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Integral, a technology company in the foreign exchange market, has reported average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms totalled USD50.5 billion in October 2021.
This represents an increase of +12.5 per cent compared to September 2021 and an increase of +15.3 per cent compared to the same period in 2020.
Integral’s global trading network has been designed to meet the trading needs of the widest variety of buy-side FX market participants, including banks, brokers, asset managers, and hedge funds. Its clients leverage the deep and diverse FX liquidity available through our platforms within an integrated environment.
Fund managers and investors remain split over how they integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors into their risk and investment processes, with industry participants citing a lack of clarity over data reliability, comparability and standardisation as the main challenge.
The SS&C SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for October 2021 measured 0.45 per cent.
Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index advanced 0.59 per cent in November.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index rose 0.59 per cent in November 2021, indicating positive net flows into hedge funds. This gain compares favourably to the 0.27 per cent increase reported a year ago,” says Bill Stone, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “With this strong result, hedge funds are on pace to finish 2021 with the highest rate of net inflows since the post-financial crisis year
Managed Funds Association (MFA), an organisation representing the global alternative investment industry, has announced the Canadian Association of Alternative Strategies and Assets (CAASA) as the first international member of the MFA Partnership Program.
CI Financial Corp (CI) has made a strategic investment in GLAS Funds (GLASfunds), a turnkey alternative investment platform and alternative asset management firm based in Cleveland.
Founded in 2009, GLASfunds is a tech-enabled platform providing investors with secure and streamlined digital access to institutional-quality alternative investment opportunities and asset management oversight. It has approximately USD1.1 billion in combined assets under management and assets under contract.
CI’s investment will strengthen GLASfunds’ offering to the broader market, while providing CI Private Wealth clients with enhanced access to alternative asset classes through a best-in-class platform.
“Alternative assets are an increasingly important part of
CTAs and trend-following hedge funds remain on track for their best annual performance since 2014’s landmark performance, with managers continuing profit from continued trends across bonds, equities, indices and commodities markets in the run-up to year-end.
Société Générale’s main CTA Index – which charts the daily performances of 20 of the largest CTAs, including funds managed by Man AHL, Graham Capital, Systematica, AQR, and Aspect Capital – remains up more than 9 per cent this year. It ended October on a high, generating 2.56 per cent for the month, though the first week of November has seen it give back
Insig AI, a data science and machine learning solutions company providing ESG solutions to the asset management industry, has now delivered its ESG scoring tools to CarVal Investors (CarVal), a global alternative investment manager, to support its risk scoring methodology.
This follows the Company’s previous announcement “Insig to support CarVal Clean CLO Product Line” released on 23 July 2021.
Insig AI’s ESG solutions supports CarVal’s ESG risk assessment model measuring each asset across six themes:
Climate Change, including carbon emissions and carbon footprint
Natural Capital, including raw material sourcing and water stress
Pollution, including toxic emissions and waste
Human
Hedge fund strategies have lagged stock markets and traditional equity/bond portfolios in recent years, driving down management and performance fees – but firms led by women and minorities are pulling ahead of their industry peers when it comes to returns, new data published by Bloomberg shows.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has launched the EEX Weekly European Cheese Indices (WECI) which will bring further price transparency to the European dairy market.
Launched in September 2019, the Trium ESG Emissions Impact Fund uses a market neutral long/short investment strategy to target high-emitting companies in hard-to-abate sectors – such as energy, mining and chemicals – where successful transformations in the form of decarbonisation and lower CO2 emissions can offer attractive long-term returns.
