are now launching futures products (Perpetual Swaps) for bitcoin and
This is the final part in a series of four articles from the Waystone Client Solutions Team, bringing you a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities presented by the shifting European regulatory landscape. Last week, David Morrissey offered his
HF Funds Services has appointed Monette Windsor as a Director in its Cayman Islands office. HF Funds Services, a member of the Equiom group, provides high-calibre independent directors to alternative investment funds and investment management companies.Previously, Monette was the Managing
Hedge funds betting against FTSE 100 companies suffered losses of almost USD1.5 billion last month, as bearish equity positions were struck down amid November’s strong stock market rally.
Avelacom, a high-performance global connectivity and IT infrastructure provider for the financial services industry, is adding the Brazilian Stock Exchange’s (B3) real-time market data to its service portfolio. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Electra Information Systems (Electra), a provider of award-winning post-trade solutions for the buy-side investment management industry, has introduced a unified application programming interface (API) for its Electra Data aggregation service to help investment managers meet their evolving data aggregation and
Social media networks are now “critical communications channels and sources of real-time data” for investment managers, presenting myriad opportunities – and potentially huge risks – to firms, and dramatically reshaping the way they trade portfolios, build investment ideas and communicate
