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Mounting signals that the latest leg of the bond market rally has started to reverse fuelled hedge fund strategies last week. Most recent inflation prints outpaced expectations both in the US and the UK, as consumer prices rose 1.9 per cent and 2.9 per cent year over year in August, respectively.
That’s according to Lyxor’s latest Weekly Brief, which also reveals that Sovereign bond yields rose in developed markets, in particular in the UK, and yield curves steepened somewhat. Meanwhile, equity markets extended their winning streak both in developed and emerging markets.
Such developments have been largely supportive for
- 19/09/2017
- 19/09/2017
After a tough start to 2017, macro UCITS strategies began to recover during the summer months. In line with the broader hedge fund market, performance in this category was led by CTA/Managed Futures funds progressing 1.06 per cent during the month of August, still showing -2.19 per cent YTD losses.
Also the relatively smaller group of Currency Arbitrage UCITS funds showed positive performance for the first time in 2017, advancing 0.47 per cent .
Tracking the average fund performance, the LuxHedge Global Alternative UCITS Index continues to grow at moderate pace with a performance of +0.16 per cent during
- 19/09/2017
Fintech research veteran Amar Rajani has joined the FeedStock Advisory Board, effective immediately.
Rajani is Founder and Managing Director of Argella Limited, an advisory firm specialising in FinTech and with specialist knowledge in the research and regulatory space. Prior to this, he spent the past 17 years at Bloomberg LP, where he was Global Product Manager for their research management business with responsibility for the MiFID II research stream. During this period, he was also a founding member of Bloomberg’s Enterprise Products and Solutions team, as well as manager of several teams including London buy-side.
Charlie Henderson, Managing Director
- 19/09/2017
The total value of funds business in Guernsey grew by GBP4.5 billion (1.6 per cent) during the second quarter of this year, the eighth straight quarter of growth for the sector. The island has not experienced a drop in total funds business value since the second quarter of 2015.
Figures from the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) show that, at the end of June 2017, the net asset value of all funds under management and administration in Guernsey stood at GBP271 billion. For the year since the end of June 2016, the total net asset value has increased by GBP23.9
- 19/09/2017
By George Ralph, RFA – Outsourcing your IT support may seem like a luxury in austerity Britain, but it can save time, drive efficiencies and actually give firms a competitive edge. Employees are key stakeholders in defining the perception of a firm, and if they receive a great service when they have an issue with their IT, it will reflect well on the firm’s reputation.
By outsourcing IT support, firms can avoid downtime before it affects business. Reliable partners will make a significant investment in technology to monitor infrastructure, quickly identifying issues and often resolving them before they are brought
- 19/09/2017
SimCorp and TradingScreen have formed a new strategic alliance which, by combining the companies’ respective expertise and products in the order and execution management system (OEMS) space, is aiming to provide the the global buy-side with aseamless and tightly-knit solution for use across the entire investment and trading lifecycle.
The new solution acts as a central repository for trading data and reporting, integrating the OMS and EMS, and tackling many of the pain points associated with current OEMS offerings in the market. The solution meets the much-needed requirement for workflow simplification in the front office by enabling institutional investors to
- 19/09/2017
Linedata has launched an updated interface between its order management system (OMS) Linedata Longview, and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation’s (DTCC) strategic platform for the central matching of cross-border transactions, CTM, as the sector readies itself for MiFID II implementation in January 2018.
Linedata’s partnership with DTCC allows asset managers and hedge funds, using either deployed or hosted versions of Linedata Longview, to directly interface with CTM, which is a major component of DTCC’s Institutional Trade Processing product suite, thereby enabling all users to send trade allocations to their broker/dealers and automatically generate affirmations for matched trades in real-time.
- 19/09/2017
Singapore Exchange (SGX) has launched of SGX Iron Ore Futures Indices, a suite of inverse and leveraged indices calculated off the SGX TSI Iron Ore CFR China (62 per cent Fe Fines) Index Futures.
This is the first series of SGX commodity-based indices to be used as benchmark for tradable products and they will be licensed to Daishin Securities Co Ltd, a Korea-based securities and investment firm.
The suite is made up of two total return indices that offer investors both long and short exposure to the seaborne iron ore market based on the underlying US dollar denominated SGX
- 18/09/2017
Effective immediately, Deutsche Börse Market Data + Services is offering the new information product Eurex Retail Europe, which contains selected Eurex products to private investors free of charge.
Following the free trial phase, the data will be offered for EUR1 per month as of 1 January 2018. The data package was customised for private and small investors in Europe and includes Mini-DAX futures, STOXX Europe 600 derivatives as well as important European equity options.
“By providing the data free of charge, respectively at a very low cost, we are helping private investors to reduce their total trading costs. Retail
- 18/09/2017
Following widespread disruption as a result of Hurricane Irma, the BVI’s international business and finance centre has made demonstrable progress towards restoring business as usual.
With many businesses activating their business continuity plans, a significant level of services and operations have continued either on island or via international networks. Substantive activity that has already resumed in the territory includes new companies being incorporated with more already in the pipeline.
As announced by the BVI Financial Services Commission, via online portal VIRRGIN, the BVI company register also continues to function having been restored within 3 days of the hurricane.
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