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The hedge fund industry turned in a fourth consecutive positive month in July as stock markets’ continued strong performance contributed to a 2.76 per cent return, 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 5.64 per cent in July and closed at an all-time month-end high.
Year-to-date, the hedge fund industry moved back into the black, up 0.07 per cent. The S&P 500 Total Return Index was up 2.39 per cent over the same period.
Every hedge fund sector tracked by the Barclay Hedge
The Alternative Investment Management Association has launched a new initiative aimed at improving transparency around diversity and inclusion within the global hedge fund and alternative investment industry.
Hedge fund industry trade group AIMA, in partnership with investment consultancy Albourne Partners, has unveiled the voluntary Diversity & Inclusion questionnaire, which looks to gauge how the industry is improving diversity within firms.
Specifically, the questionnaire – which is freely available to alternative investment managers, investors and service providers – will help investors better probe asset managers on the measures they are taking to improve representation of women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+
Quantumrock, the Munich-based AI investment technology firm, has announced its fifth month of strong performance for its flagship strategy Volatility Special Opportunities Program (VSOP).Up 37.02 per cent for the year, and by 0.63 per cent for the month, VSOP has continued to prove that it can deliver encouraging results when markets are relatively calm, as well as during times of volatility. This month, the balanced component moved with the market and contributed +2.42 per cent.
VSOP entails a systematic multi-strategy approach in the S&P 500 index volatility market with a real-money track record dating back to July 2016. The
Elliptic, a specialist in crypto asset risk management solutions, has integrated its blockchain analysis solutions for transaction and wallet risk screening with Fireblocks’ institutional platform for storing, transferring, and issuing digital assets, automating anti-money laundering (AML) compliance for shared institutional customers.Now that Elliptic’s real-time risk scoring and analytics are exposed directly in the Fireblocks platform, their joint customers have the ability to quickly identify and take action on potentially risky transactions in a scalable way, saving time and cost in their compliance operations.
“The cryptoasset market is developing and gaining the attention of institutional and retail investors as an efficient
Alternative investment platform CAIS, which provides financial advisers with access to a wide range of alternative investment strategies including, hedge funds, has reported rapid adoption of its CAIS IQ learning system.Read the full story at Wealth Adviser…
Digital B2B ecommerce marketplace provider Distichain is partnering with SECDEX Digital Custodian (SECDEX), Africa and the Middle East’s first regulated fully operational digital custodian. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
By James McDonald (pictured), CEO/CIO of Hercules Investments – America is in bad shape. While the rest of the world seems to be moving past the Coronavirus, the US is still experiencing record deaths nationwide. Americans continue to struggle just to get bills paid, while Washington debates semantics surrounding mail-in voting.
Hedge funds have collected almost EUR200 million from successful bets against the embattled travel and leisure sector, with short positions in Lufthansa, TUI and IAG driving the bulk of the gains recently.
New analysis by Ortex, the London-based equity analytics firm, shows short sellers made EUR196 million in profits from component companies of the STOXX Europe 600 Travel & Leisure Index in July – a sharp rise from the EUR41 million worth of gains in June.
Bets against major airlines and package holiday groups fuelled returns as the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has put European consumers’ summer vacation plans on ice.
Pico, a provider of technology services for the financial markets community, has launched a new managed colocation facility at Chunghwa Telecom’s CHT Taipei IDC in Banqiao, New Taipei City. Pico is providing its own local Intellihands service in CHT Taipei IDC as well as for the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) data centre. Connectivity to TWSE, Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX), and the Taipei Exchange (TPEx) will be offered in the future to clients hosting in CHT Taipei IDC.
In March 2020, 24-hour continuous trading on Taiwan’s stock market came into effect, replacing the call auction trading method. Pico responded by introducing
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