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The healthcare sector can expect a “reasonably stable political environment” this year, according to healthcare-focused specialist hedge fund Rhenman & Partners Asset Management, whose buoyant stance comes after its flagship strategy finished last month in positive territory.
The firm’s flagship Rhenman Healthcare Equity Long/Short hedge fund rose 1.32 per cent in its main euro share class last month, as its SEK-denominated tranche grew 1.81 per cent.
The strategy – which trades a range of small, medium and large pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical technology and service company stocks – was able to generate profits across three of its four main areas of
First New York, a multi-asset class investment firm, has deployed Eventus Systems’ Validus platform to meet its global trade surveillance needs.
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ION Investment Group (ION) is to acquire options technology and execution provider Dash Financial Technologies from Flexpoint Ford.
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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.”
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Retail genie “out of the bottle”: Hedge fund giant Man Group says GameStop effect here to stay
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