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CME Group has added 11 additional implied volatility benchmark indexes to its suite of CME Group Volatility Indexes (CVOL). Clients can now access two years of historical implied volatility data on CME Group’s CVOL indexes on WTI Light Sweet Crude Oil, Henry Hub Natural Gas, Gold, Silver, Corn, Soybeans and Wheat, along with the addition of both 5-Year and 30-Year Treasuries.
Together with the previously introduced indexes on 10-Year Treasuries and FX currency pairs, CME Group now offers 19 CVOL Indexes across five asset classes.
“Our clients continue to demand additional implied volatility information across a broader range of
Bardin Hill Investment Partners (Bardin Hill), an investment management firm specialising in credit strategies and event-driven equities, has held the final close of the Bardin Hill Opportunistic Credit Fund, LP and a parallel side-car vehicle with total commitments of approximately USD600 million.
The firm’s flagship closed-end Strategy received significant backing from new institutional investors globally, as well as from existing Bardin Hill clients.
The Strategy identifies and executes on stressed, distressed, process-driven, and special situations investments less correlated to global debt and equity markets with a focus on control-oriented opportunities in smaller and medium-sized capital structures. The Strategy is
Executive search firm Morgan Samuels has appointed Joanne Doyle Pauley as a senior client partner based in Los Angeles.
Pauley joins Morgan Samuels from The Oxbridge Group, where she led a private capital and financial practice and conducted successful investment professional and C-suite executive searches for private equity, hedge fund, and alternative investment management firms.
Prior to The Oxbridge Group, Pauley spent time at Evercore Partners and Korn Ferry International, where her Fortune 500 search experience included supporting high profile searches for Nike, Times Mirror, and Dole.
Morgan Samuels Chairman and CEO Bert Hensley, says: “We are honoured to have
Cboe Global Markets is to introduce early trading on the Cboe EDGX Equities Exchange beginning at 4:00 am ET, with order acceptance beginning at 3:30 am ET, from Monday, 8 March, pending regulatory approval.
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CME Group has launched ether futures, further expanding its crypto derivatives offerings in this emerging asset class.
“As institutional demand for transparent, exchange-listed crypto derivatives continues to increase, we are pleased to launch our new ether futures contract,” says Tim McCourt, CME Group Global Head of Equity Index and Alternative Investment Products. “The addition of Ether, along with our liquid Bitcoin futures and options, will create new opportunities for a broad array of clients, whether they are looking to hedge ether positions in the spot market or gain exposure to this cryptocurrency on a regulated derivatives marketplace.”
“Just like in
Coinsquare, a Canadian digital asset trading platform, has launched a new Quick Trade mobile app, which aims to makes the buying and selling digital assets quick and convenient, with customers able to easily manage their portfolio of digital assets.
The launch of Quick Trade represents a new standard for mobile trading, with commission-free transactions and competitive pricing for the most popular digital assets.
The Quick Trade app — available in English and French — offers the following benefits and features:
• Simplified KYC process – get verified to trade within seconds
• Instant account funding via Interac e-Transfer
• No-fee
As sustainability regulation ramps up in Europe, the ESG reporting requirements for asset managers and their products are due to increase sharply. Although new regulations are due to come into force in March 2021, there is still significant uncertainty around what managers will be expected to do. In this changing environment, it is a time for service providers to offer new forms of support to the asset manager community.
There is growing familiarity with Dutch hedge fund structures among investors which has been driving the jurisdiction’s fortunes as a continental alternative to Luxembourg and Ireland. Service providers in Amsterdam are welcoming this progress while also being discerning in their approach.
Allocations to hedge funds are set to increase in 2021, “2020 was largely driven by volatility and global macro-economic uncertainties. The defensive approach adopted by hedge funds, the ability to demonstrate uncorrelated performance as well as navigate these choppy waters successfully has positioned managers to draw in more institutional capital and also encourage more fund start-ups” comments Delphine Amzallag
By A Paris – The outlook for growth in the Amsterdam financial services industry is optimistic, driven by the Brexit fallout, an increased need for political stability and access to a diversified support eco-system which can help alternative asset managers thrive.
