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CBOE Holdings plans to list options on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (EEM) and the MSCI EAFE Index (EAFE) beginning Tuesday, 21 April.
The announcement was made during a CBOE press briefing at the Futures Industry Association conference in Boca Raton, Florida.
In December 2014, CBOE Holdings, Inc. announced it entered into a licensing agreement with MSCI Inc, a leading provider of investment decision support tools worldwide, to offer options trading on several MSCI Indexes. Under the agreement, options on the MSCI Indexes will be solely listed for trading in the US on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE). Options
iMatchative’s new online data analytics, monitoring and matching service for institutional investors and hedge funds, AltX, will now use a data feed from HedgeFund Intelligence’s.
HedgeFund Intelligence’s global database of hedge fund performance tracks over USD2 trillion in assets under management and over 16,000 funds and contains performance information such as investment terms, strategy and historical AUM. The data feed into AltX will feature the US North Americas Absolute Return database of over 5,200 funds.
This partnership comes at an exciting time for iMatchative as they look to disrupt the investor-hedge fund intro market. Within the first year they already
Common Sense Investment Management (CSIM) has launched Common Sense Solutions, a bespoke portfolio construction and fund structuring service for institutional investors.
Common Sense Solutions couples 24 years of hedge fund research, investment & operational due diligence with specialised portfolio & fund construction services to offer institutional investors and family offices custom products. The process is designed to meet investors' specifications across varied strategies, geographic and sector exposures and risk-adjusted return targets.
Common Sense Solutions offers a consultative approach to building portfolios that will access CSIM's Hedge Fund Strategies and Liquid Strategies businesses. This will allow investors to focus their portfolios
McKay Brothers Microwave has launched a private bandwidth service between Slough and Frankfurt with latency of 4.64 milliseconds (ms) for the round trip, the lowest known.
The company is finalising more routes between the UK and Frankfurt as well as a London Metro service.
“Bandwidth subscribers understand the value of access to the fastest network,” says François Tyč, Managing Director of McKay Brothers International. “McKay’s private bandwidth subscribers leverage our proven expertise in engineering, building and operating the industry’s leading microwave networks.”
MBI anticipates adding the Quincy Extreme Data service to this circuit. Subscribers of the QED service will receive
OpenGamma is working with dealers and other OTC derivatives market participants to deliver an open source model to calculate the margin on bilateral derivatives trades.
The solution will implement the final Standard Initial Margin Methodology (SIMM) being developed by ISDA, which will meet the requirements set by the Basel Committee and due to be implemented by December 2015.
Full transparency and open access to source code for margining will for the first time empower industry participants to have an independent and verifiable calculation framework that is not controlled by any one entity.
The source code used for calculation of margin
The performance of healthcare stocks is heading upwards. Right now, this is where investments are pouring in. In an article from Hedgeweek, Abbvie and Actavis, last quarter, lead the healthcare group on the top hedge funds buying list along with Energy and Technology companies.
Investors are always looking for their next big investment theme. And where the market points now is healthcare, technology, and energy.
With the globalization of economies and rapid growth of each industry, crossbreed markets are emerging. According to Richard Kimball Jr., former Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and now co-founder and CEO of HEXL,
The Lyxor Hedge Fund Index was up +1.7% in February. 10 out of 12 Lyxor Indices ended the month in positive territory, led by the Lyxor Special Situation Index (+5.3%), the Lyxor CTA Short Term Index (+3.5%), the Lyxor Convertible Bond Arbitrage Index (+3.1%).
The gradual stabilisation in oil prices, sparks of economic improvements in Eurozone and multiple evidences of central banks efforts all contributed to ease deflation fears. It triggered a broad and rapid rotation in most of the assets and sectors tied to the themes which dominated over the last few months. Recovering risk appetite supported strategies most
The hedge fund industry produced an aggregate return of 1.93% in February, the industry’s best monthly performance since February of last year, according to eVestment’s February 2015 Hedge Fund Performance report.
The primary driver of hedge fund returns in February were rising equity markets, highlighted by the S&P 500’s best month in more than three years.
Every major hedge fund strategy posted positive returns for the month of February, with activist funds leading the industry and managed futures lagging, but still positive. February’s returns erased any remnants of January’s losses from primary strategies.
Aggregate managed futures funds’ performance was only
SunGard is launching a new industry utility for post-trade futures and cleared over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives operations to help global capital markets firms adapt to new market challenges and post-financial crisis cost pressures.
This industry utility will enable derivatives brokers, including Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs), to achieve greater efficiency, reduce operational risk and total cost of ownership (TCO) by leveraging economies of scale in middle and back office processing and technology. Barclays, an industry leader in the global cleared derivatives industry, will become the utility’s first customer. Barclays will also migrate specific futures and OTC derivative clearing operations and technology processes
As of early March, the buoyant performance of hedge funds continues unabated. The Lyxor Hedge Fund index is up 2.4% year to date, and several patterns observed over recent weeks have proved persistent.
