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TraditionDATA, the data and information services division of Compagnie Financière Tradition, has launched a new  proprietary Oil Swap Model, offering a real-time source of oil swaps pricing data, drawing directly from Tradition’s 22 brokerage desks’ experience and exposure across the globe.Â
Goji, an FCA regulated, UK-based technology firm that offers investors digital access to alternative investments, has partnered with global financial services provider Apex Group to enable alternative asset management clients to manage all stages of the investor lifecycle.
Appomattox Advisory, a New York based Outsourced Chief Investment Officer firm, has appointed Caroline Lovelace as Chief Operating Officer (COO). As well as serving as COO with responsibility for implementing the firm’s management policies and overseeing operations,  Lovelace joins Appomattox’s investment committee.
Big price swings and talk of a new supercycle have brought commodity hedge funds back into favour with investors after years of being largely ignored, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites preliminary data from Bridge Alternative Investments as revealing that the top 15 commodity-focused hedge funds have increased their assets by 50% this year to a combined $20.7 billion. Some new players in the space have already closed to new investors, while big macro firms are on the look out for top talent as they boost their commodities teams.
The new breed of manager attracting investor interest
Multi-strategy hedge funds including Millennium Management, Balyasny Asset Management, and Point72 Asset Management are recruiting staff at breakneck pace in Asia as market volatility prompts investors to look to firms that employ multiple strategies rather than single managers, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Growth Creek, a New York-based quant hedge fund, has surprised analysts with a stronger than expected Q3 earnings report that showed it gained a massive 20% against the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
In a recent conference call with investors, Managing Director Blake Davis stated that the firm’s “investment approach integrates stringent risk management strategies while methodically identifying catalysts for growth, value-oriented opportunities, and transformative impact. The fact that this impressive run occurred during an extremely bearish time for the market “is a testament to our rigorously disciplined approach to risk allocation and the dynamic methodology utilised by our proprietary in-house
Markov Processes International, an independent FinTech provider of software and services for analysing investment performance and risk, has released eight-year performance data for its MPI Eurekahedge 50 Tracker Index, which it says indicates that its basket of liquid, retail exchange-traded funds can deliver the performance of a diversified portfolio of institutional-quality hedge funds.
The Standards Board for Alternative Investments, an active alliance of institutional investors and alternative asset managers, has published new guidance for asset managers: Internal Governance – A Roadmap for Asset Managers.
Northern Trust has partnered with Saphyre to enhance and automate the account opening process for investment manager clients of Northern Trust’s Investment Operations Outsourcing business.Â
D2X, which is soon to be become the first regulated pan-European derivatives exchange for digital assets, is to integrate data from Block Scholes, an institutional grade crypto analytics, data and research platform, into its pricing tools and risk systems.
