Cayman Islands-domiciled Montreux Natural Resources fund has come in as the second best-performing hedge fund in Preqin’s Global Hedge Fund report with a return of 142 per cent over the last 12 months, driven by the surging gold price and
Societe Generale Prime Services reports that CTAs continued their good performance from June with all CTA indices posting positive returns in July. The SG Trend index, measuring the performance of the largest ten trend-following based CTAs, was the best performing
The hedge fund industry produced an aggregate return of 1.91 per cent in October, bringing YTD returns to near flat for 2015, but still negative at -0.80 per cent, according eVestment’s latest Hedge Fund Performance report. The industry’s last annual
Hedge fund managers are experiencing the ripple effects of new regulations on banks and prime brokers, with hedge funds facing increased trading fees and broader changes to business relationships. These dynamics place additional pressure on margins and are leading managers
After a strong September, CTA strategies posted lower returns across the board in October 2015, with all managed futures indices calculated by Societe Generale Prime Services in negative territory. The Newedge CTA index was down 1.15 per cent in October
smartTrade Technologies has added a margin credit functionality to its end-to-end low latency FX trading platform, LiquidityFX. smartTrade's LiquidityFX platform has seen increasing adoption by a large variety of clients looking to move from their incumbent platforms to a flexible non-volume
Average daily volume (ADV) at the CBOE Futures Exchange (CFE) was down 28 per cent from September 2015 and 44 per cent from October 2014's record-setting volume totals. However, on a year-to-date basis through October, volume was up 2 per
BCS Financial Group, the largest broker of securities on the Moscow Exchange, has overcome challenging market conditions in Russia in the first six months of the year to achieve significant growth compared to the first half of 2014. Despite a
Liquidnet saw record third quarter performance in Europe as institutional investors increasingly searched for size and improved execution quality, ahead of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) rules taking effect in January 2017. These rules are expected to
Six months after the transfer of agricultural products to the European Energy Exchange (EEX) the exchange registered a significant volume record on its dairy future markets. This is also the highest daily volume ever traded on a futures market for
