Investor confidence in hedge funds appears to be on the rise, with allocators pouring in some USD13 billion between July and September, the first quarterly net inflow into the industry in two-and-a-half years. New data published by Hedge Fund Research
As the hedge fund industry continues to grow and mature, managers are considering options beyond the traditional hedge fund structure. To this end, the managers and their service providers must be flexible and nimble to create custom solutions for the
Chronicle Software (Chronicle), a multi-asset low latency trading software provider, has expanded its global footprint with an office in Singapore to serve as an additional local base to support these requirements across the region.In line with the region’s rapid development,
The number of private funds being established in the Cayman Islands has continued to rise. This sector proved to be resilient and flexible as it swiftly adapted to a new regulatory regime and turned the additional oversight into an advantage.
Mercury Derivatives Trading, a global futures proprietary trading firm with more than 500 traders operating in markets on six continents, has deployed Eventus Systems’ Validus platform for trade surveillance.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Despite an unprecedented number of new regulations being introduced into the Cayman Islands over the past 18 months, the jurisdiction has shown itself to be remarkably resilient, with the Islands’ funds industry in particular rising to the challenge and demonstrating
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, registered a total volume of 130.4 TWh in June 2018 (June 2017: 167.7 TWh). The overall spot volume increased by 25 per cent over the previous year, following the upward trend
The quality of research skills among hedge funds and other investment managers is closely tied to their ability to generate alpha in portfolios, a new deep-dive industry study has found. Inalytics, a UK-based research outfit that aims to identify and
By Jude Scott, CEO, Cayman Finance – As the unprecedented year that has been 2020 draws to a close, we can look to the year ahead with some optimism. That’s in part due to the resilience of the Cayman Islands
CLS, a provider of settlement, processing and data solutions, and SIGTech, a technology provider to quantitative investment managers, are teaming up to provide CLSMarketData clients with access to SIGTech’s back testing environment and analytics platform.Through the collaboration, CLS clients will
