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Cboe Global Markets, a provider of global market infrastructure and tradable products, has named a group of thirteen firms as investor partners in the Cboe Digital business.
Risk management and asset allocation have been taking centre stage as interest rate risk and uncertainty have continued to impact markets. A cautious approach with little to no leverage can help hedge fund investors navigate this state of affairs successfully.
Tortoise, a London-based hedge fund manager that has out performed 99% of its long-short equity rivals so far this year, feels the time is right to be “sensibly contrarian” and has out demonstrated the courage of its convictions with a long bet on Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Brazilian hedge fund manager SPX Capital has appointed William Bethlem, a former trader with Goldman Sachs Group, to head up its new Singapore office as part of the firm’s push into Asia, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites SPX Capital co-founder Bruno Pandolfi as confirming that Bethlem, who joined SPX last year, will lead the new office which is due to open in February. An exact headcount of for the new offices initial team of Asia-focused researchers and traders has yet to be confirmed.
The move into Singapore is the latest initiative in SPX’s drive to internationalise
iM Global Partner is to launch a new UCITS fund, the iMGP DBi Managed Futures Fund with its Partner, Dynamic Beta investments, to enable European investors to access the increasingly popular managed futures market.
The fallout from the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s now bankrupt FTX empire continues with another digital assets startup, BlockFi Inc, announcing it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, according to a report by Pensions & Investments Online.
Negative investor sentiment towards digital asset investment continued last week on the back of the fallout from the collapse of FTX with outflows totalling $23 million, according to the latest data from CoinShares.
The company’s latesDigital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report shows that short investment products saw a mixture of inflows and outflows that varied across providers, while long-only investment products predominantly saw outflows.
Ether saw minor outflows totalling $6 million while the large inflows into short products seen the previous week were completely reversed with an outflows of $15.2 million.
Blockchain equities are also suffering from the FTX collapse,
Euronext has launched the Euronext Equileap Gender Equality Eurozone 1001 and Euronext Equileap Gender Equality France 402 indices. These gender equality indices are the first pillars of a broader family of indices addressing challenges around gender balance in the workplace.
In response to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #5 “Gender Equality”, these indices have been developed by Euronext leveraging on Equileap’s Scorecard and Alarm Bell list to help market participants invest in listed companies committed to improving gender diversity and to respond to the increasing demand for Social thematic investments. The index methodology also applies activity-based exclusions, UNGC compliance
Alveo, a specialist in cloud-based market data integration, analytics and data-as-a-service solutions for financial services, has expanded its global data coverage and feed integrations by adding new content from SIX including Sentiment indicators, Tax, and Regulatory Risk data.
Reliable liquidity in FX markets is not as available as it once was. Consolidation in the industry is leading to a huge demand for scale and risks which were negligible are now becoming a priority. The space is also due to see a paradigm shift for EUR and GBP as corporates hedging activity is exploding, and funds or asset managers are also being drawn in by the volatility and macro implications of what is happening.
