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A spike in market volatility led CTAs and other managed futures hedge funds to hand back their initial early-year returns last month, as gains in commodities and bonds were outweighed by losses in currencies and equity indices.
Though two out of the three daily CTA benchmarks produced by Société Générale were in the black entering the final week of January, increasingly see-saw market patterns ultimately torpedoed the sector’s mid-month advance, SocGen said on Friday.
The main SocGen CTA Index, a daily performance benchmark comprising a select pool of 20 of the largest managed futures strategies, slumped to a 1.14 per
The co-ordinated billion-dollar raid on hedge funds’ short positions in GameStop by amateur traders represents another risk management factor in a battalion of emerging challenges that now confront managers’ portfolios, industry participants say.
Assured Capital Partners’ Balanced Growth Fund had another extraordinary year in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic, narrowly missing out on surpassing a 40 per cent return for the third time in the fund’s existence.
According to hedge fund database service EurekaHedge, the fund has now returned over 376 per cent since inception as of the end of 2020 and the firm is positive on the outlook for the year ahead, despite the ongoing economic disruption caused by the Covid-19 crisis.
Assured Capital writes: “In early 2021 there’s nearly USD5 trillion sitting on the sidelines at the moment. That’s about a
Bridge Mutual, a decentralised, peer-to-peer discretionary coverage platform for digital assets, has partnered with AllianceBlock, a decentralised, blockchain-agnostic layer 2 protocol that bridges traditional and decentralised finance.
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AcadiaSoft, a provider of risk and collateral management services for the derivatives community, has acquired capital markets consulting and software company Quaternion.
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The Hedge Fund Association (HFA), an international nonprofit trade and nonpartisan lobbying organisation, has added new HFA Officers, Regional Directors and Committee Leaders.
HFA’s leaders are all elected and appointed volunteers that work on behalf of the entire alternative investment industry, including hedge funds, private equity, venture capital, real estate and wealth management firms, institutional investors, family offices and service providers.
“It’s an honour to be chosen by my fellow global board members to serve as the HFA’s first Chief Operating Officer. In this role I look forward to enhancing operations and helping ensure that we continue to deliver valuable
The European Power Spot markets, operated by EPEX SPOT, increased by 3 per cent to 54.7 TWh in January, according to the latest data released by EEX.
The increase was driven by a strong performance in both the Intraday (+2 per cent to 10.3 TWh) and the Day-Ahead markets (+3 per cent to 44.5 TWh) which also achieved a number of new records. Notably, the French Day-Ahead reported a new high of 11.8 TWh (previous record in March 2020: 11.7 TWh).
In European Power Derivatives, the Swiss (1.2 TWh), Nordic (766.3 GWh) and UK (251.4 GWh) markets reported triple-digit growth.
Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform, has seen a 300 per cent increase in new accounts in the first month of 2021.
Bitfinex’s customer growth has been further underlined by a jump in activity by customers using the exchange’s mobile app, with downloads to the app increasing by 164 per cent in January. Furthermore, the exchange’s Honey Framework, which enables users to create custom order types or event-driven automated trading strategies, has seen visitors to the framework more than triple.
Bitfinex has already established itself as an institutional hub in crypto, offering high-speed, state-of-the-art trading infrastructure. In collaboration with Market
Man FRM is optimistic on what it describes as an “unusually large” spectrum of hedge fund strategies amid a growing medley of investment opportunities and themes arising from the fledgling economic recovery.
In its Q1 strategy outlook published on Thursday, Man Group’s funds-of-funds unit spelled out how a spring economic recovery, coupled with dovish central bank stances and ongoing fiscal support, will help sustain and extend the market rally, particularly in equities.
That, in turn, will likely strengthen the hand of a range of hedge fund strategies including credit, equity long/short, macro and relative value, during the first quarter.
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Alpha-generating opportunities surge in Japan, as economic recovery and market reforms gather pace
Alpha-generating opportunities surge in Japan, as economic recovery and market reforms gather pace