After five straight months in the black, hedge funds posted a negative number in September losing 0.65 per cent for the month, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. The hedge fund industry
AlphaSwap, an investment technology platform which bundles its analyst community’s best equity investment ideas for institutional customers, has onboarded its first institutional clients and completed a USD1 million fundraising, including venture funding from the UK government’s Future Fund.
MSCI ESG Ratings by MSCI ESG Research are now available via the Bloomberg Terminal. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Mercury Digital Assets​ (Mercury), a technology provider for digital asset markets, is partnering with ​Bit.com​, a secure, crypto derivatives exchange launched by Matrixport. This partnership enhances trading capabilities for both parties’ customers at a time of growing interest in crypto derivatives.
Merger arbitrage and event driven hedge fund strategies can capitalise on the recent pick-up in M&A activity globally, and help cushion investors’ portfolios amid potential risk aversion as a result of the US election, Brexit and a fresh Covid-19 surge
The biggest hedge fund managers are still lagging behind the wider industry’s performance on average in 2020, with larger strategies having fallen into the red over the past nine months while the industry overall is in positive territory, as hedge
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for September 2020 measured 0.75 per cent.Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index declined 0.82 per cent in October. “SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index
Spring Valley Asset Management, an alternative investment manager specialising in the application of systematic investment strategies, has launched the Commodity Advantage Portfolio.The portfolio pursues a multi-strategy systematic approach to investing across a diverse selection of highly liquid commodity markets (including
Janus Henderson Investors has launched an Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) Fund for institutional investors. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
MackeyRMS, a provider of SaaS-based research management software for investment teams, has launched ESG Scorecards to streamline investment selection, monitoring and reporting for ESG-focused portfolios.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager
