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Designed as a balanced portfolio of ‘best-in-class’ hedge fund managers, Prime Capital AG’s flagship fund of hedge funds strategy – the PCAM Blue Chip Fund – has built a formidable track record since launching in October 2007.
Cobalt, a multi-award-winning provider of FX and Digital Asset risk and settlement infrastructure, has partnered with Spotex, a developer of FX technology solutions, to provide clients with dynamic credit management tools.
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The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 0.01 per cent in January, outperforming the -0.16 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index.
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index family aims to deliver precise market measures for the performance of diversified liquid alternative investment strategies implemented through mutual fund structures, backed by a proprietary classification methodology.
“The ‘Reddit Rebellion’ dominated headlines in January as investors’ support of heavily shorted stocks led to an outsized short squeeze and subsequent technical deleveraging in US equity markets, bringing
Cowen Inc has appointed Adam Strout as a Director in the Company’s Outsourced Trading division.
Strout brings decades of experience in trading global equities for institutional clients at large brokerages as well as directly for portfolio managers at well-known investment management firms. A long-time resident of Massachusetts, Strout will be based in Cowen’s Boston office and work with the firms’ global team of 38 traders, across the US, Europe and Asia, to bring our differentiated Outsourced Trading solution to clients in his local market. Strout will report to Bobby Croswell, Head of US Equity Outsourced Trading.
“Investment managers based
Digital token trading platform Bitfinex has launched Increase Position and Bitfinex Borrow features for paper trading, enabling users to explore and better understand these features in a simulated market environment without the use of real funds.
Users can now choose the Increase Position feature to create or increase a margin position, adding exposure without the need for additional trading, in their paper trading sub-accounts. This allows users to maintain their exposure to a digital token such as bitcoin, while adding liquidity to their portfolio which could then be used for further trading strategies.
Users who access Bitfinex Borrow with their
CTAs were unable to extend their two-month winning streak into the New Year as January performance dipped 0.02 per cent for the month according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions.
“Although equity prices and commodity markets such as energy, crops and base metals continued higher in January, the profits were insufficient to overcome losses generated by long positions in US Treasuries as interest rates rose,” says Sol Waksman, president of BarclayHedge.
Most sectors tracked in the Barclay CTA Indices were in the black for January. The Cryptocurrency Traders Index led the way returning
US hedge fund titan Kenneth Griffin (pictured), founder, CEO and co-CIO of Citadel, says the recent GameStop trading frenzy demonstrates the need to overhaul the settlement process in markets, and wants a shorter timeframe for settling trades, along with more transparent capital models.
State Street Corporation has launched Insights, a new research platform that offers clients proprietary research, exclusive data-driven indicators and the latest market commentary from the firm’s team of global macro strategists.
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Refinitiv has launched MarketPsych ESG Analytics, a new analytics tool to provide numerical ESG insights on companies and countries based on news and social media monitoring.
iCapital Network has partnered with the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association to launch of AltsEdge, a new education initiative designed to help financial advisers better understand alternative investments and how they can leverage these products to improve client outcomes.
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