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The SSW Group, which carries out proprietary trading in the asset classes of equities, ETPs and bonds, has launched a flagship private cryptocurrency fund as part of its expanding digital asset offering. The fund is managed in Gibraltar by SSW Group.Founded in 2004, the Germany-based group focuses on liquidity provision, with automated trading and efficient scalability, which the company has developed into an algorithmic-trading pioneer. The group combines state-of-the-art hardware with co-locations across the world to develop intelligence trading strategies.
In addition to traditional asset classes, SSW Group has now expanded its trading business also to crypto tokens and
In recent years, the relative underperformance of hedge fund strategies compared to the S&P 500’s returns prompted many institutional investors to cast doubt on the value of this industry to their portfolios.
But the dramatic swings in markets brought about by the coronavirus pandemic this year have proven a wake-up call for investors, according to Nicolas Gaussel, founding partner and CEO of Metori Capital Management – and firmly demonstrates the worth of a non-correlated trend-following strategy to investors.
Paris-based CTA specialist Metori was established in 2017 by a team of former Société Générale and Lyxor Asset Management employees, who spun out
CMC Markets Institutional – a provider of liquidity and white label trading solutions – has extended its liquidity distribution through a partnership with Gold-i.Brokers, banks and hedge funds using Gold-i’s multi-asset liquidity management platform, Matrix, can now access nearly 10,000 different instruments from CMC Markets across a range of asset classes, all at highly competitive rates.
In addition to FX pairs, Gold-i clients can select from a wide range of indices, commodities, treasuries and single stock CFDs. Institutional clients wishing to extend their offering to include digital assets have the option to choose from 15 different cryptocurrency coins and indices.
The sharp dispersion in hedge fund performance is having a more noticeable impact on where investors choose to allocate – and withdraw – their money this year.
New industry research shows that while allocators removed USD9.6 billion from hedge funds during September, they still pledged some USD8 billion to the industry throughout Q3 – the first time since Q1 2018 that hedge funds registered positive quarterly inflows.
And against a backdrop of huge performance dispersion, it is the best-performing managers and strategies which are now attracting the most new capital from allocators.
“The data is showing it over and over
BidFX, a cloud-based provider of electronic foreign exchange trading solutions, has partnered with C8 Technologies, a direct indexing specialist, to enable asset managers to undertake direct indexing via their chosen relationship banks, available on the BidFX system. This will allow C8’s tradable FX indexes to be tracked and executed directly on the BidFX platform.
Initially, the C8 FX Combination Index, a monthly-trading, systematically-weighted aggregate of C8’s FX macro and risk-premia indexes will be available, with more to follow, including AI-driven FX indexes.
BidFX Head of EMEA Sales, Roger Lee, says: “Beyond the algo suite and execution tools, which traders
Over the coming weeks, DMS will bring you its unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities presented to them as the European regulatory landscape shifts. The DMS Client Solutions Team tell you how they see it, on the ground, using their expertise and technical knowledge to assist clients in structuring their products with appropriate governance and compliance frameworks in place. This four part series begins with “Why Cross-Border Fund Domiciles are Transforming into Fund Management Hubs”, as Daniel Forbes explores the post-Brexit regulatory landscape and how large countries and small countries are jockeying for position to fill the void left
Broadridge Financial Solutions’ new artificial intelligence (AI)-driven digital trading platform, LTX, has been integrated with the Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS) as part of a strategy to improve efficiency in the corporate bond market.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Capstone Investment Advisors, the global volatility and derivatives-focused hedge fund, believes the lack of volatility both in the US election polls and president Donald Trump’s personal approval ratings suggests Democrat challenger Joe Biden is on course to win the 3 November election.
The firm, which manages USD7.9 billion in assets across a broad range of volatility-focused, derivatives-based strategies, says Trump’s approval rating has been the least volatile of the last 14 US presidents, while polling data suggests 2020’s race is much less volatile than the 2016 battle.
Jason Goldberg, senior portfolio manager at Capstone, says a lack of movement in
Oyster BM Alternativos – an alternative UCITS fund of funds launched a year ago by SYZ Capital with Spain’s Banca March, and led by hedge fund industry veteran Cédric Vuignier – has weathered 2020’s turbulence to grow its assets to EUR100 million (USD118.1 million), making gains in Japanese and convertible arbitrage-focused positions.
The fund has generated a 3.9 per cent return since its October 2019 launch, and is up 2.5 per cent year-to-date, ahead of its peer group, with roughly half of its EUR100 million inflows received this year.
Oyster BM Alternativos invests in selected equity hedge, event driven, macro and relative
By Joshua D Kestler, Global Head of HedgeMark, BNY Mellon – In the 12 years since the 2008 financial crisis, many large institutional investors have adopted Dedicated Managed Account (DMA) structures in order to address the challenges in commingled hedge funds that were exposed during the crisis. These investors were well-prepared to more effectively manage their portfolios through the market volatility which has resulted from the Covid-19 pandemic while eliminating many of the structural risks that can be exacerbated during a crisis scenario.
