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LFIS Capital (LFIS), a European quantitative asset management firm, has formed a strategic partnership with Walter Global Asset Management (Walter GAM), a private equity platform specialising in the asset management industry.With this transaction, Walter GAM acquires a significant minority stake in LFIS, its third European investment. Walter GAM’s expertise and proven track record in supporting high-growth asset management businesses will help drive LFIS’ internal development and external growth and expand its strong footprint with Canadian institutional clients to investors across North America.
“When forging Walter GAM’s long-term partnerships, we pay particular attention to a firm’s growth potential and the
Challenger data provider, Exchange Data International (EDI), has written to the CFTC, the heads of the relevant Committees of the US House of Representatives, and the US Senate – which oversee the CFTC – requesting they investigate the CME Group’s (CME) plans to charge for what has always been a no-fee service. Legal advice taken by EDI views the CME’s new fee policies as illegal, anti-competitive, and extremely disruptive. If the CME is allowed to proceed with its actions, the practical impact will be devastating for redistributors of the data, especially the small and mid-sized vendors.
The new fees for
Global telecoms operator BSO has delivered a unique ultra low latency connectivity service for CryptoStruct. This bespoke cloud-to-cloud service underpins CryptoStruct’s professional market data platform.Based in Hamburg, CryptoStruct centralises and normalises crypto market data from multiple exchanges. This unrivalled insight enables professional and institutional traders to react to market trends in real time, conduct historical analysis, and trade faster and safer.
Thomas Schmeling, Chief Executive Officer at CryptoStruct, says: “We engaged BSO because of its global reach, reputation for ultra-low latency connectivity, and experience in highly regulated financial markets. These qualities have proven true; however, it is the company’s
Good Soil Investment Management has launched its first hedge fund – Accelerated Opportunities LP Concentrated Growth Fund — which is focused on investing in exchange-traded early-stage, US-based disruptive publicly traded companies while pioneering a fee structure that will divert half of all management fees to select charities. A 506(c) offering, Accelerated Opportunities LP is now raising investor capital. Since founder Emmett Peppers launched the fund in January with USD100,000 of his own money, it has generated just over a 10,000 per cent gross return from start date to 30 November. Peppers’ trading philosophy is based on his proprietary process, which includes
OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for international institutional investors and academic researchers, has launched a new version of its IvyDB Asia database. IvyDB Asia 2.0, which includes historical data for option markets in Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Australia, continues OptionMetrics’ tradition of offering the industry the most accurate, highest quality options data.
IvyDB Asia 2.0 – covering more than 600 optionable securities (equities and indices) from all major Asian-Pacific exchanges, starting from January 2004 – includes daily option pricing information, dividend projections, and historical distributions and corporate actions, such as splits and mergers. Updates in IvyDB Asia
Quantitative Brokers (QB), a provider of advanced execution algorithms and data-driven analytics for global futures and interest rate markets, has appointed Timothy Gits as Chief Sales Officer responsible for QB’s global sales team. Effective immediately Gits will report to QB Chief Executive Officer Christian Hauff and will join QB’s Executive Committee.
The news comes as fast-growing QB marks the 10th anniversary of its first trade execution, completes the sale of a majority stake to Deutsche Börse, and looks to make additional hires globally in the months ahead.
“This is a very exciting time for QB and our many clients and partners
Hedge funds are storming into the final weeks of 2020, having notched up some of their biggest gains in decades on the back of the US presidential result and positive developments in the search for a coronavirus vaccine, with equity, event driven and cryptocurrency strategies all riding high last month.
Hedge Fund Research’s main Fund Weighted Composite Index grew 6.24 per cent last month, its best monthly return since December 1999, and its second biggest monthly rise since the index launched 30 years ago.
Since the start of 2020, the index – a global equal-weighted measure of more than 1,400
This is the final part in a series of four articles from the Waystone Client Solutions Team, bringing you a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities presented by the shifting European regulatory landscape. Last week, David Morrissey offered his unique personal perspective on the evolution of the third party management company sector. This week, James Woodbridge, Associate Director in the firm’s Cayman office, and part of the Fund Governance Team, provides an update us on the history of SPACs, how they have evolved over the years, and their positioning for the future.
Hedge funds betting against FTSE 100 companies suffered losses of almost USD1.5 billion last month, as bearish equity positions were struck down amid November’s strong stock market rally.
IHS Markit has extended its Data Lake to support unstructured content using the latest natural language processing (NLP) technologies. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
