Rebounding equity and energy markets caught some in the managed futures industry on the wrong foot in June, leading the CTA industry to a 0.22 per cent monthly loss, according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge. Year-to-date CTAs were
Everysk Technologies, an investment technology company providing multi-asset portfolio analytics with data-centric, machine learning techniques, has closed a USD1.3 million seed financing round and is launching a first-ever automation system that brings real-time portfolio and risk management analytics to fund
Quest Partners, a New York-based systematic CTA, has carved out a strong track record over the past two decades, tapping into market opportunities arising out of volatility swings and increased tail risk in assets using a nimble short-term approach that
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2020 measured 3.02 per cent, up from 3.11 per cent in March.“SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2020 was 3.02 per cent, up somewhat from the 2.51 per cent reported for the same
The market rebound since 23 March has fuelled strategies with a higher market beta such as Special Situations (+3.8 per cent) and Directional L/S (+1.7 per cent), according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team. The former
C8 Technologies has partnered with LGBTQ Loyalty Holdings to make the the LGBTQ100 ESG Index tradable for investors around the world. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
The dramatic price movements in oil markets will continue to throw up trading opportunities, according to Westbeck Capital Management’s CIO Will Smith, whose commodities-focused strategy has notched up double-digit gains during the sustained volatility.
A new company, LedgerEdge, has been launched by David E Rutter with the aim of building an ecosystem for the interchange of data and assets in the corporate bond market. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
March was as much a liquidity crisis as it was a response to the economic impact (actual and presumed) of Covid-19, according to new research by bfinance’s Diversifying Strategies team, headed by Dr Toby Goodworth, into the performance of several
By Xavier Parain (pictured), CEO, FundRock Management Company – The impact of Covid-19 has altered the mechanics of almost every profession, and the fund management is no different. Here are four things that we have learnt about the way that fund
