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ION Investment Group (ION) is to acquire options technology and execution provider Dash Financial Technologies from Flexpoint Ford.
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CME Group has added 11 additional implied volatility benchmark indexes to its suite of CME Group Volatility Indexes (CVOL). Clients can now access two years of historical implied volatility data on CME Group’s CVOL indexes on WTI Light Sweet Crude Oil, Henry Hub Natural Gas, Gold, Silver, Corn, Soybeans and Wheat, along with the addition of both 5-Year and 30-Year Treasuries.
Together with the previously introduced indexes on 10-Year Treasuries and FX currency pairs, CME Group now offers 19 CVOL Indexes across five asset classes.
“Our clients continue to demand additional implied volatility information across a broader range of
Bardin Hill Investment Partners (Bardin Hill), an investment management firm specialising in credit strategies and event-driven equities, has held the final close of the Bardin Hill Opportunistic Credit Fund, LP and a parallel side-car vehicle with total commitments of approximately USD600 million.
The firm’s flagship closed-end Strategy received significant backing from new institutional investors globally, as well as from existing Bardin Hill clients.
The Strategy identifies and executes on stressed, distressed, process-driven, and special situations investments less correlated to global debt and equity markets with a focus on control-oriented opportunities in smaller and medium-sized capital structures. The Strategy is
Cboe Global Markets is to introduce early trading on the Cboe EDGX Equities Exchange beginning at 4:00 am ET, with order acceptance beginning at 3:30 am ET, from Monday, 8 March, pending regulatory approval.
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There is growing familiarity with Dutch hedge fund structures among investors which has been driving the jurisdiction’s fortunes as a continental alternative to Luxembourg and Ireland. Service providers in Amsterdam are welcoming this progress while also being discerning in their approach.
Allocations to hedge funds are set to increase in 2021, “2020 was largely driven by volatility and global macro-economic uncertainties. The defensive approach adopted by hedge funds, the ability to demonstrate uncorrelated performance as well as navigate these choppy waters successfully has positioned managers to draw in more institutional capital and also encourage more fund start-ups” comments Delphine Amzallag
By A Paris – The outlook for growth in the Amsterdam financial services industry is optimistic, driven by the Brexit fallout, an increased need for political stability and access to a diversified support eco-system which can help alternative asset managers thrive.
Event driven managers, particularly those running merger arbitrage and special situations strategies, powered hedge funds’ performance in January, as the industry overcame retail investor-driven stock volatility to finish the month in the black.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) and the Croatian Power Exchange (CROPEX) have signed an agreement to jointly develop a power derivatives market for Croatia.
Since launching in 2014, CROPEX, the local Power Exchange in Croatia, has actively grown its spot market, achieving a total trading volume of 6,447 GWh in their day-ahead and intraday markets in 2020. To further support this positive development, EEX and CROPEX have agreed to work together to introduce Power Derivatives for the Croatian market in 2022, subject to the approval of the relevant authorities and committees.
Dr Tobias Paulun, Chief Strategy Officer of EEX, says:
A spike in market volatility led CTAs and other managed futures hedge funds to hand back their initial early-year returns last month, as gains in commodities and bonds were outweighed by losses in currencies and equity indices.
Though two out of the three daily CTA benchmarks produced by Société Générale were in the black entering the final week of January, increasingly see-saw market patterns ultimately torpedoed the sector’s mid-month advance, SocGen said on Friday.
The main SocGen CTA Index, a daily performance benchmark comprising a select pool of 20 of the largest managed futures strategies, slumped to a 1.14 per
Alpha-generating opportunities surge in Japan, as economic recovery and market reforms gather pace
Alpha-generating opportunities surge in Japan, as economic recovery and market reforms gather pace