Japan’s macroeconomic backdrop is strengthening alpha-generating opportunities for hedge funds, with a growing number of newly-launched Japanese equity strategies looking to capitalise on a kaleidoscopic range of stockpicking ideas arising from market-friendly structural reforms, a pick-up in economic momentum, improving
TriOptima, an infrastructure service that helps to lower costs and mitigate risk in OTC derivatives markets, has completed the first triReduce enhanced compression cycle to include SONIA risk replacement trades. The cycle took place on 22 October, 2020 at LCH SwapClear.
The co-ordinated billion-dollar raid on hedge funds’ short positions in GameStop by amateur traders represents another risk management factor in a battalion of emerging challenges that now confront managers’ portfolios, industry participants say.
CMC Markets Institutional – a provider of liquidity and white label trading solutions – has extended its liquidity distribution through a partnership with Gold-i.Brokers, banks and hedge funds using Gold-i’s multi-asset liquidity management platform, Matrix, can now access nearly 10,000
The sharp dispersion in hedge fund performance is having a more noticeable impact on where investors choose to allocate – and withdraw – their money this year. New industry research shows that while allocators removed USD9.6 billion from hedge funds
Assured Capital Partners’ Balanced Growth Fund had another extraordinary year in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic, narrowly missing out on surpassing a 40 per cent return for the third time in the fund’s existence. According to hedge fund database service
Bridge Mutual, a decentralised, peer-to-peer discretionary coverage platform for digital assets, has partnered with AllianceBlock, a decentralised, blockchain-agnostic layer 2 protocol that bridges traditional and decentralised finance. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Brevan Howard, the high-profile global macro hedge fund manager founded by Alan Howard, has rehired Cove Capital founder and CIO Louis Basger, who previously spent six years at Brevan in Geneva. Before setting up his own Geneva-based manager, Basger was
AcadiaSoft, a provider of risk and collateral management services for the derivatives community, has acquired capital markets consulting and software company Quaternion. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
The Hedge Fund Association (HFA), an international nonprofit trade and nonpartisan lobbying organisation, has added new HFA Officers, Regional Directors and Committee Leaders. HFA’s leaders are all elected and appointed volunteers that work on behalf of the entire alternative investment
