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Good Soil Investment Management has launched its first hedge fund – Accelerated Opportunities LP Concentrated Growth Fund — which is focused on investing in exchange-traded early-stage, US-based disruptive publicly traded companies while pioneering a fee structure that will divert half of all management fees to select charities. A 506(c) offering, Accelerated Opportunities LP is now raising investor capital. Since founder Emmett Peppers launched the fund in January with USD100,000 of his own money, it has generated just over a 10,000 per cent gross return from start date to 30 November. Peppers’ trading philosophy is based on his proprietary process, which includes
OptionMetrics, an options database and analytics provider for international institutional investors and academic researchers, has launched a new version of its IvyDB Asia database. IvyDB Asia 2.0, which includes historical data for option markets in Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, and Australia, continues OptionMetrics’ tradition of offering the industry the most accurate, highest quality options data.
IvyDB Asia 2.0 – covering more than 600 optionable securities (equities and indices) from all major Asian-Pacific exchanges, starting from January 2004 – includes daily option pricing information, dividend projections, and historical distributions and corporate actions, such as splits and mergers. Updates in IvyDB Asia
Quantitative Brokers (QB), a provider of advanced execution algorithms and data-driven analytics for global futures and interest rate markets, has appointed Timothy Gits as Chief Sales Officer responsible for QB’s global sales team. Effective immediately Gits will report to QB Chief Executive Officer Christian Hauff and will join QB’s Executive Committee.
The news comes as fast-growing QB marks the 10th anniversary of its first trade execution, completes the sale of a majority stake to Deutsche Börse, and looks to make additional hires globally in the months ahead.
“This is a very exciting time for QB and our many clients and partners
Hedge funds are storming into the final weeks of 2020, having notched up some of their biggest gains in decades on the back of the US presidential result and positive developments in the search for a coronavirus vaccine, with equity, event driven and cryptocurrency strategies all riding high last month.
Hedge Fund Research’s main Fund Weighted Composite Index grew 6.24 per cent last month, its best monthly return since December 1999, and its second biggest monthly rise since the index launched 30 years ago.
Since the start of 2020, the index – a global equal-weighted measure of more than 1,400
This is the final part in a series of four articles from the Waystone Client Solutions Team, bringing you a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities presented by the shifting European regulatory landscape. Last week, David Morrissey offered his unique personal perspective on the evolution of the third party management company sector. This week, James Woodbridge, Associate Director in the firm’s Cayman office, and part of the Fund Governance Team, provides an update us on the history of SPACs, how they have evolved over the years, and their positioning for the future.
Hedge funds betting against FTSE 100 companies suffered losses of almost USD1.5 billion last month, as bearish equity positions were struck down amid November’s strong stock market rally.
IHS Markit has extended its Data Lake to support unstructured content using the latest natural language processing (NLP) technologies. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Trading technology provider, Tora, has strengthened its fixed income offering by integrating their leading OEMS with Neptune Networks Ltd. The new connection enables clients to view pre-trade analytics from the TORA OEMS to help improve bond execution quality.Neptune delivers high-quality pre-trade bond market data with real-time connectivity between banks and investors. The platform has 28 global dealers in the network providing the buy-side access to 65,000 axes and inventory positions daily and over USD300 billion in notional liquidity. Asset class coverage includes Credit, Rates and Emerging Markets. Neptune is uniquely governed by a collaboration of the largest global banks and
SteelEye, a compliance technology and data analytics firm, and txtsmarter, an enterprise information archiving compliance platform, have partnered to combine txtsmarter’s Intelligent Compliance complete messaging capture and archiving service with SteelEye’s communications surveillance solution. As a result, clients can access native messaging data within the SteelEye platform to assure full regulatory compliance.
“Whilst the use of mobile phones on a trading floor is often restricted, people working from home now regard mobiles as a fundamental communications tool, with employees increasingly using messaging apps to communicate,” says Helen Bevis, Head of Strategic Partnerships at SteelEye. “By partnering with txtsmarter, we can provide
Cocktail parties, oil markets, and why China resembles Bismarck’s Germany as it continues to exert its economic influence – in conversation with Massar Capital’s Marwan Younes…
