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In a world awash with data, hedge fund equity analysts looking for that one data point that could generate alpha face a significant challenge, akin to finding a needle in a haystack. But as data volumes have grown, so too has the pace of technology innovation.
There is now an impressive array of technology solutions to support the buy-side. One of these firms is Sentieo, a financial data platform utilising artificial intelligence and cutting edge search technology to essentially ‘Googlise” the equity research process; and in turn, help equity analysts find those metaphoric needles in haystacks by spending more time
FX prime brokers, JP Morgan and NatWest Markets are now providing access to Spotex’s institutional ECN. The prime brokers join as Spotex expands its presence in the institutional FX market segment with the introduction of new disclosed direct market access (DMA) liquidity pools as well as other initiatives to broaden participation on its ECN.
“We are excited to have JP Morgan and NatWest Markets join our existing tier-one prime brokers enabling institutional client access to Spotex,” says John Miesner, the firm’s Senior Managing Director. “We are committed to working with leading FX institutions to deliver powerful innovation to the foreign
Nasdaq has partnered with Blockchain Investments & Co, a thesis-driven crypto investment management fund and data provider, to add descriptive, rating, correlation, forecasting and sentiment crypto asset data to Quandl, Nasdaq’s institutional data platform.
The new data products are aimed at providing institutional investors with greater insights, to make better and more informed decisions and boost their confidence in understanding and investing in this upcoming asset class. Nasdaq’s Quandl platform will source the qualitative and quantitative data from Blockchain Investments & Co, enabling a wide variety of in-depth crypto asset data to support purposes such as research, investment and regulatory,
Trium Capital, a London-based alternative asset manager, has brought quantitative investment group Sabre Fund Management (Sabre) into its multi-boutique structure. Sabre, established in 1982, is one of Europe’s longest-running hedge fund firms.
Sabre’s award-winning Quantitative Equity Arbitrage fund has a 17-year track record. The fund, which is equity market neutral, has been managed by Dan Jelicic, Chief Investment Officer, since its inception and has returned 166.56% in the 17 years since its since launch (Aug 2002-July 2019).
Alongside this pioneering strategy, Sabre also brings its successful Sabre Dynamic Equity fund, launched in 2013, which incorporates an element of directionality,
Following a strong July, CTAs reported positive performance again in August. The SG CTA Index was up +3.45 per cent, adding to gains of over +10 per cent YTD, which would put them on track for their best year since 2014.
Short-term CTAs also made performance gains in August, up +1.84 per cent, but returns were mixed with seven out of ten constituent managers positive with the rest negative. Trend followers continued to do well and extend gains, as the SG Trend Index was up +6.52 per cent and +19.96 per cent YTD.
Attribution data from the SG Trend
Exchangelodge, a provider of SaaS digital process automation and data integration solutions to alternative investment managers, has launched Exchangelodge Version 2.0, which includes a Fund Administration Oversight module.
The latest release of the Exchangelodge platform brings together a number of new features and added system functionality, providing substantial benefits to Alternative Investment managers.
“Exchangelodge allows alternative asset managers, investors, and administrators to automate key business processes,” says Robert Caporale, CEO of Exchangelodge. “Our new Fund Administration Oversight module eliminates the need for costly shadow accounting and manual reconciliations.”
The Fund Administration Oversight module automates a fund of hedge fund
All counterparty groups covered by Phase 4 of the Initial Margin (IM) rollout under the Uncleared Margin Rules, including four new in-scope buy-side firms, have now been successfully onboarded onto AcadiaPlus.
AcadiaPlus is a standard, open communications platform that provides the sell-side, the buy-side and fund administrators with specialist applications and a third-party partner ecosystem that enables straight-through-processing of the entire risk-mitigation lifecycle. AcadiaPlus encompasses the company’s flagship services, including Initial Margin Exposure Manager (IMEM) and Margin Manager, and serves as a central source of standardised data for the industry. AcadiaSoft has now integrated all counterparty groups covered by IM
Fenergo, a provider of digital Client Lifecycle Management solutions (CLM) for financial institutions, has appointed Louise O’Connell to the newly created role of Chief Customer Officer.
The new role is aligned with Fenergo’s strategic goal to become even more client centric and was created to establish a cohesive support function for its growing client base. Recent growth is attributed to expansion into new financial segments including retail, business, commercial and private banking as well as wealth and asset management.
With over 25 years’ experience in the financial services and technology sectors, Louise is responsible for creating a cohesive experience
Waratah Capital Advisors has launched the firm’s first liquid alternative mutual fund, the Waratah Alternative Equity Income Fund (WCAL4F).
The new offering will operate pari-passu with one of Waratah’s flagship strategies, the Waratah Income Fund, providing high net worth (HNW) retail investors and their advisors with direct access to Waratah fund manager Jeannine LiChong.
Liquid alternatives provide portfolio construction tools which offer the potential for added diversification and risk-adjusted returns. The Waratah Alternative Equity Income Fund is a long biased actively managed portfolio of North American equities, with a focus on Canada. The fund has the ability to use options and short
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform of EEX Group operated by Powernext, registered a total volume of 223.1 TWh traded on the platform in August 2019, up 48 per cent compared to 2018.
Those strong results were driven by the great performance of both spot and futures segments, which registered 114.7 TWh and 108.4 TWh respectively.
The Dutch TTF spot market contributed to this dynamic and reported its second best month with 54.4TWh exchanged on the platform (record month in May 2019 with 66.9 TWh).
On the futures segment, NCG has reported its best results since 2016 with
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