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It is very easy to look at the price of bitcoin and assume that it is way too volatile, perhaps even worthless, and unworthy of wasting one’s investment dollars on. At USD3,236 the price is way off the heights of last December, when it spiked over USD19,000.
But regardless of what one thinks of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ether and other variants, they are but one manifestation of a new digital era that could change the very fabric of how we live and, more importantly, do business.
Underpinning cryptocurrencies, and every ICO you hear about being launched, is blockchain technology.
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Tradex Global Advisors, a privately held hedge fund, has acquired JCL Capital Partners and launched Tradex Realty Partners, a real estate finance company that originates and/or acquires senior loans collateralised by institutional quality real estate in well-located, supply constrained markets.
Tradex Global Advisors has also added John C Lettera as a Partner.
Lettera has over 19 years of legal experience and over 25 years experience in real estate debt originations and acquisitions as well as equity investing. John has extensive experience in structuring complex real estate debt transactions. John founded and successfully managed JCL Capital Partners, establishing itself as a preeminent
GTS, an electronic market maker across global financial instruments, has acquired an ownership stake in Wavelength Capital Management, a New York-based systematic investment firm.
Wavelength was founded five years ago as an independent investment management firm specialising in liquid, transparent, and cost-effective investment solutions designed to protect assets and produce consistent returns in any economic environment. The firm invests using a systematic, research-driven approach that applies quantitative tools to process fundamental economic and market information. Wavelength’s flagship fixed income mutual fund, the Wavelength Interest Rate Neutral Fund (WAVLX), seeks to generate consistent returns in any interest rate environment using systematic
Incident response planning has become a key requirement for all types of businesses, not just financial firms, as people try to maintain a strong security posture in the face of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks. Knowing how to achieve this, however, is a detailed exercise in which companies must invest sufficient attention.
This was the focus of a recent webinar hosted by Eze Castle Integration entitled, “Cybersecurity Incident Response: Before, During and After”, hosted by ECI Certified Business Continuity and Data Privacy Consultants, Matt Donahue and Jeremy Ross.
An incident response lifecycle approach has four separate parts: i) Preparation, ii) Detection
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index, which provides a representative baseline for how the broad liquid alternative investment category performs, returned -0.10 per cent in November, outperforming the -0.62 per cent monthly return of the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index.
The Wilshire Liquid Alternative Index family is a joint offering between Wilshire Funds Management, the global investment management business unit of Wilshire Associates Incorporated, and Wilshire Analytics, creator of the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index.
“Markets experienced mixed performance in November as equities rebounded and credit markets generally declined,” says Jason Schwarz (pictured), President of Wilshire Funds Management and Wilshire
IHS Markit has expanded its alternative data offering for asset managers with the launch of new stock selection and strategy signals covering the automotive sector.
Covering more than 30 auto manufacturers worldwide and providing more than 10 years of historical data, the 32 new factors are designed to assist in the prediction of stock returns using analytics derived from company-specific datapoints on sales, production and market share. They include multiple financial factors for revenue and sales as well as novel factors covering production of electric vehicles and plant utilisation.
Analysis by the Research Signals service at IHS Markit finds positive alpha
MDX Technology’s Project IOWA, a market data business driven ecosystem, has formed a strategic partnership with FactEntry, an independent provider of bond data and documents which supports the needs of fixed income and credit professionals.
MDX Technology is recognised as the industry standard in providing data capture & contribution solutions direct to end user consumers, Project IOWA brings these two worlds together. The FactEntry partnership is the first in a number of specialist data content collaborations the Project IOWA team will be announcing throughout 2019.
Project IOWA is underpinned by MDX’s market leading technology and provides a single and
Deutsche Bank has published its biennial Alternative UCITS Survey, with its findings suggesting that the alternative UCITS market is set for further growth.
Over half of the responding alternative UCITS allocators are planning to increase their allocation through September 2019. Deutsche Bank estimates that these investors collectively will invest USD13.7 billion in new capital to alternative UCITS, having already invested USD9.5 billion in the first three quarters of 2018.
Hedgeweek Special report: Alternative UCITS December 2018
The Alternative UCITS survey, which complements the annual Deutsche Bank Alternative Investment Survey, was completed by 154 global hedge fund allocators with 114 of
RSRCHXchange, the research marketplace and aggregator, has launched its Partner Provider Programme including the first intake of sell side firms.
The new Partner Provider Programme represents those firms who opt into the RSRCHX marketplace to sell their research services, including subscriptions, individual reports or time with analysts.
The launch of the Partner Provider Programme is a result of a substantial uptake in the number of providers transitioning to a commercial relationship on RSRCHX. Today more than 325 firms offer their research services for sale on RSRCHX. The Programme includes greater transparency for Partner firms and additional marketing efforts and communication
Seven2one Informationssysteme (Seven2one) is to assume the technical operation of The European Energy Exchange’s (EEX) Transparency Platform during the first quarter of 2019.
Seven2one has so far been in charge of software development.
EEX will continue to be the contractual partner for the reporting companies and market participants. Likewise, the service and contacts at EEX will remain unchanged.
“Having software development and technical operation as a one-stop shop solution enables us to speed up the implementation of new requirements resulting from regulatory changes,” says
Dr Christoph Schlenzig, Managing Director of Seven2one.
Dr Tobias Paulun (pictured), EEX Chief Strategy Officer, says:
