Thinknum, a leading provider of web-sourced alternative data, has secured USD11.6 million in Series A funding round. Participants included Green Visor Capital, one of the original investors in the firm’s USD1 million seed round in 2014. Thinknum will use the
Five of the six hedge fund strategies covered by Dow Jones Hedge Fund Indexes posted net-of-fees gains in April, although event-driven is still the only strategy tracked by Dow Jones that
Morgan Creek Digital is to be the lead anchor investor in Ikigai Asset Management’s flagship fund focused on executing systematic and fundamental liquid hedge fund strategies as well as opportunistic venture-stage crypto asset investments. Ikigai is a crypto asset management
Over the weekend, software giant Microsoft dropped its three-month-old bid to buy internet firm Yahoo! because the two sides cannot agree on an acceptable price.
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for March 2019 measured 3.49 per cent, up from 3.42 per cent in February. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for March 2019 was 3.49 per cent, an uptick from the record low March redemptions
Hedge funds extended their winning streak to a second month with a February return of 1.24 per cent, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge. By comparison, the S&P 500 Total Return Index rose 3.21 per cent
Peer-to-peer mortgage trading platform LendInvest has completed its first block trade of loans. The block of five bridging loans were purchased by a hedge fund that is looking to gain exposure to the UK mortgage market. LendInvest, which was
Nordea Asset Management (NAM) has expanded its ESG fixed income offering with the launch of the Nordea 1 – Emerging Stars Bond Fund. Building on the success of NAM’s Stars fund range in the equities space, the asset manager has
Hedge fund strategies that suffered in December rebounded last month (L/S Equity, Relative Value Arbitrage), while those resilient at the end of 2018 (CTAs) lagged behind, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. Looking at
IPM, a Stockholm-based systematic asset manager, has completed the transfer of the sub-fund MS IPM Systematic Macro UCITS Fund from the Morgan Stanley FundLogic Alternative UCITS platform to the new IPM UCITS Umbrella ICAV (IPM UCITS ICAV), following Morgan Stanley’s
