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The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association has issued a four-point call to action for the alternative investment industry practitioners as part of a new report on the future of alternative investments.The Next Decade of Alternative Investments: From Adolescence to Responsible Citizenship, also includes a wealth of data on the growth of the space, plus insights into where alternatives are heading in the decade to come.
The paper, which began development in early 2020, is particularly timely in the current climate as the global economy and investment community are seeking stable footing in the midst of the still-unfolding COVID-19 pandemic.
Financial information firm Refinitiv has unveiled key enhancements to its ESG scoring methodology, making its company scores “more data driven than ever”. Accounting for industry-based materiality weighting of metrics, with minimal company size and transparency biases, the updated methodology allows investors and companies to more objectively conduct industry peer-comparisons.
Refinitiv ESG scores are designed to transparently and objectively measure a company’s relative ESG performance, commitment, and effectiveness across 10 main themes (emissions, environmental product innovation, diversity and inclusion, human rights, shareholders, etc) based on publicly reported data.
The enhanced ESG scores are a uniquely effective way to assess materiality across industries,
Data management and ResTech specialist RIMES is aiming to help clients deal with some of the challenges for remote working by providing free access to its Feed Audit tool.Read the full story at Institutional Asset Manager…
MAX Markets Limited (MAX) a new London-based digital, multi asset exchange, is aiming to provide professional investors with a regulated marketplace, subject to FCA approval, to enable the buying and selling of cryptocurrencies, security tokens and other digital assets.Providing access to digital products via the familiar secure and regulated channels, MAX’s approach highlights the paradigm shift from traditional to digital exchanges including post trade. In the current market, investors are expected to pre-fund digital activity with their inventory immobilised in a closed ecosystem of the exchanges choosing. MAX is unique in its facilitation of inventory mobility, within a familiar market
Hedge fund solutions business Titan Advisors is to assume the management of several of Alternative Investment Group’s funds with Sam Sussman, Portfolio Manager and Head of Investment Strategy at Alternative Investment Group, to join Titan and take the lead in managing those funds.Sussman says: “I look forward to working with Titan’s experienced investment team and continuing to deliver for our investors the strong risk-adjusted returns that have always defined our strategy. The investment approach will not change as a result of the transaction and the Funds will continue to be managed to bring our investors the consistent results that we
The Eurekahedge Hedge Fund Index registered its strongest outperformance relative to underlying markets since October 2008, outperforming the MSCI AC World Index by 9.22 per cent in March.Long volatility and tail risk hedge funds topped the performance tables for Q1 2020, outshining other strategies as market volatility level remained elevated during the past two months. The CBOE Eurekahedge Long Volatility Hedge Fund Index and the CBOE Eurekahedge Tail Risk Hedge Fund Index have returned 39.70 per cent and 44.29 per cent respectively over the first quarter of the year.
The Eurekahedge AI Hedge Fund Index gained 0.27 per cent in
Hedge funds suffered their second biggest loss on record last month, tumbling 7.25 per cent on average as the sharp economic downturn following the Covid-19 outbreak took its toll on performance.
With markets in turmoil resulting from the economic impacts of the coronavirus, managed futures made good on their diversification thesis and gained 1.94 per cent in March according to the Barclay CTA Index compiled by BarclayHedge, a division of Backstop Solutions. Year-to-date, CTAs have gained 1.88 per cent.
“Fear driven selling picked up steam in March and continued to drive equity and energy markets sharply lower. At its intra-month low point, the S&P 500 Index was down 26 per cent and crude oil dropped to levels not seen for 18 years,” says Sol Waksman, president of BarclayHedge. “At mid-month, investors piled
Alan Davies, former Director of SS&C Depositary Services Limited, has joined INDOS Financial, an independent fund depositary and oversight business, as Managing Director.
QuantHouse, a global provider of end-to-end systematic trading solutions including market data services, an algo trading platform and infrastructure products and part of Iress (IRE.ASX), has completed the first phase of its infrastructure process automation programme using cloud-based robot agents.QuantHouse says that increased levels of automation enable it to rapidly add resources to a number of in-house processes with minimal human intervention, using secure cloud native technologies that deliver automated deployment and monitoring tasks. This infrastructure process automation initiative also ensures that QuantHouse is well positioned to expand easily into new markets that trade 24×7.
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