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Abraham Trading Company (ATC), a hedge fund manager with a 33-year investment track record, has launched its first mutual fund today. The firm converted its private hedge fund, the Abraham Fortress Fund LP, into an SEC-registered mutual fund as of Thursday, 14 October.
“Every investor deserves institutional-quality investments,” remarks Salem Abraham, ATC president. “As a company with over three decades in the investment space, the mutual fund conversion allows us to share our 33 years of experience with both retail and institutional investors alike.”
The firm began in January 1990 as a commodity futures investment company, building a managed
Umbrella Network, the decentralised Layer-2 oracle solution, has launched its arbitrage-free pricing model for crypto derivatives. This new offering aims to bring arbitrage-free information for option pricing to the crypto ecosystem, in order to provide users with more comprehensive sets of real-time pricing data.
At launch, arbitrage-free pricing will be available on both Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, and will offer complete sets of options data for both BTC and ETH, containing the underlying crypto asset, expiry data, call price, put price, and implied volatility. Umbrella Network is currently including 660 new pairs covering 220 options instruments, for more profitable
Massar Capital Management has launched a new discretionary macro hedge fund strategy which aims to capitalise on directional trading opportunities across a broad set of global markets.
StoneX Group Inc’s Prime Services Division has launched a new Prime Direct offerings which leverages the firm’s technology to bridge the void between full-service Prime Brokerage services offered to larger managers and discount brokerage options accessible to emerging investors.
Providing family offices, hedge funds, and other professional clients with the same institutional routing and systems offered by full-service Prime brokerages, but in a direct-to-client format that includes the StoneX Equities Pro platform which is available in web, mobile, and desktop formats that can be used interchangeably.
Ben Brown, Managing Director of Business Development for Prime Services at StoneX, says:
Sir Christopher Hohn’s TCI Fund Management has set out a strategic plan to overhaul Canadian National Railway which it says would put the Montreal-headquartered freight railway company “back on track.”
The London-based activist hedge fund this week outlined sweeping proposals for a “high-quality, experienced board, a world-class railroader as CEO and a long-term plan for sustainable growth.”
The plan also includes several board changes and a new CEO, four immediate key priorities, and a six-point plan for sustainable long-term growth.
In Monday’s announcement, TCI said CN’s current board had been responsible for “multiple corporate governance failures”, which has led to
Global pioneering infrastructure and connectivity provider, BSO, is to upgrade its Tokyo to London and Tokyo to Singapore connectivity routes.
The routes are available from November to new and existing customers, offering market-leading connectivity between the three major equities and FX hubs.
Achieving fast connectivity between London and Tokyo has long been a challenge for telco providers and so this upgrade solves an important problem. Tokyo is a key section of the FX arbitrage triangle between Europe and Asia and the revamped routes builds on BSO’s award-winning global trading network to deliver more resilient and even lower latency networks.
TMX Group has launched the new TSX Market on Close (MOC), a facility designed to enable investors to source liquidity and participate in trades at the closing price.
The new features of the enhanced MOC facility are aimed at providing clients with an improved trading experience, and delivering benefits to the broader Canadian capital markets ecosystem with increased efficiency in determining end-of-day valuations for eligible Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and select TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) listed issues.
“We are proud to introduce the new and improved TSX MOC, an adaptive response to industry needs and a significant step forward
BTIG has hired several industry leaders and senior product specialists to launch a new Structured Product business from within its Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities division.
Alejandro Feely, a twenty-year industry veteran, will lead the new business unit. He joins BTIG as a Managing Director and the Head of Structured Products. Additionally, Conor O’Callaghan, Michael Murray and Emily Brown join BTIG as part of the Structured Product sales and trading team.
BTIG Structured Product professionals will be focused on secondary trading as well as facilitating new issue for a wide range of products and client segments including banks, hedge funds,
Options Technology, a provider of Capital Markets services, backed by Abry Partners, is to acquire ACTIV Financial. The financial terms of the agreement have not been disclosed.
As a long-term provider of global capital markets services including cloud-enabled managed solutions, global trading infrastructure and telemetry analytics services, this deal reinforces Options’ commitment to continually add value and optimise their offering to capital markets firms.
ACTIV Financial is a global provider of real-time, delayed, historical and enriched multi-asset financial market data and offer a wide range of industry-leading solutions in a true Enterprise data platform. The combination of Options’ core services
Digital asset investment products saw inflows totalling USD80 million last week, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Total assets under management are now USD72.3 billion, their highest level on record.
Bitcoin saw the largest inflows, totalling USD70 million, marking the 5th consecutive week of inflows.
Polkadot and cardano saw continued inflows totalling USD3.6m and USD2.7 million respectively, while ether saw minor outflows totalling USD1 million.
