Powernext, part of EEX Group which belongs to Deutsche Börse, held the first auction of Guarantees of Origin (GO) for the French State on 18 September, 2019. In August 2018, the French Ministry for an Ecological and Solidary Transition appointed
Cartica Management, a majority women-owned active investor focused on improvements in corporate governance, environmental, and social factors in the emerging markets, has appointed Kate Ahern as Managing Director of ESG and Sustainability. Ahern will lead Cartica’s ESG practice, overseeing the
Hedge fund capital increased in the first quarter of the year, rising to a seventh consecutive record as investors reduced equity market beta in favour of M&A-focused Event-Driven (ED) exposures and fixed income-based Relative Value Arbitrage (RVA) strategies. Total hedge
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform of EEX Group operated by Powernext, registered 153.1 TWh on its Futures segment in July 2019. Those strong results were driven by the great performance of the Dutch TTF, which has reported its second
The Exchange Council of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has welcomed plans to merge current Powernext activities into EEX from the 1 January 2020. The council believes that the harmonisation of Powernext and EEX, will enable the exchange to offer
Equity hedge fund manager Valley Forge Capital Management (VFCM) has surpassed USD500 million in assets under management (AUM). Founded by Dev Kantesaria, VFCM runs a long-biased equity strategy that employs a bottom-up fundamental approach to find high-quality businesses that trade
Hedge fund redemptions slowed from the prior month’s pace in July, though outflows continued for a second straight month as the hedge fund industry experienced USD8.1 billion in net redemptions. July’s redemptions, which represented 0.3 per cent of industry assets,
BarclayHedge’s newest index, the Barclay Cryptocurrency Traders Index, dropped 29.2 per cent in March. Year to date, the Index is down 43.1 per cent after three consecutive monthly losses. “Within days of the launch of Bitcoin futures, Bitcoin rose to
Hedge Funds lost 0.64 per cent in March according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, versus a 2.54 per cent decline in the S&P 500 Total Return Index. Year to date, the Barclay Index is down 0.07 per cent,
An ongoing bond market rally that pushed 30-year US Treasury and German bond yields to all-time lows helped to propel managed futures funds to a profitable August with CTA funds returning 2.23 per cent according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by
