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The Exchange Council of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) held its first meeting of the year, chaired by Dr. Bernhard Walter, Head of Market Design and Regulatory Affairs at EnBW AG.
The Exchange Council of the European Energy Exchange (EEX) has discussed dot length the current market conditions set against the background of the Ukrainian conflict.
In light of the current events, energy markets are experiencing unprecedented price developments. In these turbulent times, it is the highest priority of the exchange and the clearing house to ensure the stability of trading and clearing for all listed energy and commodity contracts.
CryptoStruct has completed its normalised low-latency market data and order entry gateways to Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform.
By using the high-performance strategy framework, CryptoStruct’s clients can now easily scale their trading activity on to the exchange, thereby benefiting from the potential for higher revenue.
Thomas Schmeling, Managing Director of CryptoStruct, says: “We are pleased to announce that we successfully added Bitfinex to our product suite. This allows our clients to access this well-established crypto exchange in low-latency and scale their trading activities further.”
“In this collaboration with CryptoStruct, traders will have the capacity to execute advanced strategies, leveraging
Exabel, a data and analytics platform for investment teams, has partnered with Gridwise to deliver a new insights capability for Gridwise’s investment clients.
Gridwise Analytics for Investors will provide hedge funds and asset managers with curated insights based on the most comprehensive gig mobility dataset that exists. The new offering will provide users with easy to navigate dashboards, visualisations and KPI monitoring capabilities, and aid in the idea generation process by flagging trend shifts in Gridwise’s datasets.
Joining forces with Exabel provides alternative data vendors with a value-added presentation and monitoring layer and is powered by Exabel’s market leading Al
Alternative investment firm Angelo Gordon has appointed Alan Isenberg, former Head of Product Strategy and Marketing at Neuberger Berman, as Global Head of its Client Partnership Group.
In this role, he is responsible for leading the firm’s worldwide client and product functions, including new business development, client coverage, product development and management, and client service.
Isenberg will report to Josh Baumgarten, co-Chief Executive Officer of Angelo Gordon, and succeeds former Global Head of Investor Relations Garrett Walls, who will remain a senior advisor to the firm until his planned retirement at year-end.
AIMA, the global representative for the alternative investment management industry, has today published the results of its Q1 2022 Hedge Fund Confidence Index (HFCI) in partnership with Simmons & Simmons and Seward & Kissel showing that confidence levels reported by hedge funds remain resilient despite a number of prevailing headwinds impacting the global economy.
Investors added an estimated net USD10 billion to hedge funds in February, according to data released by eVestment.
The sector had stared the year with net investor redemptions in January but bounced back the following month with inflows just below the five-year February average of USD11 billion.
Negative performance of 0.26 per cent for the month accounted for an overall decline in assets but saw a second consecutive month of outperformance against the S&P500 which lost 3.14 per cent in February.
Permian Investment Partners is gambling that the current problems at Sir Martin Sorrell’s advertising firm S4 Capital will prove to be short-lived, according to a report by The Financial Times.
The New York-based hedge fund upped it holding in the company to 4.1 per cent after its market value tumbled by a third on the back on news that PwC was unable to complete an audit leading to a delay in the publication of S4 Capital’s financial results.
The report quotes an unnamed analyst as saying that s4 Capital had been “eerily and worryingly silent” over the reason for the
Tiger Global’s flagship hedge fund is down 34 per cent in Q1 2022 on the back of poorly performing stock investments and markdowns on private holdings, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The collapse of Archegos and the GameStop short squeeze has radically upended the hedge fund prime brokerage space over the past year, raising fundamental questions over PBs’ lending activities and business models.
Hedge funds are targeting British retailers including Asos, B&Q owner Kingfisher, BooHoo, and Dixons Carphone, taking short positions on the assumption that they will struggle in the current economic climate, according to a report by The Is Money.
Aston Martin and Royal Mail are also attracting the attention of short sellers along with leisure firms such as Cineworld. Some 8.1 per cent of the cinema operator’s shares are currently being shorted.
