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A surge among hedge funds in the first six months of 2022 has been led by the Haidar Jupiter fund which gained 4.6% in June, boosting returns this year to 170%.
The Odey European Inc hedge fund meanwhile, returned 2.2% last month, pushing H1 gains to 114%, according to a report by Bloomberg, which cites recent investor letters
In general, macro hedge funds, which follow economic trends to bet across asset classes, are soaring so far this year on the back of increased volatility in stocks, bonds and commodities markets. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, macro funds returned an
Broadridge has recruited two highly experienced, senior industry experts – Ian Mawdsley has joined as chief product officer of Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions (BTCS), while Christian Voigt has joined as a senior product manager within Ian Mawdsley’s team.
Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions has ambitious goals and a clear roadmap to achieve them, and recruiting senior talent of Ian’s and Christian’s calibre forms part of our ongoing strategy to build a first-class team.
The Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions platform supports multi-asset class, multi-workflow trading for both agency and principal trading activities. The platform empowers users with advanced
The Quantology Absolute Return fund (U-USD shares) was up +2.0% in June while the Nasdaq-100 TR lost 8.9% and the S&P 500 was down 8.3%.
Moody’s Analytics has added market risk analytics to its PFaroe Portfolio Management (PM) Platform.
PFaroe PM now offers historical and Monte Carlo risk analytics alongside its multi-asset class performance attribution capabilities. PFaroe PM is a cloud-based solution which allows users to customise their performance attribution and risk analyses while providing an interactive tool to probe and analyse results.
The historical and Monte-Carlo analytics use a new simulation engine to generate market scenarios. Historical simulation applies past returns to market factors such as equity prices, interest and FX rates, market-implied inflation rates, among others. Monte-Carlo simulation, by comparison, uses the correlation
The Coast Capital Engaged Fund advanced 3.3% in Q2 despite market turmoil that saw a 16% drop in both the S&P 500 and MSCI Europe indices.
Integral, a technology company in the foreign exchange market, has reported that customer average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms totalled $49 billion in June 2022.
This represents an increase of +5.2% compared to May 2022 and a decrease of -3.9% compared to the same period in 2021.
Integral’s cloud-based SaaS FX workflow solutions have been designed to meet the trading needs of the widest variety of buy-side FX market participants, including banks, brokers, asset managers, and hedge funds.
S&P 500 Index (SPX) options set a new monthly ADV record of 2.3 million contracts in June, surpassing the previous record of 2.2 million in May 2022, according to the latest Cboe Global Markets Monthly Volume & RPC/Net Revenue Capture Report. Total volume for the month reached nearly 48 million contracts.
SPX Weeklies Tuesday- and Thursday-expiring options continued their strong debut, with approximately 5.1 million Tuesdays options and 4.4 million Thursdays options traded in June.
Cboe Europe Equities meanwhile had an overall market share of 23.5 per cent in June, the highest month since August 2018m while Cboe BIDS Europe,
Archax, a global, regulated, digital asset exchange, brokerage and custodian based in London, has selected METACO, a provider of digital asset custody and orchestration technology to global financial institutions, to underpin and expand its institutional custody solutions for digital assets.
Hilbert Group, an investment firm focusing on digital assets and blockchain technology, has appointed Richard Murray to join the executive team as CEO of Hilbert Capital, the group’s asset management division.
BKCoin Capital (BKCoin), an institutional crypto investment firm at the forefront of the digital assets revolution, has partnered with Nova, provider of an intelligent onboarding platform.
The partnership will streamline the onboarding process for institutional investors allocating to BKCoin’s digital asset strategies by replacing subscription paperwork with digital workflows that automate compliance.
BKCoin’s partnership with Nova enables their investors to complete their fund subscriptions through intuitive digital workflows that prevent human error. As investors complete their subscription on Nova, they passively build an identity profile that can be reused on future subscriptions and financial transactions across any firm in the
