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Vatic Labs, a systematic quantitative investment manager, has appointed partner Todd Hohman as President. Hohman, who joined Vatic in January 2020 and is based in New York, will oversee the firm’s growth and operations, as well as head risk management.
“Todd is a natural business builder and I’m honoured to have him as a partner and now President in supporting Vatic’s continued growth and development,” says Vatic Labs’ Founder and Chief Executive Officer James Chiu. “With Todd’s continued leadership and now expanded role, we will remain true to our collaborative and ‘team first’ approach, focused on creating differentiated trading and
During the last quarter of 2020, Cyprus-regulated hedge fund ARK36 D delivered more than 118 per cent return on investment, focusing exclusively on the bitcoin and cryptocurrency asset markets.
This was the fund’s first operating quarter since launch in October 2020. Additionally, ARK36 has seen a fourfold increase in investors in that period and has delivered more than 50 per cent returns since the start of the new year.
The fund’s Danish management, including Ulrik Lykke, Mikkel Mөrch, Jacob Skaaning, and Marck Bertelsen, believes that the potential of cryptocurrencies as an asset class will continue to grow over time and is
Tickeron, an artificial and human intelligence platform delivering unparalleled trading insights and analysis, has launched a new AI Robots tool for pair trading.
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Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform, has launched historical funding statistical data on Bitfinex Terminal, a real-time market data feed.
Bitfinex customers can obtain free access to key metrics of the funding market, such as the Flash Return Rate (FRR), total amount provided, average period, and total amount used. Bitfinex users can leverage this funding statistical data, along with existing public trade data, to enhance the backtesting of trading ideas and power algorithmic trading strategies.
“We’re pleased to provide this advanced tool enabling a more granular analysis of historical funding data for our growing number of algorithmic traders,” says Paolo
Hedge funds have lost some USD325 million betting against FTSE 100 names over the past month, with retail investors driving shorted stocks higher as the GameStop effect reached UK shores.
Bitfinex Derivatives, a derivatives platform accessible through the Bitfinex digital token trading platform, is to launch perpetual contracts for Stellar and Cardano.
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Stockholm-based hedge fund manager Brummer & Partners saw its flagship multi-strategy fund dip slightly into negative territory last month.
The Brummer Multi-Strategy (BMS) vehicle slipped 0.8 per cent in its SEK class, and 0.9 per cent in the USD class, in January, while the twice-levered Brummer Multi-Strategy 2xL version of the fund lost 1.7 per cent in both SEK and USD tranches.
Brummer said on Wednesday that equities and bond yields ticked upwards in early January, buoyed by the prospect of further stimulus from the new Biden administration – but appetite soon soured in the second half of the month
Cairn Capital Group (Cairn Capital), supported by Mediobanca as its majority shareholder, is to acquire and merge with Bybrook Capital (Bybrook), a specialist distressed credit manager based in London.
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The Causal AI platform, created by causaLens, is being leveraged by financial services companies (including Aviva Investors, 2IQ, TIAA, CLS Group and a several prominent hedge funds), to automatically extract valuable causal insights from financial data and boost the profitability of their trading strategies.
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ACA Compliance Group (ACA) has appointed Anthony Bennett as head of sales and client development at ACA Mirabella.
