As the first quarter of 2019 comes to an end, the latest Lyxor Hedge Fund Brief assesses recent hedge fund performance and the firm’s midterm outlook for hedge fund strategies. Lyxor writes: “The recent turnaround in the global monetary stance,
Sova Capital has become the first international Individual Clearing Member (ICM) firm on the Moscow Exchange’s Derivatives and FX Markets, as a direct member of the National Clearing Centre (NCC), MOEX’s CCP.
Broadway Technology, a provider of high-performance fixed income and foreign exchange solutions, has acquired 100 per cent of Barracuda FX, a global provider of FX order management technology. With this acquisition, Broadway will continue to expand its product suite and
Absolute Capital Management, the London-listed hedge fund manager that has been under a shadow since the dramatic walk-out last September of co-founder Florian Homm and the subsequent disc
Derivatives marketplace CME Group reached average daily volume (ADV) of 19.1 million contracts during March 2019, compared to 20.8 million contracts in March 2018. In addition, total daily exchange trading volume surpassed 20 million contracts on each of the final
Investor optimism spurred by a variety of favourable conditions pushed hedge funds to a solid start in 2019 with a 3.88 per cent return in January, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop
OKEx, a Malta-based digital asset exchange, recorded 223 per cent growth in monthly trading volume in the two months following its launch. Perpetual Swap is the latest product in OKEx’s derivatives lineup, with nine types of contracts available for trading
Net hedge fund industry inflows slumped to USD2.62bn during the first quarter of 2008, according to the latest Lipper Tass study.
Managed futures stumbled out of the gate to start 2019, with the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, down 0.43 per cent for the month. All but two of the Barclay Managed Futures indices were in negative territory for January,
IDFC Asset Management Company (AMC) has launched the IDFC India Equity Hedge – Tactical Fund, an AIF Category III offering, which will follow a Tactical Long/Short Equity strategy. The fund will have significantly higher net exposures, typically ranging between -40
