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This provides Skylight IPV additional stability for the next few years and the opportunity to continue to work with clients and further develop its technology to build an ever-improved service.
Fulcrum Asset Management (Fulcrum) has launched the Fulcrum Risk Premia Fund (UCITS) with USD70 million of initial capital with a further USD1.1 billion in the strategy across a Cayman fund and separately managed accounts. The strategy is designed to give investors access to attractive risk-adjusted returns with historically low correlations to traditional assets, while meeting its return objectives in different market environments. It does so by combining a highly diversified portfolio of return streams, focused on macro premia and excluding any exposure to single name equities or equity factors. The Fund is an absolute return product with a target volatility of
Integral (www.integral.com), a provider of forex market technology for banks, brokers, and asset managers, has reported average daily volumes (ADV) across its platforms os USD36.3 billion in December 2019.
INTL FCStone has acquired IFCM Commodities, a provider of commodity price risk management solutions for base metals serving clients across Germany and continental Europe, in a deal which closed on 2 January. IFCM Commodities has been working closely with INTL FCStone’s Metals Division since 2011, acting as their Tied Agent serving clients in Germany and continental Europe. This purchase is part of INTL FCStone’s overall strategic plan to expand the company’s footprint in Germany and continental Europe in order to handle European clients and regional metals business, post-Brexit.
Barry Canham, Global Head of Metals at INTL FCStone, says: “After nearly
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) increased the volume on the Power Derivatives Market by 32 per cent year-on-year in December 2019 to 360.3 TWh (December 2018: 273.7 TWh).
The volume in Spanish power futures rose by 69 per cent year-on-year to 23.8 TWh (December 2018: 14.1 TWh), which corresponds to the highest monthly value in 2019 and a new record volume (previous record 15.7 TWh in Nov’19). EEX also achieved significant volume increases in power futures for France (43.0 TWh, +45 per cent) and Germany (208.7 TWh, +31 per cent) as well as in the power markets for Central and
Akram & Associates, a boutique Public Accounting Firm specialising in accounting, audit and tax services to alternative investment entities, had another successful year in 2019, growing 40 per cent, and is targeting double-digit growth again in 2020.
Hedge fund managers recorded a second positive month in the fourth quarter of 2019, with the equal-weighted index up 0.73 per cent and the asset-weighted index up 0.20 per cent in November following the positive geopolitical developments surrounding the US-China trade negotiations.
Political instability will be the main risk for investments in Spain during 2020, according to the fourth edition of the survey “Spain as an Investment Opportunity” published today by Kreab, a communication and public affairs consultancy firm founded in Sweden in 1970.
The survey gathers the opinion of 62 national and international investors whose aggregated assets under management amount over 380 billion euros.
Despite their concern regarding the political situation, 85.71 per cent of those surveyed would recommend to invest in Spain and give our country an average score of eight out of ten as an investment destination.
The Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX) is set to provide real-time market data feed from 23 March 2020 simultaneously with the introduction of continuous trading on Taiwan’s stock market, which currently adopts the call auction trading method during trading hours.
TAIFEX has implemented continuous trading since 2002, and existing data feed disseminates a snapshot of prices and volumes of the best five bids and asks every 125 milliseconds (or 8 times a second). Starting from March 2020, market participants and information vendors can choose to connect to the new real-time data feed or the existing feed, depending on their diverse needs.
To facilitate
As the New Year is now almost upon us, it is normal to take pause and consider what is to become of hedge fund allocations in 2020. The rewards of 2019 again seem to pale in comparison to the robust global equity markets roaring at 20 per cent including a robust November (December?). The pendulum of passive versus active remains in motion with the equity market rally easing it towards passive once again.
