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Hedge funds are growing in confidence following a positive start to the year, according to the Alternative Investment Management Association’s latest quarterly Hedge Fund Confidence Index.
Tyr Capital Partners, the team behind crypto arbitrage hedge fund, Tyr Capital Arbitrage SP, is setting up an actively managed long-only fund to launch next year, following increasing demand from investors.
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Last year proved to be a strong litmus test for the hedge fund industry, with a slew of strategies able to post solid returns in a market that witnessed an incredible trough to peak recovery between Q2 and Q4.
Market neutral long/short hedge funds have been boosted by the recent bounce in Momentum stocks – but Lyxor Asset Management strategists believe the strategy is vulnerable to sudden factor rotations over the longer-term.
The performance of Momentum stocks has stabilised in recent weeks, following the sharp correction in November, in turn aiding certain hedge fund strategies – such as market neutral long/short – which have a Momentum bias. As Value names have maintained their recovery, and are starting to be shown in the Momentum risk factor, Lyxor said near-term prospects for market neutral long/short hedge funds have “marginally improved”.
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4OTC, a FinTech provider of connectivity services for Digital Assets and FX, has announced that Russell Fernandes and Mark Price have joined Alexis Atkinson as Co-Founders.
TP ICAP Group (TP ICAP), a diversified global markets infrastructure and data solutions provider, has Parameta Solutions, the new identity for its data and analytics and post-trade offerings.
The business provides clients with unbiased OTC content and proprietary data, in-depth insights across price discovery, risk management, benchmark and indices and pre and post-trade analytics. Its nascent post-trade solutions offering will help market participants control counterparty and regulatory risks through a growing range of tools that manage balance sheet exposure, as well as compression and optimisation services.
Nicolas Breteau, CEO of TP ICAP Group, says: “The Parameta Solutions business is
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that Chief of the Office of the Whistleblower Jane Norberg will be stepping down this month after almost a decade of overseeing one of the nation’s most successful whistleblower programs.
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Bitfi and the XDC Network (XinFin) have announced the imminent deployment of advanced security features for the XDC protocol and digital asset to extend the Protocol’s security to the user interface and private key management.
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Bernstein Research, the global sell side research arm of AllianceBernstein (AB), has officially rolled out a first-of-its-kind “Alphalytics” tool to better quantify and effectively measure the skillsets and value of the global asset management industry.
Alphalytics, built upon proprietary Bernstein research, thought leadership and expertise, creates a consistent benchmark that measures portfolio manager success by identifying idiosyncratic alpha, or alpha that is generated uniquely by a particular asset manager. Through an interactive, web-based platform, Alphalytics analyses, compares and identifies idiosyncratic returns, long term and tactical style tilts, and other attributes for thousands of asset management products spanning various asset classes.
Healthcare-focused equity hedge fund Rhenman & Partners generated further gains last month as falling US unemployment helped push medical insurance stocks higher.
Its flagship healthcare-focused hedge fund finished the first quarter up 5.56 per cent, as a rotation into cyclical equities which stand to gain from the economic recovery underpinned March’s positive returns.
The Rhenman Healthcare Equity Long/Short strategy advanced 3.6 per cent in its main euro-denominated IC1 share class last month. The SEK-denominated RC1 class rose 4.03 per cent and has now made more than 7 per cent since the start of 2021. Over the fund’s 12-year run, it
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