While closing 2020 up 30.93 per cent, Quantumrock’s flagship strategy Volatility Special Opportunities Program (VSOP) fell by 0.2 per cent in January. Michael Zeller, CIO, says: “The market experienced a bumpy road in January. While the S&P500 rallied over 2
2gether, a collaborative crypto-trading platform, has released new data showing crypto trading on the platform jumped 2.5 times in January 2021, totalling EUR37 million. January’s numbers represent the highest trading volume in 2gether’s history. Over the last four months, a
Since launching last summer, BNP Paribas Asset Management’s Environmental Absolute Return Thematic (EARTH) hedge fund has generated a striking double-digit return, trading long and short positions in energy, materials, agriculture and industrial companies across both developed and emerging markets. The
Falcon Investment Management a multi-manager hedge fund platform, has launched its first loss program to support early-stage hedge fund managers with seed and acceleration capital. The program is designed to align interest between investors and managers. Through first loss structure, managers receive
Exchange technology specialist Exberry, Digital Asset, creator of the open source Daml shared ledger development framework, and Baymarkets, developer of the Clara clearing system, have teamed up to create an exchange infrastructure with central counterparty clearing functionality. This partnership will
By Stephen Oxley (pictured), managing director, Institutional Relationship Group, PGIM – I read a prediction in one of those crystal-ball gazing missives that financial firms like to put out at the start of every year. It forecast that there will be continued
Digital asset investment firm Techemy Capital has launched its Holistic ETH-BTC Portfolio in partnership with on-chain asset management company Enzyme Finance (formerly Melon Protocol). Powered by digital asset data infrastructure company Brave New Coin, the Holistic ETH-BTC Portfolio is an
Ogier has promoted investment funds specialists Emma Sutherland and Tim Cone to partner. Sutherland, who joined Ogier in 2017, specialises in the structuring, formation and ongoing operation and regulation of Cayman Islands hedge and private equity structures. She has extensive
Emerging Asset Management Ltd (EAM), a provider of turnkey solutions for alternative fund launches, has reached the milestone of USD1 billion in assets under management (AUM). EAM provides the services required to support managers investing alternative asset classes so that
Bitfinex Derivatives has launched perpetual contracts for litecoin/bitcoin and polkadot/bitcoin, offering usersup to 100x leverage. Both will be settled in bitcoin (BTC). “We’re pleased to add to our growing list of perpetual contracts available to trade on the exchange,” says
