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Systematic hedge funds, quants and algo traders now able to benefit from five years of historic Level 3 data for insights, backtesting and alpha generation, thanks to data and analytics company BMLL Technologies.As the demand for data driven insights to improve trading decisions is continuously increasing, so is the need for new, alternative and granular data sets that help industry participants navigate market volatility while maintaining a competitive advantage. However, the technical lift and scalable compute power required to ingest huge amounts of data and derive meaningful insights is significant. To achieve these insights, a large proportion of quants spend
ARK36 has launched as an actively managed investment fund, focused on the cryptocurrency markets, delivering a risk-adjusted exposure to crypto-assets for professional investors. The fund is regulated as an Alternative Investment Fund with Limited Number of Persons (AIFLNP) by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, (CySEC), is based in Larnaca, Cyprus, and has appointed Grant Thornton Cyprus as fund administrators.
Even during a global pandemic, expansive economic policies are pushing the equities and commodities markets higher, forcing investors to look to minimise their exposure to the rising inflation shown by major fiat currencies. As a licensed AIFLNP, ARK36’s focus on
Some of the industry’s leading multi-strategy hedge fund managers have had a good year so far, with their ability to trade myriad asset classes across the liquidity curve enabling their portfolio managers to harvest numerous sources of alpha.
Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is to expand its credit business with a focus on high yield and distressed credit with CTC Alternative Strategies, based in New York and opening in early 2021. The news comes as the firm announces new hires across its credit business.
Bill Schatz will be joining the firm as a Senior Credit Analyst, where he will lead credit analytics, and focus on distressed and special situations. Schatz joins CTC from CarVal Investors, where he was a senior member of the North America distressed and special situations team. Prior to CarVal, Schatz was a Managing Director at Intermarket
Hedge funds posted a third consecutive month of inflows in August, adding USD5.6 billion in new assets to July’s USD10.5 billion in inflows and June’s USD15.1 billion as the industry continued its rebound from spring’s pandemic-driven redemptions.August’s inflows represented 0.2 per cent of industry assets, according to the Barclay Fund Flow Indicator published by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions.
Coupled with a USD42.6 billion trading profit in August, the month’s inflows brought total industry assets to USD3.36 trillion as August ended, up from USD3.26 trillion at the end of July.
Data from 6,900 funds (excluding CTAs) in the BarclayHedge
Hilton Global Associates (Hilton Global), a provider of actionable investigative due diligence, has appointed Randy Shain as Chief Operating Officer. Shain will help to build out and oversee Hilton Global’s alternative investments line of business, which is focused on hedge funds, private equity, and fund of funds.
“I’m so excited that we’re able to attract an executive of Randy’s stature and experience to our growing firm,” says Melissa Kelley-Hilton, Founder and CEO of Hilton Global. “Randy and I have known each other throughout our many years working in the industry. His knowledge of the alternatives space is unparalleled – he
TORA has integrated its order execution management system (OEMS) with MTS BondsPro, MTS Markets International, Inc’s (MMI) ATS. Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
Hedge fund Kadima Sun Investments (KSI), has gone live with Tier1 Financial Solutions’ CRM platform. The deployment is enabling Kadima Sun Investments to more impactfully and efficiently pitch the firm’s unique investment strategy to potential investors.
Tier1’s cloud-based software is empowering Kadima Sun to uncover new business opportunities by providing a more streamlined, efficient and unified view for increasing outreach, sharing information and tracking interactions with key prospects, while minimising the misplacement of information. Tier1’s interoperable framework supports a robust mobile offering that has been instrumental in allowing Kadima Sun to seamlessly operate during the remote working conditions under COVID-19, with
Hedge fund managers are growing more comfortable with moving data to the cloud in order to enhance operational value, but find data management their greatest challenge as well as their top spending priority for the year ahead. That’s according to a new survey of 56 hedge fund managers by investment management technology provider Enfusion, which reveals the state of cloud in the industry, managers’ system preferences and hosting decisions, data management challenges, as well as the lessons traditional asset managers can learn from cloud-based hedge funds.
“The shift in acceptance and adoption of cloud-based technology marks an inflection point for
Options, a leading provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has achieved the prestigious Microsoft Cloud Platform Gold Partner Status. In doing so, Options joins the top 1 per cent of Microsoft partners worldwide.
