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As hedge funds take stock of the events of last year – the Covid-19 pandemic, geopolitical tensions and the collapse of the oil market to name a few – 2021 will be a year of opportunity for hedge funds. Facilitating participation in the world’s largest financial market is more important than ever before, writes Mario Sanchez (pictured), Managing Director and Global Head of Sales at FXCM Pro.
ConsenSys, an Ethereum software company, and Securosys, a specialist in cybersecurity, encryption, and digital identity protection, has launched a seamless and secure method for long-term Ethereum 2.0 staking.
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BTIG employees will not be required to return to any of the firm’s US offices prior to Labor Day of 2021.
Wilshire has launched a new Powered by Wilshire index, the Hypatia Women Hedge Fund Index. Created and owned by Hypatia Capital, calculated and maintained by Wilshire, the index is designed to measure performance of women managed hedge funds that meet certain criteria, selected from a universe of hedge funds compiled by Hypatia Capital Management LLC, sourced from publicly available information, industry associations and industry contacts.
The Hypatia Women Hedge Fund Index eligible universe focuses on a limited set of criteria, including a minimum USD100 million in assets under management and a rules-based operational due diligence filter. The aim is to
BrokerTec, a leading provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in fixed income markets, has migrated its US Treasuries benchmark trading and US Repo platform to CME Globex.
This follows the integration of BrokerTec’s EU government bond and repo markets in January.
With BrokerTec’s dealer-to-dealer platform now a fully integrated part of CME Globex, clients have an enhanced suite of government bond trading offerings across listed derivatives, cash and repo markets on a common platform allowing greater operational and technological efficiencies when managing risk across cash and futures.
“Going forward BrokerTec clients will benefit from the world-class technology available
Jackson Hole Capital Partners, the Tulsa-based asset manager, is launching a new alternatives investment platform to be run by two former investment heads from Permal and EnTrust – Robert Kaplan and Christopher Keenan – who have joined the firm as managing partners.
The new platform, Jackson Hole Investment Partners, is focused on proprietary sourced direct and co-investments in equity and debt markets – two areas where the managers see attractive opportunities for a differentiated return stream in high-conviction ideas.
Kaplan was previously senior managing director and member of the EnTrustPermal Global Investment Committee – having previously served as chief investment officer at Permal
In 2016, SEI issued a paper on what it saw as five major innovations that were causing disruptions both within and outside of their respective industries. The company has revisited those themes, namely: Watsonisation, Googlisation, Amazonisation, Uberisation and Twitterisation, to provide an up-to-date picture of the innovations occurring in our industry today. Over the next few months SEI will share its findings and recent developments for each theme. Next up: Twitterisation…
BNP Paribas Asset Management (BNPP AM), the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA), and Liquefy, a Hong-Kong based tokenisation platform, have released a new research paper that provides key insights into the benefits and challenges inherent in bringing a tokenisation approach to a wide range of alternative asset classes.
Tokenisation is the process of creating a digital representation of a non-digital asset. According to the paper, this new technology has great potential to democratise access to alternative investments, while also enabling asset managers to innovate by investing in alternative asset tokens, thereby broadening the types of exposures they can potentially
Digital asset inflows continued last week with investment product inflows totalling USD354 million despite a relatively flat, but volatile week from a price perspective, according to the latest data from CoinShares.
The previous three weeks saw some providers experience minor outflows totalling USD174 million, but this now seems to have stopped with no fund providers seeing outflows last week.
Investments remain very bitcoin focused representing 92 per cent of total inflows, while ether saw inflows totalling USD20 million. There was USD8 million in inflows into multi-asset crypto investment products. Despite the increased perceived interest from investors in broadening their scope
OTCX, a multi-dealer RFQ platform for off-venue interest rate derivatives, has certified its integration with Charles River Investment Management Solution (Charles River IMS).
Together with State Street Corporation middle and back office capabilities, Charles River’s cloud-deployed software technology forms the foundation of State Street Alpha.
Charles River IMS offers its clients advanced risk, portfolio management and trading capabilities across asset classes, including fixed income and derivatives instruments. However, many of these derivatives are still traded via voice, chat or email. OTCX, by linking clients directly to their dealers, brings trading workflow efficiencies and helps dramatically reduce operational risk due to
