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The UK could prove more attractive to hedge funds and other alternative investment funds under new Government proposals to review how asset holding companies for investment funds are taxed.
Performance remains top concern for alternative risk premia managers despite a better year for the industry, according to new research by MJ Hudson Allenbridge.The Alternative Risk Premia Fund Review was conducted using an online questionnaire with 34 asset managers participating, representing the majority of the assets managed in this market.
In 2019, ARP funds performed broadly in line with our long-term expectations, with the median fund returning +3.04 per cent in excess of cash, corresponding to a Sharpe ratio of 0.7.
The returns have been in line with other liquid alternative investments, but lagged exceptionally strong equity and bond
Bitfinex, a state-of-the-art digital asset trading platform, has onboarded Fulgur Alpha, a USD280 million Bahamas-based absolute returns crypto hedge fund, consolidating its position as the leading source of liquidity for institutional investors in the crypto space.The launch of Fulgur Alpha on Bitfinex will put the fund among the three biggest on an exchange widely recognised as providing the best liquidity in Bitcoin. Fulgur Alpha, which is accessible only to professional investors, aims to increase the size of its assets under management in 2020.
The onboarding of Fulgur Alpha cements Bitfinex’s place as an exchange offering a robust trading infrastructure that
Jean-Marie Mognetti, CEO of CoinShares Group, a leading digital asset management firm, today commented on recent market volatility and CoinShares Group’s operational continuity…In light of recent developments in both traditional and digital asset markets, we want to address our clients and the larger community about its operational continuity and robustness, and to share what we are doing throughout the Group to manage the significant amount of uncertainty and risk that results from current volatility levels.
Since 2014 and our launch of the world’s first regulated bitcoin fund, the Group has gone through periods of significant market turbulence, and will do
A stronger revalued yuan is vital to any post-coronavirus global economic recovery, with reinvigorated Chinese financial firepower helping to swerve a deep recession in the next year, according to Toscafund Asset Management’s Savvas Savouri.
The Financial Conduct Authority has introduced a temporary ban on the short selling of certain Italian stocks, which will last until the end of Friday’s trading, in a move to calm the sustained frenzied selling following hefty slides in global stock markets this week.
The ban – which took effect at the start of Friday’ trading, in line with EU rules – covers some 85 companies across a range of sectors, spanning banks including Unicredit, natural gas distributor ItalGas, luxury carmaker Ferrari, and Juventus and Lazio football clubs.
The UK market regulator’s action, which follows a similar move by the
Tether, a blockchain-enabled platform that powers the largest stablecoin, has surpassed USD5 billion in market capitalisation.The importance of Tether (USDt) is growing as the stablecoin performs an increasingly vital function within the digital asset ecosystem. Notably, USDt is playing an increasingly important role in the nascent decentralised finance (DeFi) space where it brings a vast amount of liquidity.
“USDt is increasingly deployed across an array of projects poised to sweep through the financial system over the next five to 10 years,” says Paolo Ardoino, CTO at Tether. “We’re proud that it has breached the USD5 billion mark with USDt manifestly
CloudQuant says it has proven the value in the Precision Alpha Machine Learning Signals (PA Signals) alternative data set. Its detailed data science study shows a long-short portfolio outperforms the equal-weight S&P 500 ETF by an average of 37.9 per cent per year after transaction costs.
Hedge fund losses picked up in February with the industry down 2.81 per cent for the month, according to the Barclay Hedge Fund Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. By comparison, the S&P Total Return Index was down 8.2 per cent for the month.
For the year-to-date the hedge fund industry was down 3.00 per cent through the end of February. The S&P Total Return Index was down almost 8.3 per cent over the same period.
All but a handful of hedge fund sectors were in negative territory for February, as what little good economic news to
Recent spikes in Korean stock market volatility following the global sell-off could see an upswing in margin calls in its autocallables market, potentially driving the index even lower, with investors taking advantage of the higher volatility to obtain higher yields.
Horseman Capital Management, the London-based contrarian long/short hedge fund led by Russell Clark, said on Thursday that the continued issuance of autocallables – structured notes which have automatic calls when a certain upside barrier is reached – suggests investors are looking to capitalise on the recent volatility spike.
Historically a highly volatile market, the KOSPI 200 has seen volatility levels
