Singapore-based consultancy ComplianceAsia Consulting has launched iLearn, an online portal which provides compliance training programmes for Singapore’s asset managers, in partnership with the Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS).
DE Shaw’s flagship multi-strategy fund delivered net returns of +19.4 per cent for investors in 2020, according to a person familiar with the firm’s results. The DE Shaw Composite Fund (Composite), the firm’s largest fund, launched in 2001 and provides
After the successful start of the Nordic Intraday markets end of May, the European Power Exchange EPEX SPOT and its clearing house European Commodity Clearing (ECC) successfully launched their Day-Ahead markets in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, completing their offering
Balchug Capital, an event-driven and value investment manager with particular focus on emerging markets, has opened a new office in the Armenian capital, Yerevan. The firm’s head office is in Moscow.Balchug founder and CEO David Amaryan says: “I am of Armenian
Blackstone has appointed Joe Dowling, the former Chief Executive Officer of Brown University’s Investment Office, as Global Co-Head of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM) alongside John McCormick. Dowling will oversee BAAM’s investment activities going forward, while McCormick will oversee BAAM’s business
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 1.68 per cent in December, underperforming the 2.45 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The Wilshire
After a performance dip in May, June has been a positive month for CTAs, according to June 2018 performance data for Societe Generale’s SG CTA indices. The SG CTA Index gained 0.55 per cent. Trend followers performed even better and
At a time when global stock exchanges are experiencing intense volatility and speculative, high-volume trading as the Covid-19 pandemic impacts equities markets, Transaction Network Services (TNS) has reported its North American backbone network recorded zero packet loss during the highest
The current stock market rebound is “out of step with economic reality”, according to Pictet Asset Management’s chief strategist Luca Paolini. While the sustained market resurgence appears to have bolstered equity and credit-focused hedge funds’ returns during May, Paolini warned that
Hermez Network, a decentralised zero-knowledge rollup (zk-rollup), isa launch tether tokens (USDt) on the protocol’s Layer 2 network, a solution designed to improve scalability on Ethereum to ensure cheaper transactions. Hermez will work with key projects ahead of its official launch
