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BMLL, the independent provider of harmonised, historical Level 3 data and analytics, has expanded its product, offering to include global futures, now available as asset class packages.
The BMLL Level 3 Futures Data product brings together full-depth order book data for all major futures asset classes in a harmonised format within a scalable compute environment. This allows brokers, asset managers, hedge funds, FCMs and ISVs to accelerate their speed and quality of output by spending less time gathering, organising and cleaning data, and more time deriving predictive insights and backtesting strategies to generate alpha more predictably.
Futures datasets are huge,
Hedge fund consultant PivotalPath has launched a Hedge Fund Index App, a new product designed to solve the issues that limit the usefulness of hedge fund indices.
Institutional investors rely upon these indices for meaningful asset allocation decisions and when evaluating individual funds. Yet the ones offered by leading providers contain widely known systemic issues, leaving investors with limited or even misleading visibility into manager performance. PivotalPath’s Hedge Fund Index App provides the relevant information, context and analytical tools needed to truly understand performance across different funds and strategies.
There are several issues that make the practical use of hedge
With extensive experience working with UK pension funds and insurers, and having gained a deep understanding of their investment challenges, MFS Investment Management (MFS) has added to its global fixed income capabilities by launching a UK buy and maintain credit strategy.
The strategy aims to achieve long-term returns through low turnover and the sustainable capture of credit risk premium.
Kelly Tran, head of UK and Ireland institutional sales, says: “We have seen the increased demand for buy and maintain portfolios from UK DB schemes and insurance companies. Generally, these strategies are used as a component in one of two
IQ-EQ, an Astorg portfolio company, has acquired Greyline Partners (Greyline), a US provider of governance and regulatory compliance solutions for PE, VC, hedge funds and investors.
Greyline is a fast-growing business with a strong commercial and cultural fit for IQ-EQ’s expanding operations in the US. Today, IQ-EQ U.S. employs 500-plus people with plans to significantly grow this number in 2022 thanks to its strong business performance in the US market. The combination of IQ-EQ and Greyline firmly positions IQ-EQ as the leading provider of outsourced business services to the alternative asset industry. This latest acquisition follows the successful acquisitions of
Alternative data specialist QuantCube Technology has launched the the QuantCube real-time GDP Canada Nowcast giving investment firms and hedge funds real-time insight, based on alternative data sources, on whether an event or trend happening in the US economy is affecting Canada.
The latest GDP indicator is part of a series of expansions to its GDP Nowcasts for the main global economies: the US, China, the UK, Japan, and the Eurozone, including France, Germany, Spain, and Italy.
The QuantCube Canada GDP Nowcast enables users to see whether an event or trend happening in the US economy is affecting Canada’s economy,
GMEX MultiHub Limited (GMEX), a new business unit of the GMEX Group, has launched Digital MultiHub (MultiHub), a global cloud-enabled trading and post-trade digital market infrastructure platform which facilitates third-party trading and post-trade services across traditional and digital asset markets.
Delivered through a Platform-as-a-Service, microservices distribution model, MultiHub enables capital markets participants to gain simple access to regulated digital assets and market infrastructure.
Digital assets are becoming increasingly relevant in capital markets portfolios. According to recent research from Fidelity Digital Assets, 84% of US and European institutional investors are interested in purchasing institutional investment products that hold digital assets.
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp has added Copper.co, the institutional gateway to digital asset investing, as an additional custody provider.
Copper’s leading crypto custody solution will allow Bitstamp to offer a new set of digital assets to its customers around the world, starting with Cardano (ADA), now the world’s sixth largest cryptocurrency. Bitstamp’s customers in Europe will be able to start trading Cardano this Friday.
This partnership demonstrates Bitstamp’s commitment to global expansion and marks the continued growth of its customer-centric offerings. As demand increases, Bitstamp continues to provide its users access to the ever expanding market.
With multi-award-winning custody,
Variety Capital has opened an Irish domiciled UCITS investment platform with a fund managed by CKC Capital, an experienced US credit investment team.
The fund has launched with investments from UK and European institutional investors.
The fund aims to replicate the performance of CKC Capital LLC’s flagship fund, CKC Credit Opportunity Master Fund Ltd, launched in 2013 which follows the same strategy and has returned positive performance for 102 out of 103 months since inception.
Graham Loughridge, CEO of Variety Capital, says: “I am very pleased to have launched the Variety Capital ICAV with CKC Capital managing our first fund,
XP Inc, a provider of low-fee financial products and services in Brazil, has acquired a minority stake in Vista Capital, one of the main independent equity and hedge funds managers in Brazil, with over BRZ4.5 billion in Assets Under Management (AUM).
This transaction reinforces XP’s strategy to develop the most complete ecosystem of managers and distributors in Brazil.
Additionally, the development of independent asset managers meets XP’s strategy by contributing to an increase in secondary market liquidity, helping to democratise investment products to more Brazilians.
Vista has a solid performance track record in hedge funds and equity funds, with its
Oaktree Capital Management (Oaktree) has held the final close of Oaktree Opportunities Fund XI and its related vehicles (Opps XI), with total capital commitments of USD15.9 billion.
Opps XI is Oaktree’s largest fund to date, exceeding its original target of USD15 billion.
To date, the Fund has invested or committed to invest approximately 70 per cent of its capital in an attractive mix of opportunities that are diversified across geographies, sectors and asset classes. This swift pace of investment has been made possible by the strategy’s all-weather, broad, and flexible investment charter that allows the Opportunities group to consider
