The State Street Global Investor Confidence Index decreased to 75.9 in August, down 8.7 points from July’s revised reading of 84.6. Investor confidence across all regions weakened, with the North American ICI decreasing from 80.3 to 72.5, the European ICI
Hedge fund performance fell in February as global equities declined, ending a streak of fifteen consecutive monthly gains for the broad-based HFRI Fund Weighted Composite Index. The HFRI FWC declined 1.8 per cent for the month, led by losses in
The average daily transaction value on the Euronext cash order book stood at EUR9,141 million in February, up 29.4 per cent compared to February 2017 and up 17.6 per cent from the previous month. On 6 February 2018, Euronext daily volume
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, has reported its strongest spot volumes in February 2018 with 112.4 TWh (previous record: 95.7 TWh in December 2017). Extreme weather conditions in the later part of the month helped bring
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) achieved a total volume of 274.3 TWh on its power derivatives markets in February, is a year-on-year increase of 37 per cent (February 2017: 200.8 TWh). In doing so, EEX was able to grow its
Hedge funds were unable to build on the previous month’s inflows in June with the industry moving back into net redemption territory with USD12.2 billion in outflows for the month. June redemptions, which represented 0.4 per cent of industry assets,
Investors withdrew another USD8.42 billion from the global hedge fund industry in July, according to the July 2019 eVestment Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report. But strong performance in the industry continues to boost overall industry assets under management (AUM), which
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index rallied 1.82 per cent in June, supported by the strong equity market performance on the back of optimism over the progress of US-China trade talk. Despite mixed economic data during the month, trade optimism and
Following a slight dip in May, CTAs bounced back last month, with all of Societe Generale’s SG CTA indices reporting positive performance. The SG CTA Index was up +2.45 per cent and built on earlier positive returns to +4.72% YTD. Trend
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index was up 0.62 per cent in July, bringing its year-to-date return to 6.48 per cent. Roughly 30.8 per cent of hedge fund managers in the index have recorded double-digit gains over the first seven months
