Liquidnet, a global institutional trading network, and Abel Noser Solutions have launched the pilot of Portfolio Manager Profiling. The model, when incorporated into Liquidnet’s Virtual High Touch Next Gen algo suite, links historical trade and TCA data with the portfolio
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for January 2018 measured 2.99 per cent. Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index meanwhile, advanced 0.92 per cent in February. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index for
Brave New Coin, a blockchain and cryptographic assets research company, has launched the General Taxonomy for Cryptographic Assets, the first global classification standard to capture the breadth, depth, and evolution of distributed ledger technology-based assets across industry sectors. The General
In line with the broader hedge fund market, Alternative UCITS funds profited from the rising volatility in fixed income and equity markets towards the end of the month. The LuxHedge Global Alternative UCITS index advanced with +0.93 per cent, the
Asian hedge funds posted strong gains in 2017, with the HFRI China Index topping the Shanghai Composite Index by the widest margin in a calendar year since Index inception in 2008, according to the latest HFR Asian Hedge Fund Industry
Startup Covalent has launched crypto indexes allowing investors to purchase a diversified portfolio of crypto currencies using the Covalent Bot. The company says this lowers the barrier to entry by reducing the need for investors to research hundreds of tokens
OpenFin, a desktop operating system built specifically for the needs of capital markets, has publicly contributed code to the Symphony Software Foundation that allows, for the first time, any OpenFin customer to deploy Symphony Chat on the OpenFin operating system.
The flash estimate for the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, indicates a 2.61 per cent gain in January. All of Barclay’s CTA indices enjoyed a positive return in January. “A seemingly nonstop rally in US equities that extended into
The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has published the first monthly relationship file that matches a Business Identifier Code (BIC) assigned to an organisation against its Legal Entity Identifier (LEI). With the launch of this open source file, GLEIF
Hedge funds have produced more consistent and steadier returns than equities or bonds over both the short term and the long term, according to new research by Preqin and the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA).
