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Industrial metals and bulk materials stand to gain from the nascent post-Covid economic recovery according to metals and mining-focused hedge fund Delbrook Capital, while precious metals trades – an investor favourite during market uncertainty – could be starting to run out of steam.
Quincy Data has added bitcoin futures to its Quincy Extreme Data (QED) service.
Quincy sources bitcoin futures data in Aurora, Illinois and uses the McKay Brothers’ microwave network to transport the data in less than four milliseconds (ms) one-way to the crypto exchange hub located at Secaucus-NY4 in New Jersey. QED provides the lowest known latency for bitcoin futures data to Toronto-TMX, where the first North American bitcoin ETFs trade.
Quincy re-distributes the Bitcoin futures data at the lowest commercial latency in London at the Slough-LD4 data centre in less than 35 ms one-way. European re-distribution is also available in
In response to increasing demand for access to foreign exchange venues and global exchanges, MarketFactory’s API based solutions are now available on the QuantHouse qh API Ecosystem Store.
MarketFactory provides connectivity to more than 90 currency exchanges and liquidity providers allowing both the buy and sell-side to trade the global currency markets.
The USD6.6 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market continues to be increasingly fragmented not just in terms of markets, but also geographies and FX instruments. The MarketFactory approach to aggregation is to provide clients with access to all FX markets, instruments and locations through a single API.
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Digital asset investment products closed on Friday with a record of USD5.8 billion of assets under management following positive price action and inflows last week of USD242 million.
That’s according to the latest Coinshares Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report which highlights ether as being increasingly popular amongst investors with inflows of USD113 million last week, comprising almost 50 per cent of total flows.
Analysis of investment providers that simply track the price of digital assets (passive) versus those that have active investment strategies highlight investors continue to choose passive with assets under management of USD54.1 billion and USD786 million
Blackstone has announced that Scott Bommer has joined the firm as the Chief Investment Officer of the new Blackstone Horizon platform, an initiative being launched by Blackstone Alternative Asset Management (BAAM).
Blackstone Horizon is a new investment business that targets strong absolute returns by investing in and forming strategic partnerships with high-performing investment managers. The platform will employ a thematic approach to capitalise on powerful secular growth trends globally.
Bommer will also work closely with BAAM senior management on asset allocation, risk-management, stakes/seeding investing and other strategic initiatives.
Jon Gray, Blackstone President & COO, says: “This is another key hire
Managed futures funds posted a positive month in February gaining 1.76 per cent, according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions.
For the year to date, CTAs returned 1.68 per cent through the end of February.
“Signs of economic recovery coupled with the prospects for passage of a $1.9 trillion covid relief bill in the US Senate fed investor hopes and prompted gains in equity and commodity markets,” says Sol Waksman, president of BarclayHedge. “Global stock indices rose to new all-time highs, crude oil and copper made multi-year highs and the uptrend in crop
Anchin, Block & Anchin (Anchin) has launched an emerging manager platform for start-up and early-growth hedge, private equity, real estate and venture capital funds, offering a mix of traditional and non-traditional professional services across audit, tax, advisory and consulting.
The platform combines the expertise of Anchin’s Financial Services, Private Equity and Real Estate Groups.
The Emerging Manager Platform bundles Anchin’s expert services on a sliding fee scale that keeps pace with the fund manager’s growth. Anchin understands the issues an emerging manager faces during a fund’s early stages. In addition to traditional services such as preparation of tax returns,
Hedge funds’ bearish bets against Cineworld suffered a dent this week as shares in the beleaguered London-listed global cinema chain – a long-standing target of short sellers – surged more than 9 per cent.
PureStream Trading Technologies Inc has selected Nasdaq to power the new PureStream alternative trading system (ATS) via the Nasdaq Execution Platform.
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The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has outlined a three-point plan to further harmonise derivatives trade reporting requirements and deliver against the objectives that were originally established by the Group of 20 (G20) at its historic 2009 summit in Pittsburgh.
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