Founded by a team of Italian former investment bankers, London-based activist hedge fund Bluebell Capital Partners has gained impressive momentum over the past year with its focus on listed, predominantly European large-cap companies.
Brummer Multi-Strategy CEO Mikael Spångberg says the firm is in a “good position” to deliver continued positive performance, after the flagship strategy posted its second-best annual performance to date – but he underlined the importance of generating alpha in the
Total global hedge fund assets under management have mushroomed to a record USD3.6 trillion, thanks to defensive outperformance and opportunistic gains during 2020’s upheaval – though the biggest firms continue to take the lion’s share of investor capital as smaller names are
IHS Markit is developing a USD credit spread adjustment for SOFR which utilises transaction data on commercial paper, certificates of deposit and corporate bonds issued by banking institutions. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Clearstream, a provider of post-trading services, will from 2021 onwards use software products from BearingPoint RegTech to meet most of their regulatory reporting requirements. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
CLS’s new post-trade monitoring and reporting tool, CLSTradeMonitor, is now live with its first asset management clients, including Mesirow Financial and Mountain Pacific Advisors, LLC. CLSTradeMonitor improves operational efficiency, provides transparency, and reduces operational risk for third parties currently settling
Accelerate Financial Technologies (Accelerate) has launched Canada’s first alternative investment portfolio ETF, the Accelerate OneChoice Alternative Portfolio ETF (OneChoice), that will list on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker ONEC on 27 January, 2021. Read the full story at
Genesis, a global financial markets software firm, has launched FX Prime, a trade capture application developed for FX & rates trading desks with Prime Broker integration. The application has been developed in partnership with XP Investments, United States based subsidiary
Bit.com, Matrixport’s secure derivatives exchange, is to launch bitcoin cash (BCH) perpetual swaps and options on 20 January, and 1 February, respectively.
By George Ralph (pictured), Managing Director, RFA – The coronavirus pandemic has brought considerable challenges to the way hedge funds and asset management firms do business, with far-reaching consequences for cybersecurity, data safety and business communications. The need for fully flexible
