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Tradeweb Markets, a global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets, has completed the first fully electronic institutional Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) swap spread trade.
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PCS Research Group has announced that Murray Stahl is launching “The Cryptocurrency Compendium Compilation”, an institutional research service focused exclusively on the cryptocurrency space.
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As investors look to strengthen portfolio performance amid a shifting economic landscape, a new Barclays study suggests hedge funds now offer “a compelling alternative” to fixed income allocations, and may prove key to bumping up returns as allocators adapt to a “shifting paradigm”.
Barclays’ report – titled ‘The Alternatives’ Alternatives: Hedge Funds as Alternatives to Long-Only Fixed Income’ – analysed more than 2,000 hedge funds. It explored the role played by hedge funds within broader investment portfolios during a number of market environments.
The study found investor sentiment towards long-only fixed income products is growing “significantly negative”, adding that hedge funds offer “a compelling alternative”,
In this wide-ranging Q&A, Arnaud Sarfati, CEO and co-founder of Paris-based quantitative asset manager LFIS Capital, discusses how the firm is tackling ESG implementation in its quant strategies, touching on portfolio constraints, evolving regulation, auditing concerns, and “data exhaustivity”.
Waystone, a provider of institutional governance, risk and compliance services to the asset management industry, has secured a significant investment from Montagu Private Equity.
The investment represents a significant opportunity for Waystone to build upon its current expansion plans and continue to invest in offering its clients an extensive set of global solutions. The investment, which is subject to regulatory approval, will see Montagu take a strategic stake in the business and support the next phase of Waystone’s growth.
The investment will also conclude Waystone’s successful partnership with MML Capital Partners (MML) following their investment in 2019. With MML’s support,
By Ben Axler, CIO and Founder of Spruce Point Capital Management – When I started my investment management firm in 2009 after a career in investment banking, I felt emboldened to fix certain structural problems in the industry I was leaving.
ISITC Europe has launched a Post Trade Forum which brings together the post trade community across the capital markets to drive collaboration, share best practice and action changes to improve operational efficiency.
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Trium Capital, a family office backed independent asset manager, has hired multi-asset investor Toby Hayes. With more than 20 years’ experience in creating and managing multi-asset and alternative strategies, Hayes has built expertise across a wide range of areas, including structural returns, risk premia and factor investing.
In several high-profile roles, Hayes has consistently delivered uncorrelated returns to investors. Prior to joining Trium Capital, he was head of multi-asset at Fortem Capital, where he launched and managed the Fortem Capital Alternative Growth Fund. The strategy was particularly notable for its outperformance during the height of the pandemic-induced market sell-off –
Alternative asset manager Cheyne Capital Management (UK) (Cheyne) has opened a new office in Paris – the firm’s fifth office in Europe and its eighth globally.
Stuart Fiertz, Co-Founder, President & Head of Responsible Investment at Cheyne Capital, says: “Since 2018, our private credit investment teams have continued to see more and more interesting opportunities in Europe and particularly in France, so opening an office in Paris was the natural next step. Being in close proximity to those we finance is important to us and we look forward to growing our presence in the country further.”
Over the past four
TORA, provider of the industry’s most advanced cloud-based order and execution management system (OEMS) is integrating the Glimpse Markets buy-side data sharing tool for fixed income into its multi-asset platform.
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