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Boutique Investment Firm Assured Capital Partners has re-opened its most successful fund to date to a limited number of new investors in an expanded offering. Only accredited investors may participate.
The firm’s ‘Balanced Growth’ fund, which has beaten the S&P substantially the last three years running, had previously been closed to new participants but was re-opened due to client demand. According to Christopher Harris, investment manager of the fund, the firm expects growth in excess of 20 per cent this year.
The fundraising comes at a time when investors have a greater number of options than ever before. Yet
With the 8th annual edition of ABN AMRO Clearing’s popular Amsterdam Investor Forum looming large on 20 March, Global Fund Media Editor-in-Chief James Williams previews what promises to be one of the event’s essential panel sessions, the Future of Data, which will explore how alternative fund managers are utilising data to inform their investment decision-making…
Cloud platform technology and an ever-growing interconnected global world have led to an unprecedented explosion in the volume and diversity of data. Data dominates both our professional and private lives; an endless stream of information that informs our health and fitness, recommends music and TV
Market data solutions provider MDX Technology (MDXT) has become the first provider of connectivity to real-time market data to integrate with OpenFin, enabling financial institutions and FinTech firms to consume multi-vendor market data feeds.
With an extensive library of market data interfaces, MDXT enables OpenFin clients to connect their desktop applications to a broad range of real-time market data feeds via a single API, providing uniform access to a variety of providers, so data can be consumed by desktop and web applications, as well as excel spreadsheets. This allows users to select the best-of-breed market data provider that best fits
Quant Insight, a London-based firm specialising in machine learning-driven macro analytics, in partnership with Euronext, has developed a new alternative data service, Macro Risk Insight, to provide asset managers with insight into the risk exposure of their investments to global macro factors.
Macro Risk Insight uses innovative quantitative techniques to help clients identify and quantify the key macro drivers, such as real rates, exchange rates, inflation and commodity prices, that drive the pricing of their assets and portfolios. The service, which covers pan-European blue-chip equities, uses Quant Insight’s proprietary adaptive models to calculate each stock’s exposure to macro factors. Additionally, it calculates the sensitivity of each stock for more
MIAX Options is scheduled to launch volatility trading on the SPIKES Index (SPIKE) on 19 February. MIAX Options will list and trade cash-settled options on SPIKES, a measure of the expected 30-day volatility in the SPDR® S&P 500 ETF (SPY), the most actively-traded exchange traded fund in the world.
“For the first time in its history, the volatility trading market will be open to the full supply and demand pressures of the entire US market,” says Thomas P Gallagher (pictured), Chairman and CEO of MIAX Options. “But reaching this milestone is just the beginning of a long line of advancements we have planned for SPIKES and MIAX Options. We are excited to see this process unfold
Investment firms – hedge funds, sell-side research groups, traders, and asset managers generally – are increasingly relying on the web (via the process of web scraping) as a source of investment data, a trend that is set to increase rapidly in coming years, according to a new report from Opimas.
‘Web Scraping for Investments – Asset Managers’ Bid to Generate Alpha Using the Ultimate Dataset’, authored by Opimas founder and CEO Octavio Marenzi (pictured), estimates that, with 206 billion page views per day in 2018, web scraping for investments already accounts for 5 per cent of all web traffic.
By 2020, Opimas expects that
Templum Markets, a registered Broker Dealer and Alternative Trading System (ATS), has appointed Bernard Van der Lande as Chief Issuance Officer (CIO).
Templum Markets operates a regulated technology platform for the private issuance and secondary trading of digitalised securities. As a member of the senior executive team, Van der Lande will lead Templum Market’s origination, issuance and distribution process.
Vince Molinari, CEO of Templum Markets, says: “Bernard’s extensive experience with traditional, cross-border and digitized capital formation strategies, his experience transacting and recapitalising a variety of public and private investment vehicles, and his global network of sophisticated institutional investors and
Assets invested in ETFs and ETPs listed globally amounted to USD4.82 trillion at the end of Q4 2018, following net inflows of USD164.84 billion and market moves during the period, according to ETFGI’s Q4 2018 Global ETF and ETP industry landscape insights report, an annual paid-for research subscription service. 
During the same period, the Global Hedge Fund industry saw assets fall to USD3.11 trillion, with net outflows of USD22.5 billion during the quarter.
According to analysis by ETFGI, USD4.82 trillion was invested in 7,620 ETFs/ETPs listed globally at the end of 2018, representing growth in assets of -0.49 per
PEGAS, the pan-European gas trading platform operated by Powernext, kicked off the new year with one of its best spot monthly volumes by reaching 124.9 TWh in January.
This strong showing was supported by monthly volume records on TTF with 46.5 TWh (previous record: 42.1 TWh in November 2018), on CEGH VTP with 9.7 TWh (previous record: 9.5 TWh in March 2018) and on ETF with 3.4 TWh (previous record: 2.7 TWh in February 2018). The total volume traded in January amounted to 178.0 TWh , including 53.0 TWh on the futures and 161.3 GWh on the options segments, which
The Standards Board for Alternative Investments (SBAI) has published the Standardised Trial Data License Agreement, which addresses issues investment managers face when trialling new data sources, especially ‘alternative data’ and ‘big data’.
The SBAI is a global standard-setting body for the alternative investment industry supported by approximately 200 alternative investment managers and institutional investors who collectively manage USD3.5 trillion.
Currently, trialling new data is significantly slowed due to the negotiating process of a trial data license agreement, as there is no generally accepted agreement available in the industry. Some data vendors offer trial data license agreements, but they lack
