The hedge fund industry added to its gains in April, returning 2.14 per cent as the industry posted a sixth consecutive month in the black, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions.
Brummer & Partners’ flagship multi-strategy fund has slipped into the red so far in May according to mid-month estimates, with a sharp dispersion in returns across its underlying equity, macro and trend-following strategies – but the long-running Stockholm-based vehicle remains
July volumes for EEX Groiup’s Intraday Power markets grew by 12 per cent y-o-y, with Spanish Power Futures up by 22 per cent. As of 27 September, EEX will extend calendar year expiries for this market as well as for
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has set a new milestone in its Power Derivatives business by becoming the No1 platform in Japan Power Futures trading in less than 12 months. In the first quarter of 2021, EEX achieved a 96
Hedge fund performance was broadly positive in April, with 85 per cent of funds reporting to eVestment seeing positive performance figures and the industry as a whole posting a return of +2.61 per cent for the month, according to the
CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, has reported July 2021 market statistics, including average daily volume (ADV) of 17.1 million contracts during the month, the highest ever recorded. Interest rate monthly ADV increased 96 per
Stockholm-based Brummer & Partners’ flagship multi-strategy hedge fund vehicle remains flat for the year after ending July close to zero, with its equities-focused strategies suffering negative performance last month. Brummer Multi-Strategy (BMS) fell 0.1 per cent in July in both
EM sovereign credit initiated a rebound at the turn of the quarter (+3 per cent QTD) as Treasuries bounced back after having registered the worst quarterly returns since the early 1980s (-4.3 per cent for the Barclays US Treasuries in
Using data from HFR and Eurekahedge, AlternativeSoft selected five funds with the highest 2020 returns to see if simple momentum has generated strong returns in 2021. The five funds generated returns between 149 per cent and 300 per cent in
AirCarbon Exchange (ACX), a fully digital exchange for voluntary carbon credits with real-time trading and settlement, has executed transactions representing 3,603,284 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) during the first six months of 2021. Most of the trading on
