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Founded by a team of Italian former investment bankers, London-based activist hedge fund Bluebell Capital Partners has gained impressive momentum over the past year with its focus on listed, predominantly European large-cap companies.
Brummer Multi-Strategy CEO Mikael Spångberg says the firm is in a “good position” to deliver continued positive performance, after the flagship strategy posted its second-best annual performance to date – but he underlined the importance of generating alpha in the face of unpredictable markets.
Total global hedge fund assets under management have mushroomed to a record USD3.6 trillion, thanks to defensive outperformance and opportunistic gains during 2020’s upheaval – though the biggest firms continue to take the lion’s share of investor capital as smaller names are squeezed.
Investors added around USD16 billion to hedge fund strategies during the second half of last year, after net asset inflows reached USD3 billion in the fourth quarter, new data published by Hedge Fund Research shows.
In a webinar this week, HFR president Kenneth Heinz hailed 2020 as “one of the most impressive years in the history of the industry,
IHS Markit is developing a USD credit spread adjustment for SOFR which utilises transaction data on commercial paper, certificates of deposit and corporate bonds issued by banking institutions.
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Clearstream, a provider of post-trading services, will from 2021 onwards use software products from BearingPoint RegTech to meet most of their regulatory reporting requirements.
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Accelerate Financial Technologies (Accelerate) has launched Canada’s first alternative investment portfolio ETF, the Accelerate OneChoice Alternative Portfolio ETF (OneChoice), that will list on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the ticker ONEC on 27 January, 2021.
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Genesis, a global financial markets software firm, has launched FX Prime, a trade capture application developed for FX & rates trading desks with Prime Broker integration.
The application has been developed in partnership with XP Investments, United States based subsidiary of the Brazilian broker-dealer XP Investimentos, the largest broker-dealer in Brazil.
XP Investments selected Genesis as their low-code application provider and the collaboration has empowered the firm to successfully automate legacy manual workflows, optimise and digitise operational processes and also to develop and deploy new products and services.
XP Investments has further expanded its strategic partnership with Genesis to deliver
Bit.com, Matrixport’s secure derivatives exchange, is to launch bitcoin cash (BCH) perpetual swaps and options on 20 January, and 1 February, respectively.
By George Ralph (pictured), Managing Director, RFA – The coronavirus pandemic has brought considerable challenges to the way hedge funds and asset management firms do business, with far-reaching consequences for cybersecurity, data safety and business communications. The need for fully flexible working around the pandemic continues to change. Collaboration tools have been key to successful working environments as staff need to work in the same way and securely, regardless of location.
In the early stages of the pandemic, the major tech challenges centred around endpoint security. Individuals may have been using personal devices for professional purposes, and the prevalent model was
By Mark Coriarty (pictured), Chief Revenue Officer, Sentieo – Sentieo works with hundreds of hedge funds, mutual funds, private equity firms, and Fortune 500 Corporations. Each and every one of these organisations has felt the impact of the global pandemic. They also have something else in common: an accelerated focus on technology.
We’ve seen a major trend play out in the last year. Organisations that were already set up to enable their teams to work remotely didn’t skip a beat at the outset of the stay at home orders last spring. Efficiency and output of the research process are the lifeblood of
