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Brummer & Partners’ multi-strategy hedge fund flagship was on track for a marginal September rise, the Swedish hedge fund pioneer said on Friday morning, as strong gains in equities-focused funds were offset by faltering trend-following strategies – but the BMS vehicle remains comfortably in the black year-to-date.
The long-running Brummer Multi-Strategy (BMS) fund – which invests in a range of single-strategy hedge funds – was set for a 0.2 per cent gain in September, bringing its year-to-date return to 4.4 per cent. Meanwhile, the Brummer Multi-Strategy 2xL twice-levered version notched up an estimated 0.4 per cent rise in September, to bring
In 2016, SEI issued a paper on what it saw as five major innovations that were causing disruptions both within and outside of their respective industries. The company has revisited those themes, namely: Watsonisation, Googlisation, Amazonisation, Uberisation and Twitterisation, to provide an up-to-date picture of the innovations occurring in our industry today. Over the next few months SEI will share its findings and recent developments for each theme. First up: Watsonisation…
Somerset Capital Management (Somerset Capital), has appointed Mark Williams as co-manager of the Somerset Emerging Markets Dividend Growth Fund. Williams joins Somerset Capital from Liontrust Investment Partners, where he has been Head of Asia Pacific Equities and the Manager of the Liontrust Asia Income Fund since March 2012. He has over 27 years’ portfolio management experience and will take over management of the Dividend Growth Fund on 1 November 2020.
Kumar Pandit will co-manage the GBP486 million Somerset Emerging Markets Dividend Growth Fund with Mark Williams. Pandit is a Senior Partner at Somerset Capital having joined the investment team in
FTSE Russell’s decision to include Chinese sovereign bonds in its flagship government bond index could offer hedge fund investors fresh alpha-generating and AUM-raising opportunities amid a wave of overseas capital inflows into the market.
FTSE Russell said last month it intends to include Chinese sovereign bonds into its flagship World Government Bond Index from next year.
The inclusion – which follows similar moves by Bloomberg Barclays and JP Morgan Chase, the other two main index compilers – tees up a range of investment opportunities for several hedge fund strategy types, industry observers said.
Man Group, the London-listed global hedge fund
Digital asset data infrastructure company Brave New Coin has rolled out its long-awaited DeFi index, which is now available on BTSE as a perpetual swap contract.
BTSE is a fast-growing, multi-currency spot and futures trading platform launched in 2018 by Jonathan Leong, a serial technology entrepreneur and a serial coder with significant experience and expertise in crypto-centric ecosystems, and Brian Wong, with more than 10 years’ experience in trading and financial technologies.
The launch of the BNC-BTSE DeFi Index represents the first of five innovative perpetual swap derivative products to go live by the end of 2020.
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Ideal Prediction (Ideal), a trading analysis and data science company for the capital markets, has appointed Jonathan Fieldman and Geoff Jones to its Advisory Board.
Fieldman says: “Having spent the past 16 years at Broadway Technology leading the transformation of FICC electronic trading, I have witnessed the need for increased assurance and attestation to ethical behaviour. With its leadership, depth of knowledge, and proven financial analytics solutions, Ideal Prediction is perfectly positioned to lead the evolution of the supervisory function and first line of defence.”
Jones says: “As someone with an acute awareness of the personal risks associated with managing
Talos, a technology provider for the institutional trading of digital assets, has launched public access to its platform which connects the diverse group of participants involved in today’s crypto-asset market structure – institutional investors, prime brokers, exchanges, OTC desks, lenders and custodians.
The Talos platform, which — has been live for the last year, delivers a suite of solutions that supports clients through the full trading lifecycle — from price discovery to execution through clearing and settlement, across spot, futures and FX markets.
“The ability to safely and efficiently trade digital assets has been one of the biggest challenges limiting institutional
BT has agreed a seven-year contract with TP ICAP, a provider of market infrastructure. The new contract will provide its 700-strong broker team in London with a secure, software-based platform and applications featuring remote working capabilities. The new service will further strengthen TP ICAP’s execution services across voice trading venues.BT Trading is a unified communications and collaboration (UCC) platform engineered specifically for the high-performance real-time trading, regulatory and security needs of the global capital markets. It can be accessed by brokers working remotely and is integrated with leading unified communications platforms from Microsoft and Cisco. It includes a powerful suite
BMLL Technologies, a provider of data and analytics services to banks and brokers, to asset managers, global exchange groups, hedge funds and quants, has added two Sales Directors to its team.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Multi-strategy hedge fund Algebris’ macro chief eyes Biden victory in US election battle
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