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O’Neil Global Advisors (OGA) and affiliates William O’Neil Investment Management Shanghai Ltd and O’Neil Capital Management India Pvt Ltd have launched a family of investment funds utilising algorithmic trading strategies based on proprietary quantitative factor research pioneered by William J O’Neil.O’Neil Global Advisors launched three funds in February 2020 that capture the success of Mr O’Neil’s disciplined approach to investing and is currently seeking qualified investors. The company’s data scientists and engineers utilise a database with more than 100 years of market and stock information to build proprietary metrics that help identify stocks poised to generate alpha. The funds include
Refinitiv is adding Bank Bills pricing information to its real-time data feed, thanks to its newly-expanded partnership with trading platform Yieldbroker. Customers will receive critical information relating to short-term funding, balance sheet management, along with hedging strategies and necessary instrument valuation and risk management.
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Evenlode Investment, an Oxfordshire-based independent investment manager, has added experienced global equities specialist, James Knoedler, to its global equities team.
The alternative investment industry is coming together to aid relief efforts for the victims of Covid-19.From 15 June to 2 July, 2020, iConnections, a provider of customised networking software ands solutions for financial services firms, will host Funds 4 Food – an online fundraiser that will facilitate a series of private capital introduction meetings between alternative investment managers and allocators. All proceeds from event registrations will be donated to charities focused on COVID-19 hunger relief.
“Recognising the devastating increase in the number of people who are facing food insecurity as a result of the pandemic, I realised I was sitting on a powerful
The World Federation of Exchanges (WFE), the global industry group for exchanges and CCPs, has welcomed the decision to end the short selling bans introduced across Europe and commends authorities’ efforts to return to normal operations of fair and orderly markets in the region.This morning ESMA confirmed the welcome decision that those member states who had implemented a short-selling ban would not be renewing, and instead withdrawing, those restrictions as of midnight (CEST) 18 May, 2020.
The WFE’s paper – What does academic research say about short-selling bans? – finds that the academic evidence almost unanimously points towards short-selling bans being disruptive for the
While volatility-focused hedge funds can often experience dramatic swings in performance, the long lean periods punctuated by sporadic surges in returns, Dominicé & Co Asset Management, a Geneva-based volatility-focused manager, has seen its long-running Cassiopeia fund flourish with consistency.
Dominicé, which was founded in 2004 by ex-Lombard Odier head of US and global equities Michel Dominicé, today manages some USD900 million in assets, its products spanning a range of investment strategies, including volatility, equities and real estate, as well as wealth management services.
The firm’s long-running equity volatility and derivatives-focused strategy, Cassiopeia, takes a defensive approach to markets, aiming to
The benefits of digitalisation in the public and private markets are being explored by market infrastructure company The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), to see whether new technologies can strengthen post-trade processes.
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Outsourced trading solutions provider Tourmaline Partners has received a majority investment from Copley Equity Partners, a private investment firm that focuses on established businesses with significant growth prospects.
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has launched a new clearing offering for Japanese Power Futures, marking an important milestone for EEX’s Power Derivatives portfolio and the Asian buisness of EEX Group as a whole. The first trade totalled a volume of 11,040 MWh and was concluded by the power utility companies, Tohoku EPCO Energy Trading Co and ENGIE Global Markets with brokering services provided by the Japanese commodity brokerage firm, enechain Corporation.
Peter Reitz, Chief Executive Officer of EEX, says: “Today is certainly a landmark day for EEX. This new product offering for Japan represents the first Asian market area on
Trading Technologies International (TT), a provider of high-performance professional trading software, infrastructure and data solutions, and Zhengzhou Esunny Information Technology (Esunny), a Chinese trading platform provider and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Zhengzhou Exchange, have formed a strategic partnership to develop a joint technology solution that connects Trading Technologies’ TT platform and Esunny’s platform. The linkage of the two platforms will provide an infrastructure for both international brokers and the global trading community to access Chinese derivatives markets, including the China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFE), Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE), International Energy Exchange (INE), Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) and Zhengzhou Commodity
