Nuveen, an operating division of TIAA Global Asset Management, has completed the liquidations of the Nuveen Diversified Commodity Fund (CFD) and the Nuveen Long/Short Commodity Total Return Fund (CTF). As previously announced, each fund’s shares ceased trading and were delisted
ICE Futures Europe expects to launch a new one month, cash-settled futures contract based on the Sterling Overnight Index Average (SONIA) rate on 1 December, 2017. “We are pleased to introduce SONIA futures to our Sterling interest rate portfolio alongside
Japan Macro Advisors (JMA), whose clients include a few of the world’s largest hedge funds and global manufacturing companies, has launched "My Charts," a set of web-based analytical tools to help economists and decision makers stay on top of the
Over the past decade the funds of hedge funds industry has seen a long-term decline in AUM, falling to USD798 billion in June 2017, as investors have become increasingly sophisticated and withdrawn capital in favour of investing directly themselves. As
Minerva Capital Management, the New York based Asset Manager, has launched a new fund, the Minerva Catalyst Strategies LP Fund. Minerva is a deep value, bottoms-up, long-biased, hands-on activist fund. The founder and CEO Stanford Silverman (pictured), commented, “Minerva is
It is a trend that has steadily gathered momentum over the last five years and one that shows no sign of abating: namely that the big US hedge fund groups continue to get bigger and attract most of the institutional
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has achieved a new daily record in Phelix-DE Futures trading a total of 4.7 TWh, surpassing the previous record high of 3.0 TWh by more than 50 per cent. In another key development, the Phelix-DE
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has acquired a 4.7 per cent stake in Euroclear, a provider of post-trade services, including settlement, central securities depositories and related services for cross-border transactions across asset classes, for EUR 275 million. ICE anticipates having one representative
A new hedge fund launched last month by Union Bancaire Privée which trades on good and bad governance within Japanese companies has started positively – and portfolio manager Zuhair Khan (pictured) says the country’s patchy record on board oversight will continue to offer
Hedge funds seeking to take advantage of turbulence in the global aviation industry have lost almost EUR800 million in August, according to data from Ortex Analytics. Analysis of short positions against the world’s 10 largest airlines throughout 2020 shows hedge funds
