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Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, has unveiled a new multi-asset strategy which will trade assets that align with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, in a move aimed at further tapping into investor appetite for sustainable investing.
The Lyxor/Bridgewater All Weather Sustainability Fund – which is managed by Lyxor Asset Management and sub-advised by Bridgewater – is built around Bridgewater’s pioneering systematic research process, and will use the hedge fund giant’s “All Weather” asset allocation framework to engineer its portfolio.
Specifically, the UCITS compliant strategy will look to identify and trade a range of public market assets, including equities,
New research from ETP provider GraniteShares shows nearly two out of three professional investors predict shorting of US tech stocks will increase over the next six months with nearly a fifth forecasting a dramatic increase.
Its study with hedge funds, wealth managers, IFAs, fund managers and institutional investors found 63 per cent expect shorting of US tech stocks to increase over the next six months with 18 per cent predicting a dramatic increase.
Just 17 per cent of investors believe the level of shorting will fall over the next six months while 20 per cent believe it will stay the
More than a quarter of decision-makers in buy-side financial firms (28 per cent) cite fragmented and unreliable data management infrastructure that struggles to cope with increasing data volumes as the biggest data management challenge they face, according to the results of a survey by market data integration and analytics solutions provider Alveo.
A further 8 per cent meanwhile, highlighted a problem with IT bandwidth, stating: “Our IT teams are overrun and cannot focus on strategic initiatives or improvements”, according to research conducted by Alveo, the leader in market data integration and analytics solutions for financial services.
Many also report low
Chronicle Software (Chronicle), a provider of low-latency technology solutions for the financial services industry, has expanded Chronicle FIX connectivity providing simplified access to additional pools of FX and cryptocurrency liquidity.
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A London based alternative investment manager with in excess of USD1 billion of assets under management has signed an annual license for Insig AI’s proprietary Data Tool.
This contract win follows successful client testing and enables the client to structure and categorise both proprietary and third-party data and builds upon the Company’s recent success in delivering data science products to Royal London Asset Management.
Insig AI is also pleased to announce strong progress on the development of its ‘Insig ESG’ product; designed to enable asset managers to develop and execute a data-led ESG investing strategy by providing transparent and
Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager, and CoinDesk Indexes, a subsidiary of CoinDesk Inc, have launched the Grayscale Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Fund, a new diversified investment product, and the CoinDesk DeFi Index.
Grayscale DeFi Fund (the Fund) provides investors with exposure to a selection of industry-leading DeFi protocols through a market-capitalisation weighted portfolio designed to track the CoinDesk DeFi Index. The Grayscale DeFi Fund is Grayscale’s fifteenth investment product, and its second diversified fund offering.
“Grayscale continues to focus on creating opportunities for investors to access new, exciting parts of the digital asset ecosystem,” says Grayscale
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) continues to register strong market interest and growth in its Japanese Power Derivatives products. From January until June 2021, a volume of 3,519 GWh was traded in Japanese Power Future contracts. This is more than five times the volume traded in the last year since launch (May – December 2020: 587 GWh).
EEX has firmly established itself as the leading venue for Japan Power Futures trading, holding a 88 per cent exchange market share between January and June 2021. The beginning of the year was characterised by high volatility which led to a trading volume
Hedge funds betting against UK blue chip stocks saw their negative wagers pay off on Monday as investor fears over rising coronavirus cases sent the FTSE 100 tumbling some 2.3 per cent.
Hopes that the easing of most Covid-19 restrictions in England this week – with 19 July having been dubbed ‘Freedom Day’ – would help accelerate the UK’s nascent economic recovery were soured as travel, manufacturing and retail names were all dented.
Travel and tourism-related stocks were among the hardest hit amid continued uncertainty surrounding the UK’s traffic-light quarantine system for travellers, which threatens summer holidays for many. EasyJet
Digital asset investment products saw another quiet week last week, with minimal net inflows totalling USD2.9 million, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows report from CoinShares.
After a few weeks of inflows into bitcoin outflows have now been seen for the last two weeks, with outflows last week totalling USD10.4 million.
Ether saw its third consecutive week of inflows, with last week’s inflows totalling USD11.7 million.
Volumes in bitcoin fell to just 38 per cent of the year-to-date average, totalling USD3.9 billion per day last week.
Man Group has selected corfinancial’s treasury solution, Salerio, to manage the firm’s foreign exchange confirmation, settlement and netting processing.
Man Group uses Salerio to automate the management of securities post-trade processing and is expanding the use of Salerio to incorporate automation of foreign exchange processing. The investment management firm’s international growth has relied increasingly upon Salerio, which automates key middle office processes.
Salerio will also support Man Group’s CLS (Continuous Linked Settlement) netting – a standardised, automated bilateral payment netting service.
Richard Craske, Change Management Specialist at Man Group, said: “We have been a long-term user of Salerio
