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In a drive to better serve its clients and increase transparency and understanding of private markets, Preqin — a specialist in alternative assets data, analytics and insights — has acquired Colmore, a private markets technology, services and administration business.
Preqin supports more than 110,000 professionals globally in raising capital, sourcing deals and investments and understanding performance by providing them with the most comprehensive alternative assets data and insights. Colmore’s key solutions include portfolio monitoring, analytics, fee tracking and validation, and fund administration services for its LP and allocator clients. The rapidly growing business monitors more than 3,000 private market funds
Global macro hedge funds remain well-placed to benefit from investment themes arising from fragmented recoveries and diverging macroeconomic policies in the coming months – despite recent slim returns and allocator outflows over the summer.
Macro strategies have advanced 7.82 per cent so far in 2021, according to data provider BarclayHedge, after managers posted a narrow gain of 0.19 per cent in July. In comparison, the broader Barclay Hedge Fund Index – which measures average industry performance across strategy classes – has risen almost 9 per cent year-to-date, BarclayHedge said this week.
Macro managers take long and short positions across a
Iress is transitioning its Execution Management System (EMS) to its cloud platform as part of its trading technology strategy for the UK.
The last twelve months have seen exponential growth in usage of Iress’ EMS, in terms of both new clients and trading volume, and the transition to cloud enables Iress to deploy new services and seamlessly scale on demand.
As a result, firms will be able to increase or decrease trading capacity as the market and their business dictates, and to implement new services and functionality with shorter development cycles. It will also drive continued improvements to the efficiency
Options, a provider of cloud-enabled managed services to the global capital markets, has partnered with Quercus Technology Group, enabling cloud and application optimisation services for industry leading Tier 1 electronic trading applications and Capital Markets solutions.
The partnership creates a unique offering that combines domain knowledge and subject matter expertise across fully managed, cloud agnostic environments and application specific configuration, customisation and optimisation. The resulting solution is one specifically designed to drive value through reduced time to market, minimised total cost of ownership and maximised return on investment.
Options’ Senior Vice President, Tim Yockel, says: “We’ve been providing the financial
Managed futures hedge funds ended July in positive territory, with cryptocurrency-based strategies fuelling the rise, new data published by BarclayHedge shows.
The Barclay CTA Index, which tracks the performance of more than 400 commodity trading advisors and managed futures hedge funds, added 0.37 per cent last month, and has now advanced some 4.91 per cent in the seven-month period since the start of 2021.
All trend-following sub-sectors ended July in the black, with Ben Crawford, head of research at BarclayHedge, observing how the managed futures industry withstood rising uncertainty “admirably” during a bumpy July.
“Despite concerns over the Covid-19 Delta
In a series of four articles for Hedgeweek in recent months, senior executives at Waystone provided expert analysis of the challenges and opportunities facing fund domiciles and asset managers at a time of change across the fund management sector in Europe and beyond.
Waystone, the global governance adviser, third-party management company and provider of specialist services to the asset management industry was formed by the merger earlier this year of DMS, MontLake and MDO. In its first article in October 2020, Why Cross-Border Fund Domiciles are transforming into Fund Management Hubs, Managing Director of Client Solutions, Daniel Forbes explored the post-Brexit
After the GameStop/Reddit short squeeze saga dealt bruising losses to several hedge funds, and global stock markets continue to be shaken by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Equities section is set to be one of the most closely-watched categories at this year’s Hedgeweek Americas Awards.
The month of June was characterised by a positive trend on the stock markets, with the S&P 500 registering a rather strong performance (2.33 per cent), its fifth consecutive month of profits, leading to 15 per cent cumulative increase since the beginning of the year.
Market implied volatility decreased, for the fourth consecutive month, to 15.83 per cent, returning to the levels observed in 2019, before the coronavirus crisis. This value is also much lower than its long-term average performance (around 21 per cent).
On the bond market, a mixed situation prevailed as regular bonds posted negative return (-0.30 per
First Sentier Investors, a global asset management group, has integrated with FlowLink via multi-asset execution and order management systems specialist FlexTrade’s FlexTRADER EMS.
CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, has announced that Micro WTI Crude Oil futures volume surpassed one million contracts on Friday, 6 August, 2021.
“Since launching just a month ago, we continue to see strong interest across the globe for our smaller-sized Micro WTI Crude Oil contract,” says Peter Keavey, Global Head of Energy. “Our benchmark WTI futures have always been the market’s choice for managing crude oil exposure, and the uptick we are seeing in new customers utilising the Micro WTI Crude oil futures demonstrates the value in the robust transparency and price discovery that
