Hedge fund returns were positive, led by CTAs, during the last week, mainly thanks to their long energy and bond positions, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Merger funds also benefitted from a rapid
By Don Steinbrugge (pictured), Agecroft Partners – With more 15,000 competitors, the hedge fund industry is extremely competitive. Many institutional investors are contacted by thousands of managers a year, meeting with a few hundred, have follow up meetings with fifty,
Leucadia Asset Management, has formed a strategic relationship with Dymon Asia Capital and made an investment in the Dymon Asia Multi-Strategy Investment Fund. In connection with the transaction, Leucadia Asset Management will acquire an economic interest in certain of Dymon Asia
Pirum Systems has launched IM Instruct which is designed to help users of OTC Derivatives instruct IM to the various Triparty and Third-Party Custodian collateral venues and replace the multitude of instruction operating models by delivering a single, automated, exception-based
International law firm Sullivan & Worcester has appointed Jennifer Pastarnack as a partner to lead its firmwide Global Debt and Claims Trading practice in New York.“At Sullivan, client relationships are at the core of our success. Jennifer brings that same
Transaction Network Services’s (TNS) TNSXpress Managed Hosting solution is now live at the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing’s (HKEX) hosting data centre.Traders wishing to gain speed and cost efficiencies can now colocate their trading infrastructure close to the HKEX matching
AcadiaSoft, an industry provider of risk and collateral management services for the non-cleared derivatives community, is to launch a joint initial margin analytics service with Clarus Financial Technology (FT). The service, enabled by AcadiaSoft’s Access application (part of AcadiaPlus), allows Clarus
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has launched the “InsightCommodity” platform giving users the possibility to establish a comprehensive overview of available data products, services and providers around the energy and commodity markets of EEX Group. Dr Marcus Mittendorf, EEX Director Market
Credit-focused hedge fund strategies spanning corporate credit, structured credit and convertible arbitrage made hay amidst a sustained positive investment backdrop last month.
Hedge funds are continuing to offload exposures that face a potential hit from the effects of the coronavirus, as Lyxor Asset Management forecasts a “transitory economic impact” from the deadly outbreak. As fatalities from the virus rose to 425, and
