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With long-term volatility likely to remain at elevated levels, the LFIS Vision UCITS – Perspective Fund is primed to capitalise on opportunities in rangy equity markets.
The fund – which is run by Edouard Laurent-Bellue, partner and head of fund solutions at the Paris-based quantitative investment manager – allocates to traditional credit and equity assets, while also taking a “fresh look” approach at the established model of multi-asset investing.
The Perspective strategy’s carry and contrarian approach, built around strict allocation and risk management guidelines and limited idiosyncratic risk, has helped it not only weather 2020’s turbulent environment but also demonstrate
An new tool by DailyFX is allowing traders and analysts to get an instant snapshot of global market performance. Market Health allows traders to get a complete picture of global markets and indices in a single place. The free tool provides an instant picture of global market performance, currency strength and exchange opening and closing times.
Using data from Quandl, Market Health allows users to take a macro look at global markets and indices including the Dow Jones, S&P 500, FTSE 100 and DAX 30 to help formulate and deliver on trading strategies.
Split between three main viewpoints, users can easily
Financial technology exchange BTSE and digital asset trading platform Bitfinex have announced a cross-listing of the BTSE and UNUS SED LEO utility tokens in a move that will increase inter-exchange settlement functionalities on both platforms. UNUS SED LEO exists on the ethereum and EOS blockchains, enabling token holders to convert between ethereum and EOS using Bitfinex as a bridge between the two protocols.
As the first exchange token running on Liquid, the BTSE token is carefully designed to augment the user experience on the exchange and within the BTSE ecosystem. Its addition to the Bitfinex platform provides the exchange’s growing user
The impact of the Covid-19 crisis on cybersecurity, and the challenges of remote working on start-up hedge funds’ business operations, proved a key theme at this year’s hedgeweekLIVE North America event, ‘Managing a Start-up or Emerging Hedge Fund in 2020’.
The research team at short and leverage crypto token issuer Amun has published an extensive study on the state of derivatives, leverage and short tokens using data from a survey of 629 participants. The key finding was that 57.9 per cent of participants were either neutral, unsatisfied, or very unsatisfied with their current experience of crypto asset derivatives. In addition, the research shows that 78.1 per cent of crypto traders were familiar with leveraged tokens.
Moreover, the survey reveals that there is a significant gap between the desires of crypto traders and the availability and abundance of instruments to fulfil such
Welton Investment Partners (Welton), an alternative investment manager specialising in non-correlated, actively managed strategies that incorporate quantitative expertise for maximum investor impact, has launched ESG Advantage offering investors a new way to integrate risk mitigation strategies to improve investor outcomes for sustainable investing in the public equities markets. The strategy seeks to elevate ESG away from market risk and beyond market-only performance and to deliver superior, uncorrelated returns over the longer-term in periods of market expansion and contraction.
“ESG Advantage is designed to provide investors with equity-like returns during bull markets and significant downside protection by mitigating systemic risk during
Enfusion, a global provider of investment management technology solutions and services, has appointed Nancy Dornbush, as Executive Vice President, Global Head of Managed Services.
Gramercy Funds Management has expanded its presence in London with the hiring of two experienced research analysts through its affiliated entity Gramercy Ltd. Tolu Alamutu joined as Senior Vice President in June 2020 and James Barry joined as Vice President in November 2019. Both report to Philip Meier, Managing Director and Head of Emerging Markets Debt.
“The addition of Tolu and James to our research team not only strengthens Gramercy’s research capabilities, particularly in the critical regions of CEEMEA and Asia, but also reaffirms our commitment to increasing our footprint in London and Europe more broadly,” says Meier, “Despite the recent
Clearstream, Deutsche Börse Group’s post-trading services provider, has selected Finomial’s client lifecycle management technology to automate trade documentation completion for alternative investments, including hedge funds and private equity.As a leading alternative funds custodian specialising in alternative investments, Clearstream places trades with over 40,000 hedge funds across 45 jurisdictions globally. Finomial’s platform drives efficiency and transparency in what has historically been a labour-intensive, paper-based process required for investing in alternatives. From the end of 2020, Clearstream’s clients will benefit from fully automated trade documentation completion, a client interface to automate collection and provision of individual customer declarations, reducing risk and delivering
Westbeck Capital Management, the London-based long/short energy specialist hedge fund, is positioning for a continued recovery in oil and oil equities after making bumper returns amid frenzied markets during the first six months of the year.
The Westbeck Energy Opportunity Fund has generated a remarkable 76 per cent year to date, having gained more than 11 per cent in the first few weeks of June, which followed a 5.6 per cent return in May.
Westbeck CEO Jean-Louis Le Mee said the fund’s long position at the back of the curve in oil markets drove its May gains, while recent June
