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Digital asset investment products saw inflows last week totalling USD1.47 billion, the largest on record by a significant margin, according to the latest Weekly Digital Asset Flows report from CoinShares.
During the week total assets under management reached a new record of USD79.2 billion but closed week-end at USD76.7 billion.
The record inflows were a direct result of the US Securities & Exchange Commission allowing a Bitcoin ETF investing in futures and the consequent listing of two Bitcoin investment products with inflows totalling USD1.24 billion.
Other altcoins saw inflows with the most notable being Solana, Cardano and Binance.
As more alternative fund managers explore the yield opportunities in private debt, one of the risks is introducing too much complexity to their middle- and back-office operations. Outdated accounting and portfolio management systems or insufficient internal resources for tracking individual loan performance increase that risk.
The recent steady flow of new investor capital into hedge funds this year could be showing signs of slowing down, with less than half of managers (44 per cent) seeing positive inflows in September, according to new eVestment research.
Overall, investors yanked USD7.99 billion out of the global hedge fund industry during September, according to eVestment’s latest ‘Hedge Fund Asset Flows Report’. Coupled with a performance slide of 0.57 per cent for the month, hedge funds’ overall assets dipped from USD3.62 trillion in August to USD3.59 trillion in September, eVestment’s metrics show.
“That quarter-end data would show outflows is not
SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc (Nasdaq: SSNC) has been chosen by Gordian Capital, an Asian institutional fund management platform, with AUM of USD7 billion, to expand its relationship with SS&C Technologies Holdings in Singapore and Japan.
According to new research from quant technologies provider SigTech, 70 per cent of pension funds and other institutional investors believe demand for custom portfolio solutions will increase strongly.
The TM CRUX UK Special Situations Fund has generated a 44 per cent return for investors over its first three years, underscoring the attractions of long-term capital growth through bottom-up, high-conviction investing in mispriced British stocks.
The Fund is ranked amongst the top 10 performers investing in UK companies over the last year and has grown to over GBP200 million AUM.
Launched in October 2018, the TM CRUX UK Special Situations Fund balances growth and value, investing in UK companies experiencing strong growth but are trading at attractive valuations. The Fund also backs companies where the prospects of management change
Princeton Fund Advisors’ Princeton Premium Fund has been recognised as the Best Liquid Alternative Fund – Multi-Strategy Hedge at the Hedgeweek US Awards 2021.
BTIG’s Prime Brokerage division has been named the Best Prime Broker for Start-Up and Emerging Managers by Hedgeweek’s Americas Awards 2021.
Now in its tenth year, the annual Hedgeweek Americas Awards “recognise excellence among hedge fund managers and service providers in the Americas across a wide range of categories.”
According to Hedgeweek, 41,227 votes were cast in the process to select firms of which 44 per cent were submitted by fund managers, 20 per cent by investors and 36 per cent by service providers. BTIG’s award was announced at Hedgeweek’s awards ceremony on Thursday, 21 October, 2021.
“Our Prime Brokerage
Macquarie’s Commodities and Global Markets Group (Macquarie) and UK fund manager, Protean Capital LLP (Protean) have executed the first Quantitative Investment Strategy (QIS) index, that uses signals based on a reinforcement learning (RL) model to inform systematic FX volatility carry trading strategies.
Through its unique market position, Macquarie provides access to a range of specialised investment products, hedging and tailored financing solutions. Macquarie’s Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) team tailors systematic products, providing access to commodity, equity, FX and fixed income exposures.
Macquarie leveraged its pioneering technology platform, incorporating state-of-the-art machine learning models, to develop a RL algorithm. The algorithm sizes
By Andrew Beer (pictured), founder and managing member of Dynamic Beta Investments – Almost overnight, allocators started to swap out fixed income exposure for hedge funds. What’s driving this? Two trends: after large and sudden drawdowns in both 2020 and 2021, many allocators simply want out of traditional fixed income; meanwhile, with alpha back, hedge funds appear to have much better return potential with comparable or lower risk.
Let’s start with the first trend. The difficult reality today is that fixed income investors face paltry expected returns with potentially big downside risk.
Take AGG, an ETF that tracks the Barclays
