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Tickeron, an artificial and human intelligence platform delivering trading insights and analysis, has showcased its flagship product AI Robots on Product Hunt, a website featuring curations of the best products in the tech industry.The idea for the AI Robots tool came from Tickeron’s goal to give retail investors access to the same artificial intelligence resources as large institutions with multimillion-dollar technology budgets. Retail investors account for almost 25 per cent of stock-market activity on average but previously stood little to no chance of competing with the institutional world.
AI Robots is designed to change that by making cutting-edge analytical tools
AlphaSwap, an investment technology platform which bundles its analyst community’s best equity investment ideas for institutional customers, has onboarded its first institutional clients and completed a USD1 million fundraising, including venture funding from the UK government’s Future Fund.
MSCI ESG Ratings by MSCI ESG Research are now available via the Bloomberg Terminal. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Causality Link, an advanced, AI-driven financial information technology provider, has made significant updates to its Research Assistant platform.The upgrades include an increased number of content providers and languages ingested, the creation of custom ESG indexes and the launch of additional services targeted towards parsing the internal documents of customers.
Causality Link’s Research Assistant is an AI-powered platform that collects millions of documents globally, in real-time, to identify explicit cause-and-effect statements relating indicators and events, aggregating the knowledge of thousands of authors into a single deductive system. With the recent addition of MT Newswires Life Briefs Pro Global Markets, the
Mercury Digital Assets​ (Mercury), a technology provider for digital asset markets, is partnering with ​Bit.com​, a secure, crypto derivatives exchange launched by Matrixport. This partnership enhances trading capabilities for both parties’ customers at a time of growing interest in crypto derivatives.
With the integration of the firms’ systems, Mercury customers can now trade directly in Bit.com’s order book using Mercury’s BEACON platform’s set of professional-grade trading tools or connect via Mercury’s set of robust APIs to automate workflows and interconnect systems.
“Cryptocurrencies are not a ‘niche’ asset anymore. We field inquiries from all types of traditional derivatives market participants who want
Fund Studio has launched a new managed service offering for hedge funds, CTAs, and asset managers, Fund Studio Middle Office, which uses a combination of Fund Studio’s market leading software and a veteran internal managed services team to provide outsourcing of portfolio related middle and back office activities for managers. Initial demand for the service has been high, and on boarding of clients already has begun.
With the new offering, Fund Studio clients can choose between Fund Studio’s cloud-based technology or the managed service option for their post-trade activities. Knowing that each client’s strategies and operations are unique, a hybrid
Merger arbitrage and event driven hedge fund strategies can capitalise on the recent pick-up in M&A activity globally, and help cushion investors’ portfolios amid potential risk aversion as a result of the US election, Brexit and a fresh Covid-19 surge in Q4, industry strategists say.
The biggest hedge fund managers are still lagging behind the wider industry’s performance on average in 2020, with larger strategies having fallen into the red over the past nine months while the industry overall is in positive territory, as hedge fund strategies of all stripes gave up some of their summer gains in September, according to new industry data.
The ten largest hedge funds reporting performance to eVestment lost 1.06 per cent in September, generally in line with the wider hedge fund industry, which fell just over 1 per cent.
But in the nine-month period since the start of January,
The gross return of the SS&C GlobeOp Hedge Fund Performance Index for September 2020 measured 0.75 per cent.Hedge fund flows as measured by the SS&C GlobeOp Capital Movement Index declined 0.82 per cent in October.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Capital Movement Index for October 2020 of -0.82 per cent reflects net cash outflows, as is typical for the month of October based on long-standing seasonal patterns. In view of these seasonal patterns, it should be noted that the -0.82 per cent for October 2020 is actually quite strong, comparing favourably to the -1.09 per cent reported for the same period last year,
Janus Henderson Investors has launched an Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) Fund for institutional investors. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
