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CME Group’s international average daily volume (ADV) reached 5.1 million contracts in Q2 2021, up 6 per cent year on year.
Reflecting all trading done outside North America, this volume was driven by global growth in Agricultural and Interest Rate products, up 30 per cent and 42 per cent respectively. Agricultural products also established record quarterly volumes in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), as well as Asia Pacific and Latin America.
“In the second quarter of this year, we saw strong interest across our international client base, especially in our Agricultural products which established record quarterly volumes,” says William
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LGT Capital Partners has appointed Mark Miller as Head of LGT Capital Partners (UK) Limited succeeding Mark White, CEO at LGT Capital Partners (UK) Ltd. The change is subject to regulatory approval.
Miller joined LGT Capital Partners in June 2020 as Head of UK Business Development from Federated Hermes – International where he was Head of Global Client Group. Miller has previously worked in senior business development roles at Amundi, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management and Fidelity International. In his new role Mark will assume overall responsibility for LGT Capital Partner’s UK office and client business.
White joined LGT Capital Partners
Exchange Data International (EDI), a provider of global security corporate actions, pricing, and reference data services, has partnered with XTAL Strategies, with the aim of supporting XTAL’s new regulated private market benchmark initiative.
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KLS Arete Macro, managed by Ocean Arete Limited from Hong Kong, is celebrating its three-year anniversary this month at the same time as reaching an important milestone with assets under management crossing USD1 billion.
Since the launch of the UCITS, the fund has annualised 8.1 per cent with a volatility of 5.8 per cent. This is consistent with the strategies long term track record of 10.3 per cent annualised return with a 7.3 per cent volatility and low correlation to traditional asset classes, proving to be a great alternative investment.
The KLS Arete Macro Fund launched in July of 2018
Grayscale Investments, a digital currency asset manager and the manager of Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund (OTCQX: GDLC) (the Fund), has announced that the Registration Statement on Form 10 that it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on behalf of the Fund has become effective.
The Fund is Grayscale’s first diversified digital currency investment fund to become an SEC reporting company with its shares registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Exchange Act).
Grayscale also announced today that it has publicly filed three additional Registration Statements on Form 10 with the
IS Prime has created a new spread index swap offering, allowing clients of the ISAM Capital Markets Group to trade indices and oil with variable spreads.
This latest development provides clients with even more competitive pricing and more accurately reflects the market conditions and available liquidity in these products. It is part of the Group’s broader strategy to launch a range of new products, adding further value to brokers, hedge funds and professional trader clients.
Barry Flanigan, Head of Distribution and Liquidity, IS Prime, says: “Traditionally, Liquidity Providers offer fixed spreads on indices and oil but we have seen
Trend-following hedge funds and CTA strategies have dipped slightly in recent days after ending the first half of the year in positive territory, Société Générale’s CTA indices show, but the sector is well-placed to capitalise on commodities and equities trends going forward.
SocGen’s main CTA Index – a daily performance barometer of 20 of the largest managed futures hedge funds’ returns – lost 1.14 per cent in the opening week of July, having earlier ended the first half of 2021 up 6.51 per cent. The benchmark remains up some 5.3 per cent since the start of January.
Similarly, the SG
Digital asset products saw minor outflows totaling USD4 million last week in what was the quietest trading week since October 2020, according to the latest Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report from CoinShares.
Minor outflows were seen in bitcoin totalling USD7 million last week while trading volumes in investment products totalled just USD1.58 billion for the week.
In recent weeks there has been a regional divide in bitcoin inflows with North American providers seeing consistent inflows while their European counterparts have continued to see outflows.
Multi-asset investment products were the most popular last week with inflows totalling USD1.2 million.
EBS, a leading provider of electronic trading platforms and technology services in foreign exchange markets, has launched its next-generation EBS Direct platform.
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