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Thasos, an alternative data intelligence firm that transforms real-time locations from mobile phones into objective and actionable insights, has launched a real-time foot traffic product, QStreams wjhich has been developed specifically for quantitative hedge funds.
Thasos has partnered with Battle of the Quants to make QStreams available free of charge for a limited time via an exclusive beta program starting May 21, 2019.
“Mobile data has a well-justified reputation for being noisy and challenging to work with, but that’s precisely what makes QStreams so novel — the combined level of quality and coverage is unprecedented. By partnering with Battle of
The investment team of Agilis Investment Management, a specialist multi-strategy investment manager, is to join RWC Partners.
The move will see Agilis founder Clark Fenton, along with colleagues Charles Crowson and Praveen Kanakamedala, joining RWC to form the RWC Diversified Return team.
Prior to founding Agilis, Fenton served as co-CIO of Permal Group, one of Europe’s most successful diversified fund of hedge funds. He started his career working in capital markets, primarily at Morgan Stanley.
Crowson joined Agilis from the hedge fund Mason Capital Management. Kanakamedela, who manages operations, risk and compliance for the firm, joined Fenton and Crowson from
After a strong first quarter of the year, most alternative UCITS funds continued to edge higher in April with the LuxHedge Global Alternative UCITS Index posting a gain of 0.58 per cent bringing year-to-date results for the average fund up to +2.52 per cent.
Four out of five funds have posted positive results so far in 2019. Nearly every strategy index showed a positive performance, with funds in Macro and Merger Arbitrage leading the pack.
Within the Equity Hedge strategy group, Equity Long/Short funds had again a very good month with the LuxHedge Equity Long/Short UCITS Index up 0.78 per
FundRock Partners Limited has been selected by Carmignac, to act as the Authorised Corporate Director (ACD) for its six new UK domiciled sub-funds structured under the FP Carmignac ICVC OEIC umbrella.
In this capacity, FundRock will provide the legal and regulatory framework for the OEIC and undertake the regulatory oversight of the funds. Carmignac Gestion Luxembourg will act as the investment manager, sponsor and distributor of the OEIC.
Carmignac, Europe’s leading independent asset manager, is widening the availability of its strategies to UK investors with the launch of six locally domiciled sub-funds. The launch of these UK sub-funds, in
Alternatives 4 Children (A4C), a Dutch alternative investment industry charity that has raised more than a EUR1 million since inception, is launching a UK chapter.
Global funds transaction network Calastone has migrated the technology underpinning its Distributed Market Infrastucture to a blockchain-enabled system.
The migration of Calastone’s global network of more than 1,800 customers across 41 markets represents the largest community of global financial services organisations connecting and transacting via distributed ledger technology.
Less than two years since Calastone announced the completion of its first phase to test the feasibility of using blockchain to develop a common global marketplace for the trading and settlement of funds, the company’s DMI is today live. This represents a major step in enabling digitalisation and friction-free trading at a
Luzheng Futures & Guohai Liangshi Capital Management selected for cotton options market making, powered by Horizon.
Two of Horizon Software’s Chinese clients, Luzheng Futures and Guohai Liangshi Capital Management, have been named among ten companies granted market making licenses for the recently-launched cotton options market on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE).
The new cotton options market in China is the second exchange-traded commodity option on the ZCE and the fifth commodity option in Mainland China.
Adrien Mastronardi, Head of Sales APAC at Horizon Software, says: “It is such a great honour to see our Chinese clients selected as part
Shore Capital Partners (Shore Capital) has formed Southern Ear, Nose, Throat and Allergy Partners (SENTA) and completed a strategic partnership with Northwest ENT and Allergy Center (Northwest ENT).
Northwest ENT is a leading ear, nose and throat (ENT) and allergy services provider with seven locations including two affiliated ambulatory surgery centres in the Greater Atlanta, Georgia metro area. The company offers comprehensive medical and surgical ENT and allergy services, including treatment for thyroid disorders, sinus conditions, ear pain, allergies, and throat disorders. Northwest ENT will continue to operate under its brand.
Shore Capital is partnering with Northwest ENT’s existing
Managed futures posted another positive month in April with a 0.85 per cent return according to the Barclay CTA Index, compiled by BarclayHedge. Nine of BarclayHedge’s 10 CTA indices had gains in April.
Year to date, the Barclay CTA Index has gained 2.28 per cent. All ten of BarclayHedge’s managed futures indices are now in positive territory for 2019.
“Four consecutive months of ongoing rallies in energy and global equity markets have provided a much needed tail wind for CTA performance,” says Sol Waksman, president of BarclayHedge. “An ongoing downtrend in agricultural markets provided a boost for trend traders at the
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) has revised the calendar for the 2019 auctions of EU allowances (EUA) and EU aviation allowances (EUAA) for the 25 EU Member States participating in the common auction platform (CAP2) to include the allowances of the EEA EFTA states, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
The auctioning of emission allowances on behalf of the EEA EFTA states will commence on Monday, 3 June 2019. The EEA EFTA states’ allowances are included within the auctions, which EEX already conducts on behalf of the 25 EU Member States.
The auction details remain unchanged: The primary market auctions on behalf
