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Independent depositary and fund oversight provider INDOS Financial has highlighted a series of omissions in the EU’s Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive with the hope these will quickly be addressed by ESMA (The European Securities and Markets Authority).
In August 2020, ESMA published a letter to the European Commission outlining its proposals on further reform of the AIFMD. The letter is the culmination of ESMA’s multi-year review of AIFMD which also included an extensive study conducted by KPMG in 2018, the findings of which were published in January 2019.
“Although ESMA’s letter made some AIFMD related recommendations, there were some
Global alternative asset management firm GCM Grosvenor has appointed Pamela Bentley as Managing Director of Finance effective October and Chief Financial Officer effective 1 January, 2021.
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Evli has appointed Ville Toivakainen as a portfolio manager in its alternative investments team.
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By A Paris – Alternative data and data science techniques can help give hedge funds a competitive edge but, it is the symbiotic integration of human and machine which ultimately underpins managers’ success or failure in their use of these techniques.
“We believe we understand these manager datasets better than anybody else and because of this we’re able to come up with factors and signals that nobody else would be able to identify; or rather it would considerably difficult for them to do so,” asserts Michael Perlow, co-founder of Epsilon Asset Management.
Epsilon employs a bottom-up investment process with a systematic approach which
Using order book data to drive investment decisions was historically the domain of high frequency trading hedge funds. However, as these datasets are being aggregated, harmonised and made searchable, a whole host of hedge funds and investment managers can seek to benefit from insights drawn from order book data to improve their back-testing techniques and enhance their alpha generation capabilities.
“In the past, certain types of high frequency trading firms would have gathered order book data and may have been able to use that in some ways. Now, however, there are systems which allow for analytics to be drawn out
As various pharmaceutical companies around the world endeavour to find a workable vaccine against the coronavirus, alternative data could help funds take an investment view on where the value lies in this global race.
The growing computing power witnessed in the past few years has led to data becoming more accessible, often at the touch of a button. Though there are huge benefits to this, the progress also means the danger of information overload is an unfortunate reality. As more alternative datasets become available to hedge fund managers looking for a competitive edge, they need to make sure they take full advantage of any data they purchase while also incorporating any information they share across their internal company channels.
Support for such an endeavour can come from a firm like Causality Link. “Our research
Huobi Futures, the crypto derivatives market of Huobi Group, is to launch bitcoin (BTC) options for trading on 1 September 1st at 10:00 UTC.
The new options product follows the successful roll-out of Huobi Futures’ Perpetual Swaps earlier this year and aims to give traders more ways to create arbitrage and hedge risk in the crypto market.
Similar to options in traditional financial markets, Huobi’s BTC option is a derivative product that gives users the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell BTC at an agreed upon price and date. Call options give the options buyer the right
BlockFi, a financial services company focused on building products for cryptocurrencies, has partnered with cryptocurrency benchmark indexes provider CF Benchmarks whereby CF Benchmarks will provide independent pricing and valuation of their crypto deposits and loan collateral for its full product suite.
Additionally, CF Benchmarks indexes will empower BlockFi clients to refine asset allocation, improve risk management and measure investment performance. These processes are vital for investors to realise the full value of their crypto holdings, and are impossible to accomplish without reliable pricing sources such as the CF Benchmarks indexes.
By partnering with CF Benchmarks, which is regulated by
Ramsey Quantitative Systems (RQSI) has announced a major shift in its core offerings with the introduction of a new software platform engineered to provide investors with enhanced product customisation and transparency into the firm’s systematic strategy.
Helmed by three major applications – Ravel, Qubit, and Socio – RQSI’s ecosystem of fintech tools enables investors to analyse, build, customise, and backtest the firm’s quantitative funds for robust alpha that’s complementary to an investor’s core portfolio.
Each tool offers considerable access to RQSI’s strategy and funds: Ravel provides insight into the unique factors that shape RQSI’s trading models; Qubit equips investors with the means
