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BITREAL Capital has been granted marketing authorisation and registration by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) for the BITREAL Real Estate Blockchain Opportunities Fund 1 GmbH & Co KG (BREBCO 1).
Set up as a Spezial AIF, BREBCO1 is aiming for an equity volume of EUR40 million.
BREBCO1 provides professional, officially registered investments in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology-based coins and tokens. Semi-professional investors, starting from a minimum EUR500,000 investment volume, and professional investors can now invest into the fund.
BREBCO1 aims to invest in blockchain technologies through established tokens, coins and virtual currencies (cryptocurrencies) as well as
All strategies performed well this week with CTAs taking the lead, supported by their short dollar positions and long energy positions, according to the latest Weekly Brief from Lyxor’s Cross Asset Research team.
The diversified L/S Equity and Special Situations funds also shined, mainly boosted by their long bias.
Lyxor writes: “Since the February correction, alpha conditions, which were great, normalised. The worldwide re-correlation of stocks is persisting as investors focus on trade concerns, geopolitics, peaking economic trends and the implication from politics on the pace of reforms in Europe and Japan. In that context, companies’ fundamentals are less
Mike Amey, PIMCO’s head of sterling portfolio management and ESG strategies on the challenges facing the Bank of England…
The Bank of England has had to navigate a difficult set of circumstances in its attempts to raise interest rates. As far back as 2014, Governor Mark Carney suggested that rate rises could come “sooner than markets currently expect,” only for those aspirations to be dashed. Indeed, the next move in interest rates turned out to be a rate cut, in the aftermath of the June 2016 Brexit vote.
Then, after a carefully choreographed set of speeches indicating the time had finally
FlexTrade has launched FlexNOW, an out-of-the-box, broker neutral EMS to address the needs of hedge funds and mini-primes requiring a streamlined, multi-asset trading system at the click of a button.
Designed to handle trading for equities, futures and options, FlexNOW is MiFID II compliant; provides connectivity to leading market data providers; easily integrates with any order management system (OMS) via FIX and API; and comes with its own built-in transaction cost analysis functionality.
According to Rhyd Lewis (pictured), FlexNOW Product Manager at FlexTrade UK, FlexNOW’s zero-touch onboarding and installation process gets clients up and running in a matter of
February’s spike in volatility caused nearly half (42.1 per cent) of investors to adjust their equity market outlook, according to the results of a survey published today by BarclayHedge and Markov Processes International (MPI).
The BarclayHedge, MPI Volatility Angst Survey collected responses from 164 investment professionals about their thoughts on equity markets, economic growth, and the use of managed futures to fend off stock market downturns.
In addition to concerns over increased volatility in the market – which saw its largest-ever one-day spike in the VIX indicator on 5 February, 2018 – respondents listed rising rates (30.7 per cent) and
Trading volume on LiquidX reached USD1.9 billion in the first quarter, as the company rapidly expanded its roster of corporations, assets, liquidity providers, and cross-border capabilities.
Trading volume was up 50 per cent year-over-year, while the number of transactions handled by LiquidX rose 88 per cent.
“Market participants are increasingly discovering the power of operating through a global network such as LiquidX, as they look to more efficiently connect and transact with multiple counterparties in one place,” says Glenn Kocher, who heads global sales at LiquidX. “Our platform empowers major corporations, banks, insurers, asset managers and hedge funds, and
The SS&C GlobeOp Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2018 measured 2.60 per cent, down from 2.91 per cent in March.
“SS&C GlobeOp’s Forward Redemption Indicator for April 2018 was 2.60 per cent, a small increase from the 2.41 per cent reported for the same period a year ago for April of 2017. Although slightly higher than last April, redemptions continue to trend in line with the historically low rates we’ve seen recently,” says Bill Stone (pictured), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SS&C Technologies. “Overall, asset retention for the hedge fund industry has remained strong in the face of market volatility.”
The SS&C
International law firm Dorsey & Whitney has appointed Martha F Coultrap (pictured), as a partner in the firm’s Corporate Group in New York.
Coultrap’s practice focuses on private investment funds and fund investors. She represents a variety of investors in alternative investments, including institutional investors and funds of funds. Her institutional clients include regulated financial institutions, public and private pension funds and foreign pension funds and private investors in domestic and offshore buy-out, growth, venture capital, hedge and special situations funds. She has also represented private and public companies in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, service, marketing and catalog
Investors redeemed an estimated net USD9.45 billion from hedge funds in March. Total Q1 asset flows remain positive at +USD14.33 billion, bringing overall industry AUM to USD3.32 trillion, according to the March 2018 eVestment Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report.
Among hedge fund types, Equity funds were big winners in March, with assets up USD3.95 billion for the month and USD10.43 billion for Q1. Multi-Asset funds were among the big losers for the month, with AUM falling USD10.55 billion in March.
Among primary strategies, Long/Short Equity funds were among the big winners in March, with AUM up +USD2.37 billion for
SuperFeed, a fully-managed market data feed designed and operated by trading and market access technology provider Vela, can now be accessed via the BT Radianz Cloud.
SuperFeed offers customers a single source for data feeds spanning 100 global venues including BME, Cboe, CME, CTA, Deutsche Börse, Euronext, Istanbul, LSE, Moscow, Nasdaq, NYSE, OPRA, Tel Aviv and many others. It is hosted by Vela and delivered as a managed service via the Radianz Cloud, meaning customers do not require investment in their own back-office infrastructure.
SuperFeed is fully compatible with Vela’s existing enterprise software which enables customers to design bespoke
