Investment management business Fidante has acquired a minority stake in Latigo, a fund manager specialising in event-driven investing. As part of the transaction, the Life division of Fidante’s parent company, Challenger Limited, has made an investment in Latigo’s funds. Founded
Cboe Global Markets has announced the settlement of the March expiry Cboe bitcoin (XBT) futures, the third contract settlement conducted since its launch in December. The settlement price was USD8,236.11, as determined by the 4:00 pm ET Gemini1 Exchange bitcoin
The hedge fund industry overall had a negative month for returns in February losing 2.01 per cent, according to eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Performance report, with managed futures funds producing their largest monthly loss in over 20 years, down 7.03
Active investment manager Allianz Global Investors (AllianzGI) has launched the Allianz US Micro Cap Equity Fund, which will be available as an OEIC (Open Ended Investment Company). The fund aims to provide UK investors with access to US micro-cap equities
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) increased its volume on the power derivatives market by 4 per cent in August to 282.2 TWh compared to the previous year (August 2018: 271.3 TWh). The Dutch power market recorded the largest growth rate
Tikehau Capital, an alternative asset management and investment group, and T&D Insurance Group, a major Japanese insurance company, have agreed to enter into a business and capital alliance. T&D Insurance Group is one of the largest life insurance groups in
Markov Processes International (MPI) has launched a hedge fund index business line that will aim to provide investors with improved benchmarks for measuring hedge fund performance. MPI recently partnered with BarclayHedge to create the MPI Barclay Elite Systematic Traders Index
Hedge fund managers ended July 2019 up 0.53 per cent on an equal-weighted basis, and 0.70 per cent on an asset-weighted basis, according to data released by Eurekahedge. Investor optimism towards the resumption of the US-China trade talks combined with
Following a strong start to the year, February has been challenging for CTAs, with all Societe Generale CTA Indices finishing the month in negative territory. The Short-Term Traders Index was down 4.29 per cent but remains positive YTD, up 1.19
PostFinance, one of the leading retail financial institutions in Switzerland, is a new shareholder of SIX, the operator of the Swiss financial market infrastructure. SIX’s shareholder base of now includes 127 banks and all significant participants of the Swiss financial
