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Phoenix American, a transfer agent and fund administration provider for alternative investments, and Alternative Investment Exchange (AIX), a digital platform built to improve processes for investing in alternatives, have partnered to provide straight-through processing for alternative investments.Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…
GoldenSource has launched a new Quant Workbench tool that allows quant developers and research analysts to do their work on approved validated data sources. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Murano, the ‘matchmaker’ for funds and institutional investors, has launched a new consulting division, Murano Consulting.Murano Consulting will provide expert industry consulting services to asset managers and investment firms. Focusing primarily on business development and investor marketing, Murano Consulting will produce competitor analysis, investment strategy audits and other bespoke management consultancy services to help clients reach their financial goals. The consultancy has already worked on a number of projects for clients including:
• Perception analysis of allocator attitudes towards and appetite for investing in private debt opportunities
• Investor messaging and IR best practice for a household name multi-asset manager
Ampleforth, the protocol behind the supply elastic digital currency, AMPL, has launched the world’s first rebasing Smart Pool in collaboration with programmable liquidity protocol and aggregator, Balancer. On Balancer, Smart Pools are controlled or private pools owned by a smart contract. These pools can be made of two to eight token constants, and customized with configurable weights that represent the desired ratio of each token in a pool.
Working closely with the Ampleforth team, Balancer will be debuting today the first USDC-AMPL Smart Pool, starting out with a 50/50 ratio. As the supply of AMPL expands or contracts every 24hrs,
Bloomberg and Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) have launched a comprehensive suite of 21 alternative risk premia benchmark indices. The Bloomberg GSAM Risk Premia Indices, available through the Bloomberg Terminal, represent fully transparent and replicable indices of widely accepted alternative risk premia styles for liquid, rules-based investment strategies.
These new indices combine Bloomberg’s years of experience in systematic strategies research with the field expertise and research insights from GSAM’s Quantitative Investment Strategies team, as well as valuable feedback from asset owners and consultants. The indices are replicable, transparent and represent investment styles for which there is practitioner consensus, supporting academic
As Wall Street experienced its best August since the 1980s, the hedge fund industry posted its fifth straight positive month returning 2.42 per cent in August, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index, compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. By comparison, the S&P 500 Total Return Index was up 7.19 per cent in August.
For the year-to-date, the hedge fund industry added to its gains in August, returning 2.40 per cent for 2020. The S&P Total Return Index returned 9.74 per cent over the same period.
All but three hedge fund sectors tracked by the Barclay Hedge Fund Indices
BTON Financial has appointed fixed income and electronic trading expert, Andrew Bernard, as Non-Executive Director. Bernard joins BTON’s advisory board from Tradeweb, where he held a variety of senior positions over the past 17 years, including MD, Head of of Asia and as an MD in the London office. Prior to Tradeweb he served as Head of European Government Bond Sales and as Principal of the Global Leveraged Group for Bank of America, and Director of UK sales at Société Générale. Bernard will play a key role in shaping the direction of the company and delivering BTON Financial’s plans to bring
Paris-based systematic hedge fund Quantology Capital Management – which trades US equities using a quarterly earnings-based quant model – has generated positive returns from IT and internet positions, and now sees US markets firmly in “risk on” territory.
FXCM Group, an international provider of online foreign exchange trading, CFD trading, cryptocurrencies and related services, has added Volatility Index CFDs to its range of available trading instruments. In tracking the future volatility of the markets, rather than the stock prices themselves, the Volatility Index CFD now provide FXCM’s clients with the opportunity to profit directly from the unprecedented market swings seen today irrespective of which way the market is heading.
With the ticker symbol VOLX, aka “Volatility Index”, the product has the recently launched CBOE Mini VIX Future as the underlying asset. VOLX uses the price of options on
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned 1.13 per cent in August, underperforming the 1.54 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index. The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index family aims to deliver precise market measures for the performance of diversified liquid alternative investment strategies implemented through mutual fund structures, backed by a proprietary classification methodology.
“Markets continued to rally in August as optimism surrounding the rapid development of a COVID-19 vaccine helped drive markets to historic highs,” says Jason Schwarz, Chief Operating Officer of Wilshire
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