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QuantBot Technologies, a global multi-billion-dollar quantitative manager, has selected 3forge’s full stack development platform for its front-end technology across all departments.
Emerging Markets hedge funds extended gains through mid-2023 with India and Latin America funds leading the way against a backdrop of persistently high inflation and the possibility of a US recession, according to the latest performance data from HFR.
Former Morgan Stanley currency trader Thiago Melzer, is set to close his Brazilian hedge fund, Upon Global Capital, having been hit by a double whammy of wrong-way wagers and rising double-digit interest rates in Brazil, according to a report by Bloomberg.
A 300% surge in graduate applications this year has prompted Rokos Capital Management, a $15.5bn London-based hedge fund firm, to draw up plans to ramp up its graduate intake programme next year, according to a report by Financial News.
Dr Robert Adelman, an ex-client of Proskauer Rose, has settled a $636m malpractice lawsuit against US law firm over his ousting from a hedge fund he co-founded, after a judge ruled the case could go to trial, according to a report by Reuters.
Cboe Global Markets is aiming to position an exotic options trade used by hedge funds to profit from stock dislocations, as a more mainstream option for investors with the launch of the Cboe S&P 500 Dispersion Index, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Bitcoin and ether will sustain their strong performance for the rest of this year, according to Nickel Digital Asset Management, a London-based regulated digital assets hedge fund manager. Nickel research has found that institutional investors and wealth managers are confident about digital asset performance.
Former Deutsche Bank colleagues Michael Sutton and Alex Mahler are teaming up again at Mahler’s Alinor Capital Management to launch a new distressed debt hedge fund, which is expected to be one of the largest European hedge fund launches of the year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Oil trader Pierre Andurand has seen year-to-date losses at his main Andurand Commodities Discretionary Enhanced fund shrink to 15% from more than 50% earlier in the year on the back of a resurgence in crude prices, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Elmar Zumbuehl, GAM’s chief risk officer, has been proposed as the company’s new CEO candidate after Randel Freeman, the hedge fund veteran who had been lined up for the role, backed out due to “unforeseen family circumstances”, according to a report by Financial News.
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