The Financial Conduct Authority has introduced a temporary ban on the short selling of certain Italian stocks, which will last until the end of Friday’s trading, in a move to calm the sustained frenzied selling following hefty slides in global
HSBC Global Asset Management has held the final close of its first dedicated HSBC Diversified Loan Fund, which combines both loan investing and direct lending within a fully managed, alternative credit solution. With close to USD800 million raised since its
The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) has conducted one of the largest co-ordinated series of enforcement actions by state and provincial securities regulators in the United States and Canada to crack down on fraudulent Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), cryptocurrency-related
Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin, has surpassed USD5 billion in market capitalisation.The importance of Tether (USDt) is growing as the stablecoin performs an increasingly vital function within the digital asset ecosystem. Notably, USDt is playing an
CloudQuant says it has proven the value in the Precision Alpha Machine Learning Signals (PA Signals) alternative data set. Its detailed data science study shows a long-short portfolio outperforms the equal-weight S&P 500 ETF by an average of 37.9 per
Hedge fund losses picked up in February with the industry down 2.81 per cent for the month, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. By comparison, the S&P Total Return Index was
Recent spikes in Korean stock market volatility following the global sell-off could see an upswing in margin calls in its autocallables market, potentially driving the index even lower, with investors taking advantage of the higher volatility to obtain higher yields.
Hedge fund, private equity and other asset management firms are using cutting-edge, values-based marketing technology to open new doors and build stronger relationship with allocators. This new Valuegraphics profiling identifies more precisely what drives investor decision-making, rather than relying on
FTI Consulting has launched FTI Capital Management (Cayman) Limited, a US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registered investment adviser focused on dealing with wind-downs of investment funds. FTI Capital Management offers a new alternative to extract value for investors by
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned -1.99 per cent in February, underperforming the -1.44 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The Wilshire
