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HFR has launched the HFR Bank Systematic Risk Premia Indices which includes 40 indices delineated along a nested matrix of established risk premia asset type and strategy.
HFR says risk premia strategies have experienced a surge in interest from both institutional and retail investors as a result of high liquidity and flexible tactical exposures. The universe of bank risk premia strategies surpassed USD700 billion in notional capital in 2018 and leverages a universe of over 1,200 risk premia products.
The HFR Bank Systematic Risk Premia Indices offer daily performance reporting categorically delineated across a robust asset type and
Hedge funds posted another positive yet meagre gain in June, dragged down by the losses of emerging markets managers, according to data released by Eurekahedge.
Distressed debt hedge fund managers maintained their position across strategic mandates with their year-to-date return, despite the lack of significant movement in the high yield and leveraged loan markets.
CTA/managed futures hedge funds continued to struggle as the commodity markets came under the pressure of trade war concerns and tariff spat between major economies.
Fund managers focusing on emerging markets struggled during the month as the underlying equity markets came under the pressure
Voting for the for the 2018 edition of the annual Hedgeweek USA Awards is now closed. These prestigious awards recognise excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers in the USA.
Uniquely, our awards are based on a ‘peer review system’ whereby our readers – including institutional and high net worth investors as well as managers and other industry professionals at fund administrators, prime brokers, custodians and advisers – are invited to elect a ‘best in class’ in a series of categories via an online survey.
Please note that you can self-nominate and participate in more than one category.
Award winners will be
PortfolioScience, a provider of on-demand risk management systems, today announced that INTL FCStone, an execution, clearing, risk, and market intelligence provider for commodities and other asset classes, has selected the RiskAPI platform to analyse the exposure of its client portfolios.
RiskAPI is a hosted, on-demand portfolio risk analysis service that includes coverage of both listed and OTC derivatives.
“PortfolioScience’s RiskAPI has demonstrated an ability to rapidly provide accurate risk analytics for complex portfolios. Market data is handled by them on the server-side and integration is light, which has meant relatively little time spent on setup, and more time managing
After being just slightly positive in April 2018, hedge fund AUM were just slightly negative in May of this year, with investors pulling USD1.59 billion from the industry during the month, according to the latest eVestment Hedge Funds Report.
Overall year-to-date fund flows are still positive, at +USD12.51 billion, with overall industry AUM sitting at USD3.319 trillion.
Despite the visible negativity, there are still many products gaining assets, but for each gainer there was another losing a little bit more. For instance, among hedge fund types, Equity-focused funds pulled in +USD3 billion in May and Commodities funds pulled in
LGT Capital Partners reports that European alternatives managers’ adoption of ESG principals has increased.
The sixth annual ESG Report assessed some 294 managers globally, grading them on how successfully they have integrated environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into their investment activities.
The report found that the majority, at 58 per cent, of private equity firms are rated as either ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’ in terms of ESG integration, compared to just 27 per cent in 2014, indicating that this has been made a priority by private equity managers.
Europe continues to lead the way in ESG integration, particularly
StatPro Group, an AIM listed provider of cloud-based portfolio analytics and asset pricing services for the global asset management industry, has appointed Gordon Bloor, as the CEO of one its divisions Source: StatPro.
In 2019, the Group is to be structured into three divisions; Revolution (analytics), Source: StatPro (data services), and Infovest (integration services). This structure will make the operations of the business clearer, provide distinct divisional management focus and enable growth in each division based on specific divisional priorities.
Source: StatPro provides a pricing service for a wide range of assets and will contain StatPro’s data revenues from market
CMC Markets has launched Skill providing users with the latest CMC Markets news headlines, articles, analyst tweets and market data, via Alexa home assistant products.
Using the voice command “Alexa, open CMC Markets”, users can also access the latest spreads and price change percentages for five of the most frequently traded instruments on CMC Market’s Next Generation platform.
The CMC Markets Skill provides traders with a way of accessing relevant information in an effective and convenient way. The impact of up-to-date information on decision making has never been more important, and it is crucial that financial traders and investors
VisoTech is to be listed as an independent software vendor (ISV) on Powernext’s pan-European gas trading platform PEGAS, meaning trading members can now enjoy fully automated algo-trading on the spot market.
PEGAS is the leading gas spot trading platform in Continental Europe, allowing its members to trade spot and derivatives gas contracts in the Austrian, Belgian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian and UK market areas. PEGAS also offers options products on the TTF hub.
VisoTech will be the first ISV on PEGAS providing fully automated algo-trading of natural gas. Using the Periotheus autoTRADER, members trading on PEGAS via
NRI has added a new function to I-STAR/CORE to cater for a new listed options trading method, Flexible Options. The new method was recently introduced by Osaka Exchange, on 25 June 2018.
With Flexible Options trading, contract terms are negotiated and customised, registered with the exchange and then delivered to financial institutions twice a day. I-STAR/CORE, which was recently revamped with enriched real-time processing, reliability and expandability, has now added functionality that can automatically upload the security information as it’s delivered twice a day.
As a result, all I-STAR/CORE users can now process the following post-trade processing on the
