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This webinar explores the extent to which the impact of Covid-19 on global equities has influenced how portfolio managers construct trade positions. And whether accessing non-traditional data sets has helped them in this endeavour; both with respect to idea generation, and risk management. REPLAY NOW
BtcTurk, Turkey’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, and Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin by market capitalisation, have made tether (USDt) tokens available on BtcTurk | PRO. BtcTurk | PRO allows users to circulate USDt tokens rapidly across integrated exchanges to take advantage of pricing differences, thereby reducing counterparty risks and improving trading privacy. As a highly innovative sidechain, Liquid provides guarantees on the speed and confidentiality of USDt token transactions to other Liquid-integrated exchanges and wallets.
“We anticipate a ready demand among the user base of BtcTurk | PRO for Tether,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Tether. “The
Spring Valley Asset Management, an alternative investment manager specialising in the application of systematic investment strategies, has launched the Commodity Advantage Portfolio.The portfolio pursues a multi-strategy systematic approach to investing across a diverse selection of highly liquid commodity markets (including precious metals, industrial metals, energies, grains, foods, fibres and meats), offering the potential for attractive risk-adjusted returns, controlled downside volatility and distinct correlation benefits within a cash efficient (ie, low margin) investment vehicle. It utilises a series of proprietary forecasting models to “map” the prevailing alpha opportunity set for each individual commodity market based upon an assessment of market volatility
Portfolio managers face conflict every day as their ideas and levels of conviction are constantly tested. But as we all continue to adapt to remote working, finding a level of detachment from the office environment seems to be helping PMs re-affirm their edge and listen with greater clarity to their intuition. Could the home office now become a semi-permanent arrangement in pursuit of improved portfolio performance?
Half of the EDHEC-Rosk Alternative Indexes achieved positive performances in September, with Short Selling ending the month as the best performing strategy (1.39 per cent), followed by Merger Arbitrage (0.83 per cent) and Fixed-Income Arbitrage (0.79 per cent). The lowest performing strategy was CTA Global (-1.91 per cent), followed by Emerging Markets (-1.46 per cent) and Global Macro (-1.36 per cent).
Two equity-oriented strategies were negatively impacted by the downturn in the stock market, with a higher decrease for Long/ Short Equity (-1.09 per cent), and a limited drop for Market Neutral (-0.20 per cent). The third equity-oriented strategy, Event Driven,
Eventus Systems, a multi-award winning global trade surveillance and risk management software platform provider, has appointed Vincent Turcotte as Sales Director for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, operating out of Hong Kong. Turcotte has more than three decades of experience at exchanges, broker-dealers and futures commission merchants (FCMs), most recently as Director, Asia Pacific for Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
Reporting to Scott Schroeder, Eventus Global Head of Sales, Turcotte will play a key role in further building on the firm’s regional presence, which it established in Singapore in 2018. Eventus has also expanded its footprint in Europe this year; David Ririe
EEX Group’s European Spot Markets increased by 9 per cent to 53.8 TWh in October 2020 with the EPEX SPOT Intraday Market the main growth driver recording an increase of 20 per cent to 10.3 TWh, a new record.A total of 900.1 GWh were traded on the Intraday auctions including the newly launched Intraday auctions in Austria, Belgium, France and the Netherlands. Launched on 14 October 2020, these new auctions reached a combined 26.5 GWh.
The European Power Derivatives Market increased by 17 per cent compared to last year. Those solid results were mostly driven by the double and triple-digit
Moorgate Benchmarks has been appointed by TP ICAP, a provider of market infrastructure and the world’s largest interdealer broker active in the world’s financial, energy and commodities markets, as the independent administrator of a number of its ISDA-referenced interest rate swap (IRS) benchmarks.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Beeks Group has launched Beeks Analytics as a Service, a new network monitoring and trade analytics tool. Beeks Analytics as a Service is a cloud-neutral monitoring solution for the financial markets and uses Velocimetrics technology to provide financial clients with the ability to consume powerful wire-based analytics as a cloud hosted offering.
“Up until today, clients putting in place a network monitoring and analytics solution have needed to wait for hardware to be delivered and configured before they can benefit,” says Matthew Cretney, Head of Product Management for Beeks, ‘or they have found themselves locked in with one particular hosting provider,
Biden win with split Congress is “best outcome” for riskier assets, says Pictet chief strategist
Biden win with split Congress is “best outcome” for riskier assets, says Pictet chief strategist