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With ESG data now a hot commodity across the financial services sector, hedge funds and other asset managers must dig deeper into company metrics to gain an edge, as the industry continues to grapple with a lack of consistent standardisation of sustainability scoring.
Investors poured more than USD7 billion of new capital into hedge funds globally in October, the strongest capital inflows recorded in more than a decade for what is a traditionally quiet month for industry coffers – but there are warnings that new allocations are becoming concentrated in a small handful of funds and strategies.
Quantamental active asset manager Stouff Capital has doubled its assets under management over the past twelve months, and is aiming to launch a new global macro absolute return fund in Q1 2022.
During an extraordinary period of market turbulence, Stouff Capital exceeded its performance goal during the three years since its inception. The Geneva-based investment business generated a net performance of 25 per cent with volatility of one-third the market level. The strategy was able to take advantage of two significant falls in the market thanks to an asymmetric return profile.
Due to its responsiveness, the approach has been particularly
Integral, ahas technology company in the foreign exchange market, reported today average daily volumes (ADV) across Integral platforms of USD50.6 billion in November 2021.
This represents an increase of +0.2 per cent compared to October 2021 and an increase of +5.9 per cent compared to the same period in 2020.
Integral’s global trading network has 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.
FactSet has launched new fixed income trading capabilities for its execution management system (EMS).
Portware, a FactSet trading solution, is best known for its electronic trading and automation services in the listed assets and Foreign Exchange markets. With the introduction of fixed income trading, it is now able to help clients trade more efficiently across more asset classes. FactSet worked with longtime client GIC to build out these new capabilities, which now operates in parallel with the other asset classes already supporting GIC’s global trading desks.
“Faced with greater demands and increased complexities, our traders need to have consistent
ED&F Man Capital Markets has adopted TS Imagine’s real-time risk, compliance and margin platform.
ED&F Man Capital Markets will now be able to manage initial and variation margin risk for SPAN and VaR based methodologies across its futures and options trading and clearing business.
Data management, unoptimised workflows and the complexity of managing multiple systems led ED&F Man Capital Markets to seek out a new risk and margin management solution. Following the success of the TS Imagine platform at clearers and prime brokers, and anticipating the need to upgrade their systems, ED&F Man Capital Markets selected TS Imagine’s fully
Mount Yale Capital Group, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Princeton Fund Advisors, has launched Alpha Intelligent (AI) ETFs – actively managed funds that combine Mount Yale’s manager research and selection capabilities with big data analytics and powerful machine learning.
These funds are based on Ensemble Active Management (EAM), which uses artificial intelligence techniques and predictive analytics of Ensemble Methods that have been utilised within other industries.
Mount Yale has already launched Alpha Intelligent SMAs, and with the launch of these new ETFs, AI ETFs become available on many of the largest investment platforms. This results in over 100,000 individual advisors having
Over the past 18 months, investment firms have gone through periods of uncertainty, volatility, and increased risk, and Linedata’s clients are no exception. These experiences have forced many to “reimagine their operations”, from getting their employees access to the software and tools they need to do their jobs remotely, to changing their processes and how their teams collaborate, to improving how they integrate data and analytics into their workflows.
Sadis and Goldberg, this year’s winner of the Best Law Firm award, is focused on providing a value proposition not only to its clients, but also to the industry.
In a year dominated by the impact of the pandemic, other trends have tended to be somewhat overlooked in many reports. Yet Armel Leslie, Partner at Peaks Strategies, winner of this year’s Best PR and Communications award, is tracking an underlying shift in some areas.
ESG and sustainable investing continues to be a major factor, both in how clients are managing portfolios and positioning for allocations from target investors.
“We are doing a lot more work for donor advised funds (DAFs) and other specialist alternative managers in this regard, and we now have a good track-record and client base in
